MULTIMEDIA PROCESSING RESOURCE WITH DISTRIBUTED SETTINGS

• US 20100161801A1
• Filed: 12/23/2008
• Published: 06/24/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/23/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Pratt, James, Belz, Steven M., Sullivan, Marc
• Application Number:
  US12/342,988
• Publication Number:
  US 20100161801A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/226
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/173 using an interconnection network, e.g. matrix, shuffle, pyramid, star, snowflake
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/485 End-user interface for client configuration
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6547 comprising parameters, e.g. for client setup

Abstract

Presentation settings for a multimedia processing resource (MPR) are distributed to other MPRs. Example presentation settings include brightness, contrast, and tint. Security credentials may be required before a receiving MPR accepts presentation settings from a delivering MPR. MPR presentation settings may be delivered over a wired or wireless local area network, for example.

Claims

1. A multimedia processing resource (MPR) comprising:

a processor;

a control interface for receiving a presentation setting;

a network interface for communicating with a secondary MPR; and

a presentation settings module embedded in a tangible computer readable medium and executable by the processor to communicate the presentation setting to the secondary MPR.

2. The MPR of claim 1, further comprising:

a permission module embedded in the tangible computer readable medium and executable by the processor to communicate security credentials to the secondary MPR.

3. The MPR of claim 1, wherein said presentation setting is at least one of contrast and brightness.

4. The MPR of claim 1, wherein said presentation setting is at least one of tint, sharpness, and color.

5. The MPR of claim 1, wherein said presentation setting is at least one of aspect ratio and zoom level.

6. The MPR of claim 1, wherein said presentation setting is a closed caption setting.

7. The MPR of claim 1, wherein said presentation setting is a predetermined combination of presentation settings.

8. The MPR of claim 1, wherein the network interface is home phoneline networking alliance (HPNA) compatible.

9. The MPR of claim 1, wherein the network interface is Ethernet compatible.

10. The MPR of claim 1, wherein the network interface is wireless Ethernet compatible.

11. The MPR of claim 1, wherein the a control interface is a remote control interface.

12. The MPR of claim 1, wherein the network interface is a radio frequency interface.

13. A process for distributing presentation settings, the process comprising:

receiving a presentation setting at a primary multimedia processing resource (MPR);

storing the presentation setting to a tangible computer readable medium; and

transmitting the presentation setting from the primary MPR to a secondary MPR.

14. The process of claim 13, wherein said transmitting includes transmitting the presentation setting over an Ethernet compatible interface.

15. The process of claim 13, wherein said transmitting includes transmitting the presentation setting wirelessly.

16. The process of claim 13, wherein said transmitting includes transmitting the presentation setting through a home phoneline networking alliance network.

17. The process of claim 13, wherein said receiving includes receiving user input from a remote control device.

18. The process of claim 13, further comprising:

transmitting permission data from the primary MPR to the secondary MPR.

19. The process of claim 13, wherein said presentation setting is at least one of contrast and brightness.

20. A service for distributing presentation settings, comprising:

receiving user input indicative of a presentation setting for a primary multimedia processing resource (MPR);

storing the presentation setting;

formatting a primary display based on the presentation setting; and

responsive to further user input to distribute the presentation setting, transmitting the presentation setting to a secondary MPR;

formatting a secondary display based on the transmitted presentation setting.

21. The service of claim 20, wherein the presentation setting is at least one of brightness and contrast.

22. The service of claim 20, wherein the presentation setting is a predetermined combination of presentation settings.

23. The service of claim 20, wherein said transmitting includes transmitting the presentation setting via a home phoneline networking alliance compatible network.

24. The service of claim 20, wherein transmitting the presentation setting to the secondary MPR is responsive to determining that valid permission data to receive the presentation setting has been received at the secondary MPR.

25. The service of claim 20, wherein said transmitting is by a radio frequency communication link.

26. The service of claim 25, wherein the radio frequency communication link is on a wireless network.