Patent ID: 11910188
Assignee: SYNDEFENSE CORP.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 7:
8. A system to communicate broadcast media content between a media controller and a plurality of media devices, the system comprising:
a communications network;
a media controller including:
a network interface to communicatively couple the controller to the communications network; and
one or more processors to receive broadcast media content from one or more broadcast media sources, to generate a list of the broadcast media sources having broadcast media content according to media processing capabilities of a plurality of multimedia devices, to provide the respective generated list to each of the one or more media devices, and in response to receiving a selection of one of the broadcast media sources from the one or more of the multimedia devices, to provide a corresponding list of broadcast media content receivable from the selected broadcast media source at each of the one or more multimedia devices, to stream broadcast media content to each of the multimedia player devices at which a selection from the list of broadcast media content is performed, the broadcast media content being streamed to each of multimedia devices according to the media processing capabilities received therefrom, and to display a multimedia content control user interface at each of the multimedia devices in which broadcast media content is being streamed; and

a plurality of multimedia devices each configured to initiate a connection to the media controller, to exchange the media processing capabilities with the media controller after establishing a connection, to receive a first input selecting one of the broadcast media sources provided on the list of broadcast media sources, to receive a second input selecting a broadcast media content from the list of broadcast media content provided thereat, and to receive the selected broadcast media content together with a multimedia content control user interface.