Patent ID: 7689095

Claim:
An electronic device system comprising: a plurality of audiovisual playback devices; a plurality of audiovisual output devices capable of outputting desired audiovisual content and having an output device identifying means, each audiovisual output device including a respective user recognition apparatus; a bus establishing a physical connection among said playback devices and output devices; and a controller capable of controlling the playback devices and the output devices physically connected to said bus, the controller controlling the output devices according to the respective output device identifying means, wherein the controller includes an infrared transmitter and a wireless transmitter, wherein the controller provides two signals, the wireless transmitter provides a first signal enabling a user to select audiovisual content from any one of the playback devices and the infrared transmitter provides a second signal to cause identification of a selected one of the output devices to establish communication with the selected playback device, wherein when a plurality of output devices are identified to establish communication with the selected audiovisual playback device at the same time, the audiovisual content is controlled to be output to the output device identified first among the plurality of identified playback devices.