Patent ID: 7822879

Claim:
A method for assigning a required High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) physical address to an HDMI Consumer Electronics Control (HDMI-CEC) device within a network including at least two HDMI-CEC display devices connected with partially overlapped HDMI-CEC cluster trees, comprising: determining by a manipulating switch the required HDMI physical address to be assigned to an upstream HDMI-CEC device, wherein the required HDMI physical address is different from true HDMI physical address that should have been assigned according to standard HDMI procedure for computing an HDMI physical address; removing and restoring a Hot Plug Detect (HPD) signal to the upstream HDMI-CEC device in order to cause the upstream HDMI-CEC device to read a modified Extended Display Identification Data (EDID); and providing the required HDMI physical address to the upstream HDMI-CEC device.