Method of integrating content on guest device with hospitality media system, and hospitality media system thereof

摘要

A hospitality media system includes a media system controller and a plurality of media devices located in a plurality of rooms and coupled to the media system controller. Each room has one or more in-room media devices located therein for performing a media function. A connection port allows a user of a room to establish data communications between the media system controller and a guest device. The media system controller is coupled to the connection port and configured to catalogue guest content available on the guest device to thereby form a guest content list, associate the guest content with one or more associated rooms at least including the user's room, and perform the media function utilizing content selected from the guest content list only on the in-room media devices located within the one or more associated rooms.

主权项

1. A method of integrating content with a hospitality media system having a plurality of media devices located in a plurality of rooms of a hospitality establishment and coupled to a media system controller, wherein the media devices and the media system controller are preconfigured to together provide entertainment to users in the rooms by performing a media function in each of the rooms utilizing original content selected from a first content list, the media system controller having access to a database correlating each of the rooms with one or more of the media devices that are located within each room, the respective one or more of the media devices that are located within each room hereinafter referred to as in-room media devices of the room; the method comprising:
dynamically generating a passkey in response to an occurrence of a first event associated with a particular room; storing in the database authentication data correlating the passkey to the particular room, the database further storing authentication data respectively correlating other passkeys to other rooms; wherein the passkey for the particular room is also displayed on a display device in the particular room, and after being displayed in the particular room the passkey is entered into a user interface of a mobile device operated by a user of the particular room; establishing data communications with the mobile device and receiving the passkey from the mobile device; querying the database to find the user's room being the room correlated in the database with the passkey received from the mobile device, whereby the user's room is confirmed to be the particular room in which the passkey received from the mobile device was displayed; allowing the user, via the user interface of the mobile device, to configure the hospitality media system to integrate guest content stored on a guest device; establishing data communications with the guest device in order to enable the hospitality media system to transfer the guest content from the guest device; automatically associating the guest content with only the user's room by storing in the database an association of the guest content with the user's room; querying the database to find one or more in-room media devices that are located within the user's room; performing the media function utilizing the guest content only on the one or more in-room media devices located within the user's room until an occurrence of a second event; and removing from the database the association of the guest content with the user's room in response to the occurrence of the second event.