Patent ID: 8860774

Claim:
A system, comprising: a) a docking station, including (i) a microphone, (ii) a set of communication interfaces, through which set a first video stream and a first audio stream are received by the docking station, and a second video stream and a second audio stream are transmitted by the docking station, (iii) a bidirectional dock media communication interface that includes a dock communication port, and (iv) a dock media processor, which (A) receives the first video stream and the first audio stream, (B) reformats and assembles frames from the first video stream and the first audio stream into a first media stream, (C) transmits the first media stream through the port, (D) receives a second media stream through the port, (E) disassembles and reformats frames from the second media stream into the second video stream and creates the second audio stream, which includes audio information captured by the microphone, and (F) transmits the second video stream and the second audio stream to one or more interfaces in the set of communication interfaces.