Patent ID: 8572257

Claim:
A method of sharing data between a media device and a media controller, the method comprising: requesting, with the least one of the media device and the media controller, at least one of device descriptive data, communication configuration information, and media information from the other of the media device or the media controller via a Near Field Communication (NFC) communication link to instantiate a wireless communication link between the media controller and the media device; receiving the at least one of device descriptive data, the communication configuration information, and the media information from a non-requesting device of the at least one of the media device and the media controller via the NFC communication link; establishing a wireless communication link between the media controller and the media device according to the received communication configuration information, the established wireless communication link being separate from the NFC communication link; sharing the data between the media device and the media controller over the established wireless communication link independently of a connection state of the NFC communication link; and registering the media device with the media controller via the NFC communication link to exchange the at least one of the device descriptive data and the communication configuration information so as to enable a media device profile to be stored in a storage device in the media controller to enable the wireless communication link, wherein the media controller and the media device communicate via at least another wireless communication link using a translatable routable address when the media controller and the media device are spaced apart by a predetermined distance.