Patent ID: 7812832

Claim:
A method for operating at least one of a display and/or a display adaptor, comprising: identifying an image data signal format associated with a first image data interface; identifying an image data signal format associated with a second image data interface, wherein a data structure for the image data signal format associated with the first image data interface has an arrangement which is incompatible with a data structure for the image data signal format associated with the second image data interface; receiving a preferred data structure from the display and/or the display adaptor, the preferred data structure comprising information regarding capabilities of the display and/or the display adaptor and selected, from a format descriptor comprising the preferred data structure, in accordance with a priority scheme based on a priority designator associated with the format descriptor; performing a selection of one of the first image data interface and the second image data interface based on the preferred data structure; and converting, at the at least one of the display and/or the display adaptor, at least one of the image data signal format associated with the first image data interface and/or the image data signal format associated with the second image data interface.