Patent ID: 7995608
Filing Date: 2011-08-09
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. Method for automatically setting up data connections between network subscriber stations in a network of distributed stations, where the network contains at least one recording appliance, a data source appliance and a data sink appliance, comprising the following steps: user-activated selection of a user interface for the recording appliance on a user interface appliance; source checking for an existing digital data streaming connections which has been set up for the data sink appliance or the user interface appliance in the network; identifying via the user interface the data source appliance in the network that is streaming said digital data over the existing digital data connection to the data sink appliance station; automatically setting up a point-to-point connection between the data source appliance, for which a connection to the data sink appliance or to the user interface appliance has been set up, and the recording appliance in order to assist in the implementation of an instant-recording function on the recording appliance upon selection of a recording function, wherein the recording appliance starts recording the digital data stream coming from the data source appliance after the new point-to-point connection has been established, and said appliances are linked and communicate said streamed digital data to each other only through a common bus that is at least one of; wired and wireless.