Patent ID: 8170123
Filing Date: 2012-05-01
Classification: G06F,H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method for transmitting bandwidth intensive media streams between a local host and a remote rendering device comprising: identifying a media stream as an unaccelerated stream that is being rendered locally on the local host; capturing bitmap content for the identified media stream after the media stream has been rendered on the local host; detecting existence of a media acceleration channel associated with a remoting protocol for transmitting desktop information between the local host and the remote rendering device; identifying an encoding scheme supported on both the local host and the remote rendering device; encoding the bitmap content for the identified media stream using the identified encoding scheme; transmitting the encoded bitmap content for the identified media stream to the remote rendering device using the media acceleration channel associated with the remoting protocol; decoding, at the remote rendering device, the encoded bitmap content for the identified media stream using the identified encoding scheme to provide decoded media content; and displaying the decoded media content on the remote rendering device.