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Integrating content on remote device accessible via internet with hospitality media system

  • US 9,661,366 B2
  • Filed: 05/12/2016
  • Issued: 05/23/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/17/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of integrating content with a media system having a plurality of media devices located in a plurality of rooms of a hospitality establishment, wherein the media devices are operable to provide entertainment to users in the rooms;

  • the method comprising;

    streaming original media content available at the hospitality establishment from a streamer to any of the media devices in response to selection of playback of the original media content on one or more of the media devices;

    wherein the original media content is a) provided to the streamer from a device on premise at the hospitality establishment and b) streamed from the streamer to the media devices, both without traversing a wide area network;

    dynamically generating a passkey;

    storing in a database authentication data correlating the passkey to a particular room, the database further storing authentication data respectively correlating other passkeys to other rooms;

    wherein the passkey for the particular room is also displayed on a display device in the particular room, and after being displayed in the particular room the passkey is entered into a user interface of a mobile device operated by a user of the particular room;

    establishing data communications with the mobile device and receiving the passkey from the mobile device;

    querying the database to find the particular room correlated in the database with the passkey received from the mobile device, whereby the mobile device is confirmed to be associated with the particular room;

    allowing the user, via the user interface of the mobile device, to configure the media system to integrate remote media content stored on a remote device, wherein the remote device is at a location external to the media system and is accessible via the wide area network;

    confirming, via the user interface of the mobile device, that the user agrees to pay an additional fee for an upgraded bandwidth to transfer the remote media content from the remote device to the media system over the wide area network; and

    when the user agrees to the additional fee, charging the user the additional fee, establishing a connection via the wide area network between the remote device and an in-room media device located within the particular room, setting the connection to have the upgraded bandwidth by a bandwidth controller, and communicating with the remote device via the connection at the upgraded bandwidth in order to transfer the remote media content from the remote device to the in-room media device for playback.

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