SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING HOME NETWORK DEVICES USING MULTICAST ENABLED REMOTE CONTROLS
First Claim
1. A home network control mechanism for a home network comprising:
- a multicast enabled remote control configured to aggregate, store, and display audio/video multicast output streams, and to redirect the audio/video multicast output streams to one or more audio/video network input devices capable of receiving audio/video multicast output streams, and to control audio/video and non audio/video home network devices in the home network,wherein the audio/video multicast output streams are generated by at least one of a plurality of audio/video network output devices in the home network and a home gateway.
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Abstract
A system, method, and article of manufacture for controlling home network devices using a multicast enabled remote control. The system includes a plurality of home network devices capable of receiving and/or transmitting multicast input and/or output signals and a home gateway to receive audio/video signals generated outside of the home and to transform the audio/video signals into multicast output signals. The system also includes a multicast enabled remote control to detect, aggregate, store and display all audio/video multicast output signals on the multicast enabled remote control, to enable a user to redirect an audio/video multicast output signal to one or more of the plurality of home network devices capable of receiving multicast input signals, and to control the plurality of home network devices capable of receiving and/or transmitting multicast input and/or output signals. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
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17 Claims
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1. A home network control mechanism for a home network comprising:
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a multicast enabled remote control configured to aggregate, store, and display audio/video multicast output streams, and to redirect the audio/video multicast output streams to one or more audio/video network input devices capable of receiving audio/video multicast output streams, and to control audio/video and non audio/video home network devices in the home network, wherein the audio/video multicast output streams are generated by at least one of a plurality of audio/video network output devices in the home network and a home gateway. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. A method for controlling network devices comprising:
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detecting and aggregating, by a remote device, transmissions and content sources in home network; storing, by the remote device, the detected content in a local storage; and displaying, based on a mode setting of the remote device, a configuration for the content, wherein when the mode setting of the remote device is in a redirect mode, the display comprising a list of audio/video content addresses and associated identities for each audio/video content address and a list of network input devices capable of utilizing audio/video content on the content addresses;
wherein a user is enabled to select one or more audio/video content addresses and at least one network input device on the remote device to enable viewing of the selected content on the at least one network input device. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A machine readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon, the instructions when executed on a processor, cause the processor to:
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detect and aggregate, by a remote device, transmissions and content sources in home network; store by the remote device, the detected content in a local storage; and display, based on a mode setting of the remote device, a configuration for the content, wherein when the mode setting of the remote device is in a redirect mode, the display comprising a list of audio/video content addresses and associated identities for each audio/video content address and a list of network input devices capable of utilizing audio/video content on the content addresses;
wherein a user is enabled to select one or more audio/video content addresses and at least one network input device on the remote device to enable viewing of the selected content on the at least one network input device. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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