Patent ID: 7072056

Claim:
A digital information translation and sending device for sending data to a targeted destination device, comprising: a sending device including memory and a communication port, the communication port operative to send digital data in a first data format compatible with the sending device via a first communications protocol; and a gateway device including processing circuitry, memory, and a communication port, the communication port and processing circuitry operative to convert the digital data from the first data format to a second data format compatible with a destination device and send the data using a second communications protocol, the existence of the targeted destination device is determined by broadcasting a message to at least one associated destination device through the gateway device, wherein the sending device is configured to send the digital data in the first data format to the gateway device after receiving an indication of the availability of the targeted destination device from the gateway device, wherein the sending device comprises a look-up table comprising a plurality of destination addresses and destination device types, the existence of the targeted destination device being determined by using the look-up table, wherein the data is received by the gateway from the sending device and the data is converted to the destination format compatible with an identified destination device type.