Patent ID: 8237624

Claim:
A daisy chain supporting source device comprising: (a) a plurality of real or virtual video stream data generators each structured to formulate video stream data for serial transmission as a burst of plural serial signals over a corresponding plurality of egress serial data links; (b) a data packer that packages said formulate video stream data for serial transmission as a burst of plural serial signals over the corresponding plurality of egress serial data links; (c) a plurality of video data stream control units each coupled to a respective one of said real or virtual video stream data generators and structured to control the formulation of said video stream data for serial transmission so that the formulation is compatible with a target display monitor that is intended to display an image or a part of an image represented by the video data stream, the video data stream control units being programmable so as support different ones of target display monitors, wherein the video data stream control unit further embedding a multi-device identification (MDID) into the video data stream to the specific target display monitor from the different ones of target display monitors having a data processing unit for matching the MDID; and (d) a source side policy maker structured to retrieve local Display Port Configuration Data (DPCD) data and local Extended Display Identification Data (EDIP) data from a plurality of daisy chain connected monitor units and to store the retrieved DPCD data and EDIP data in said second plurality of video data stream control units.