Patent ID: 9241028
Filing Date: 2016-01-19
CPC Classification: G08C,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: receiving, by a computing device, registration information for a first device, the registration information comprising a device type of the first device; accessing, by the computing device, configuration information corresponding to the device type of the first device, the configuration information comprising an indication of a first protocol that the device type of the first device uses to communicate; receiving, by the computing device, a first status of the first device using the first protocol and a second status of a second device; and in response to determining that modification of a manner in which content is presented by a multimedia presentation device is allowed, sending, by the computing device to the multimedia presentation device, an instruction to modify the manner in which the content is presented based on the first status of the first device and the second status of the second device.