Patent ID: 9122808
Filing Date: 2015-09-01
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A media server configured to provide media content to a plurality of diverse media devices over a network in diverse formats native to media decoders of the diverse media devices, comprising: a media directory stored on the media server, the media directory including a plurality of local media sources stored locally on the media server and a media list that identifies local media content stored in the plurality of local media sources and remote media content that is stored remotely from the media server and accessible to the media server over a network; a server application that executes on the media server, the server application being configured to: generate a graphical user interface (GUI) display indicative of the local and remote media content identified in the media list, and responsive to selection of media content by a user, present the GUI to said user, and provide media content selected by said user through the GUI to the media decoder of a selected media device of said plurality of diverse media devices selected by said user in a format native to the media decoder of the selected media device; and an audio-visual system that executes on the media server, the audio-visual system including a media controller, the media controller being configured to locate the selected media content based upon a storage location of the selected media content identified in the media list and to provide the selected media content to the selected media device in a format native to the media decoder of said selected media device.