Patent ID: 7876779

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: one or more first adapters, each of the one or more first adapters being a signal-in adapter adapted to transform a source signal from a source device into a signal command in a system format; one or more second adapters, each of the one or more second adapters being a signal-out adapter adapted to transform the signal command in the system format into an output signal for an output device; one or more third adapters, each of the one or more third adapters being a control-in adapter adapted to transform an input signal from a control device into a control command in the system format; one or more fourth adapters, each of the one or more fourth adapters being a control-out adapter adapted to transform the control command in the system system format into a control signal to control a one of the source device and the output device; and a processor operatively coupled to and adapted to orchestrate communications between the one or more adapters and adapted to provide signals to generate at least one user interface for use by a user to control the one or more adapters and their operatively coupled devices.