Patent ID: 8280864

Claim:
A method, comprising: receiving, via a network and at a database server, presentation capabilities information associated with media hardware included in a system, the media hardware including a display; utilizing the database server, retrieving a plurality of presentation settings from a database by sending a query from the database server to the database, the query being based on the presentation capabilities information, wherein the presentation settings are retrieved from the database based on sending the presentation capabilities information from the system to the database server via the network, and wherein the presentation settings are searched for at the database, utilizing the presentation capabilities information; sending the presentation settings from the database server to the system for use by the system, the system including the media hardware, if the presentation settings are found as a result of the search; and initiating a presentation setting optimization algorithm, if the presentation settings are not found as a result of the search, wherein the presentation setting optimization algorithm searches through all possible combinations of presentation settings for the display, for identifying presentation settings that result in the display being functional, and wherein a sensor is utilized to identify the presentation settings that result in the display being functional, the sensor including one or more of a visual sensor and an audio sensor for identifying the presentation settings that result in the display being functional; wherein the query from the database server to the database includes a query for a timing capable of being used by the display which results in the display being functional.