Patent ID: 9369748
Filing Date: 2016-06-14
CPC Classification: H04L,H04N,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method of integrating content with a hospitality media system having a plurality of media devices located in a plurality of rooms of a hospitality establishment and coupled to a media system controller, wherein the media devices and the media system controller are preconfigured to together 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 via Internet; allowing a user of a particular room, via a user interface screen displayed to the user, to configure the hospitality media system to integrate remote media content stored on a remote device, wherein the remote device is at a location external to the hospitality media system and accessible via the Internet; confirming, via the user interface screen, 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 hospitality media system; when the user agrees to add the additional fee, charging the user the additional fee, setting a virtual connection established over the Internet between the media system controller and the remote device to have the upgraded bandwidth by a bandwidth controller, and communicating with the remote device via the virtual connection at the upgraded bandwidth in order to transfer the remote media content from the remote device to the hospitality media system and provide the remote media content to the streamer; querying an in-room media device table by the media system controller in order to determine one or more in-room media devices that are located in the particular room; and streaming the remote media content from the streamer by default to only the one or more in-room media devices located in the particular room.