Patent ID: 9559957
Date: 2017-01-31
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04N,H04W

Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: communicating, at a first source device, a user configured policy setting to a second source device, the user configured policy setting indicating that the first source device has a higher priority than the second source device, the first source device and the second source device configured to stream media content over a home network to audio visual (AV) devices; receiving, at the first source device, a request to stream media content to a first AV device using network bandwidth of the home network; determining that there is an insufficient amount of the network bandwidth to stream the media content to the first AV device, the insufficient amount of the network bandwidth caused by the second source using the network bandwidth to stream additional media content to a second AV device; and transmitting a message, from the first source device directly to the second source device over the home network, the message directing the second source device to yield at least a portion of the network bandwidth being used to stream the additional media content to the second AV device based on the first source device having a higher priority than the second source device; and streaming the media content to the first media device over the home network using the network bandwidth yielded by the second source device.