Media rendering device providing uninterrupted playback of content

摘要

A method of providing uninterrupted playback of content being rendered by a media rendering device (102a) in a home network (100) is disclosed. The method comprises retaining (202) the media rendering device (102a) within the home network and checking whether the media rendering device is rendering content and if so checking (204) whether the media rendering device wants to continue its current ongoing rendering of content uninterruptedly and if so configuring (206) the media rendering device to notify the plurality of controller devices not to subscribe and invoke rendering service request thereby suspending the processing of rendering service request. The rendering devices could be connected televisions, streamium devices, connected photo frames, set-top-boxes, mobile phones and personal computers/laptops within the home network. The disclosed method could help the media rendering device and controller devices to save on power and network traffic.

主权项

1. A method of providing uninterrupted playback of content being rendered by a media rendering device in a home network, the media rendering device configured to render content available from a plurality of content sources, the home network having a plurality of controller devices to control the media rendering device, the method comprising:
retaining the media rendering device within the home network and checking whether the media rendering device is rendering content, and if so checking whether the media rendering device wants to continue its current ongoing rendering of content uninterruptedly as preconfigured in said media rendering device, and if so configuring the media rendering device to notify the plurality of controller devices not to subscribe and invoke any rendering service request prior to any controller device invoking a rendering service request, thereby suspending the processing of rendering service request, wherein the media rendering device uses an event mechanism and notifies one or more controller devices that the processing of the rendering service request is temporarily disabled, thereby disallowing the controller device to subscribe for events associated with specific rendering service.