Patent ID: 8839334

Claim:
A method for controlling interface, comprising: detecting a state of connection with one or more sink devices and one or more source devices which are connected to input and output ports of a multimedia interface module; identifying at least one operation mode available for the detected connection state; and transmitting device information of the one or more sink devices to the one or more source devices, the device information being selectively edited in accordance with a requested operation mode among the identified at least one operation mode, wherein the at least one operation mode includes at least one of Through, Convert, Switch, Mix, Distribute, Duplicate and Exchange, and wherein the at least one operation mode including Through, Convert, Switch and Mix are available when two or more source devices and one sink device are connected, the at least one operation mode including Through, Convert, Distribute and Duplicate are available when one source device and two or more sink devices are connected, and the at least one operation mode including Through, Convert, Switch, Mix, Distribute, Duplicate and Exchange are available when two or more source devices and two or more sink devices are connected.