Home network controller with remote user interface wrapper of discovered multimedia content

摘要

A home networked controller device leverages discovery and control services to improve interoperability between devices that share multimedia content by re-serving the content wrapped in a remote user interface to enable client devices that have the capability to play the content but that require a remote user interface to be present.

主权项

1. A controller comprising:
at least one computer usable memory that is not a signal and having instructions which instructions when executed by at least one processor configure the processor to: adapt different sources of content to a client device on a network through a single user interface (UI) provided by the controller to the client device to transparently enable the client device to also receive content for playback that was initially presented without a remote UI, wherein at least a first source of content provides no remote UI and provides only AV content, and the instructions when executed by the processor configure the processor to: store the remote UI; discover the AV content on the first source of content, and wrap at least a content list representing the content in the remote UI prior to providing the remote UI along with the content list wrapped therein to the client device.