METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING PRESENTATION OF MULTIMEDIA DATA FROM MULTIPLEX SIGNAL BETWEEN DEVICES IN LOCAL AREA NETWORK

摘要

FIELD: radio engineering, communication.SUBSTANCE: disclosed is a method which enables to control presentation of multimedia data being delivered to one or more devices on a local area network. Control is provided through steps of receiving at least a portion of a multiplex signal at a control device; determining at the control device one or more logical channels contained in the multiplex signal; detecting presence of a controllable device on the local area network; receiving at least a portion of the multiplex signal at the controllable device; and transmitting instructions from the control device to the controllable device instructing the controllable device to present to a user at least one type of multimedia data associated with one or more of the logical channels of the multiplex signal.EFFECT: enabling communication between wireless communication devices operating in different networks for distributed multimedia.31 cl, 15 dwg