Patent ID: 8352616

Claim:
A system comprising: a receiver device configured to: receive a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) request broadcast by a transmitter device coupled to a first computer system via a data connector of the transmitter device, wherein the transmitter device is configured to wirelessly transmit a DHCP request to the receiver device, responsive to wirelessly receiving a DHCP request from the transmitter device, wirelessly assign an Internet Protocol (IP) address to the transmitter device from a list of available IP addresses, establish the wireless network connection between the transmitter device and the receiver device based on the IP address, and output, to a display device coupled to the receiver device, a media item wirelessly received from the transmitter device, wherein the transmitter device is configured to perform two-way wireless communications with only the receiver device and is configured to not perform two-way wireless communications with any other devices based on uniquely pre-pairing of the transmitter device and the receiver device based on a unique identifier of the receiver device such that an end-user need not pair the transmitter device and the receiver device as a condition to establishing the network connection.