Home network server
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1. An article comprising:
- a storage medium comprising machine-readable instructions stored thereon to;
execute a discoverable home network transcoder server to communicatively couple to a media server to receive media signals from the media server, to convert the media signals to a format compatible with more than one media renderers, and to transmit the converted signals to the more than one media renderers.
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Abstract
A method and system for a discoverable transcoder server to communicatively couple to a media server to receive media signals from the media server. The transcoder server transparently converts the media signals to a format compatible with at least one media renderer, and the transcoder server transmits the converted signals to the at least one media renderer.
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1. An article comprising:
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a storage medium comprising machine-readable instructions stored thereon to;
execute a discoverable home network transcoder server to communicatively couple to a media server to receive media signals from the media server, to convert the media signals to a format compatible with more than one media renderers, and to transmit the converted signals to the more than one media renderers. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. A system comprising:
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a home network media server that provides signals representing media content;
at least one home network media renderer communicatively coupled to the home network media server that receives the signals representing the media content;
a discoverable home network transcoder server communicatively coupled to receive the signals representing the media content from the home network media server, to convert the signals representing the media content to a format compatible with the at least one home network media renderer, and to transmit the converted signals to the at least one home network media renderer; and
at least one antenna for communicating between the discoverable home network transcoder server and the at least one home network media renderer. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A home network transcoder server comprising:
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an input for receiving media signals from a media server in the home network;
circuitry for transcoding the media signals received at the input;
an output for providing transcoded signals back to the media server, the circuitry to transparently convert the media signals to a format compatible with at least one media renderer, and the circuitry to transmit the converted signals to the at least one media renderer. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14)
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15. A method comprising:
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incorporating a home network media renderer by a client of a home network, the client being a module in a web browser having a network application program that supports a first media file format for the home network media renderer;
encoding the home network media renderer in the first media file format to support media files of the first media file format;
requesting from a media server with the network application program of the client a media file of a second media file format; and
recognizing with a discoverable home network transcoder server that the media file is of the second media file format and converting the home network media renderer of the network application program to the second media file format prior to providing the media file to the web browser module of the client. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18)
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19. A method comprising:
emulating a discoverable home network transcoder server for communicatively coupling to a media server to receive media signals from the media server, to transparently convert the media signals to a format compatible with at least one media renderer, and to transmit the converted signals to the at least one media renderer. - View Dependent Claims (20)
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