Patent ID: 8418206
Filing Date: 2013-04-09
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A method for automatically assigning one or more devices among a plurality of devices in a user's media network as a destination for media content, the method comprising: receiving user inputs defining a rule for each of the plurality of devices in the user's media network, wherein each rule includes an identification of its associated device and at least one condition that must be satisfied by media content, received at a future time, for the identified device to be assigned as a destination device for the media content, wherein the at least one condition comprises at least one attribute that must be associated with the media content; receiving a user input identifying media content; in response to receiving the media content at the future time, automatically determining which one of the plurality of devices is associated with a rule that is satisfied by the identified media content by comparing the at least one condition of each rule associated with each of the plurality of devices to attributes of the identified media content, in response to determining the rule is satisfied by the identified media content, automatically assigning the determined device associated with the satisfied rule as the destination of the identified media content, and in response to determining the rule fails to be satisfied by the identified media content for any of the plurality of devices, automatically assigning a default device as the destination of the identified media content.