Patent ID: 9430177
Filing Date: 2016-08-30
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method of multicasting multimedia streaming content to a plurality of WFD sink devices in a Wireless Fidelity Display (WFD) network, comprising: setting up by a WFD source device a WFD connection for wirelessly communicating with the plurality of WFD sink devices in a WFD network; broadcasting by the WFD source device a WFD capability request frame to the plurality of WFD sink devices over the WFD connection; receiving by the WFD source device a WFD capability response frame from each of the plurality of WFD sink devices in response to the WFD capability request frame, wherein each WFD capability response frame comprises capability information and an audio and video intent value of a respective WFD sink device of the plurality of WFD sink devices, wherein the capability information includes information indicating whether the respective WFD sink device is able to render audio or video data; establishing by the WFD source device a WFD session with multiple WFD sink devices among the plurality of WFD sink devices based on the capability information and the audio and video intent value from respective WFD capability response frames from the multiple WFD sink devices; and streaming by the WFD source device multimedia content to the multiple WFD sink devices during the WFD session wherein establishing the WFD session with multiple WFD sink devices comprises: