Patent ID: 9634854
Date: 2017-04-25
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method of sharing a function between devices via a network, the method comprising: receiving, by a first device, an instruction from a user to play multimedia content, selecting, by the first device, from among a plurality of devices connected to the network, a second device that is capable of processing the multimedia content by at least one of encoding the multimedia content in a format supported by the first device and decoding the multimedia content; transmitting the multimedia content with information indicating that processing to be performed by the second device is one of the encoding and the decoding the multimedia content, from the first device to the second device via the network; and receiving, by the first device, the processed multimedia content from the second device via the network, wherein the first device selects the second device and transmits the multimedia content to the second device when the first device is unable to play the multimedia content, and wherein the processed multimedia content is playable by the first device.