SEAMLESS TRANSFER OF MEDIA STREAMS

• US 20110295974A1
• Filed: 05/26/2011
• Published: 12/01/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 05/27/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Smsc Holdings Sarl
• Original Assignee: BridgeCo, Inc. (Microchip Technology Incorporated)
• Inventors: Kashef, Hooman, Subramaniam, Ramanathan, Sheridan, Gene
• Granted Patent: US 8,683,007 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/217
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1073 Registration or de-registration
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1094 Inter-user-equipment sessions transfer or sharing

Abstract

The transfer of media transmitted from a media provider from a first rendering device to a second includes establishing a network connection between the media provider and the second rendering device based on a network location and session context information. A desired transmission duplication of the media is determined such that the duplication will prevent substantial interruption of the rendering of the media as experienced by a user listening to both of the rendering devices, and that desired transmission duplication is sent to both the first rendering device and the second rendering device. The transmission is continued from the media provider to the second rendering device.

Claims

1. A method for transferring a rendering of media from a first rendering device to a second rendering device based on media transmitted from a media provider, the method comprising:

providing a network location of the second rendering device;

providing a session context pertaining to a network connection between the first rendering device and the media provider to the said second rendering device;

establishing a network connection between the media provider and the second rendering device based on the network location and the session context;

determining a desired transmission duplication of the media to prevent substantial interruption of the rendering of the media;

transmitting the desired transmission duplication of the media from the media provider to the first rendering device and the second rendering device; and

continuing transmission of the media from the media provider to the second rendering device.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the provision of the network location of the second rendering device is provided from the first rendering device.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein the provision of the network location of the second rendering device is provided from the first rendering device in response to a trigger event.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising stopping transmission of the media from the media provider to the first rendering device after transmission of at the desired transmission duplication of the media.