Patent ID: 8281343

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of wirelessly transmitting video content between a computing device and display device, the method comprising: receiving a request to display, at the display device, video content from the computing device, wherein a first wired data connection is established between the display device and a receiver unit that includes a first wireless transceiver component and an output port, wherein a second wired data connection is established between the computing device and a transmitter unit that comprises a dongle communicably connected to the computing device and that includes a second wireless transceiver component and a memory, wherein the transmitter unit is pre-paired with the receiver unit in a walled-garden configuration such that the transmitter unit and the receiver unit are preconfigured to, without any end-user configuration, perform two-way wireless communications with each other and not with any other transmitter unit and not with any other receiver unit, in order to transmit the video content from the computing device to the display device, wherein the video content is received at the transmitter unit and from the computing device via the first wired data connection; wirelessly transmitting the video content from the transmitter unit to the receiver unit by operation of one or more computer processors, wherein the video content is transmitted from the receiver unit to the display device via the second wired data connection, responsive to the request, wherein the transmitter unit is configured to operate in: (i) a mass storage mode when the transmitter unit is first communicably connected to the computing device, to facilitate the computing device accessing an application stored on the transmitter unit and (ii) a transmitter mode to facilitate transmitting the video content from the computing device to the receiver unit; wherein the transmitter unit is optionally configured to dismount itself as a mass storage device of the computing device, when switching from the mass storage mode to the transmitter mode; wherein the receiver unit is configured to operate in: (i) a wireless communications learning mode to pre-pair with the transmitter unit via a shared code; (ii) a processing mode to scale the video content from a first resolution to a second resolution different from the first resolution; and (iii) an overlay mode to effect overlaying a visual indication that the video content is available from the transmitter unit.