Patent ID: 8711866

Claim:
Apparatus for routing audio-video data, comprising a streaming device, the apparatus comprising: (a) an announcer device configured to indicate wirelessly to surrounding media handling devices that said streaming device is available for routing or rerouting; and (b) a scout device configured to wirelessly scan surroundings of said streaming device to identify surrounding media handling device as being compatible to given media and determine availability of said compatible media handling devices to receive rerouted audio-video data from said streaming device, said scout device further being configured to determine media type requirements of said compatible media handling devices, said media type requirements comprising screen capability and a data rate requirement; said apparatus being configured to set up a bidirectional wireless communication link between said streaming device and respective media handling devices, said bidirectional wireless link able to carry said rerouted data as streaming audio-video data over either direction of said bidirectional communication link; (c) a media transformer, configured to transform media into a form that accords with respective determined media type requirements, there being a plurality of said media type requirements; (d) a user interface for allowing a user to select one of said plurality of media type requirements for transforming at said media transformer; and (e) a media cloner, associated with said media transformer, for making multiple copies of said media data, thereby to enable said apparatus to redirect said media data to a plurality of locations, at least one of said multiple copies being transformed at said media transformer.