Visibility of UPNP media renderers and initiating rendering via file system user interface
US7454511B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | May 29, 2003 |
| Grant date | Nov 18, 2008 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Nov 4, 2025 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L69/329
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A computing device is equipped with file system services and media related services that automatically make visible to a user of the computing device, through an user interface of the file system, availability of one or more UPNP media renderers, on discovery of the availability of the one or more UPNP media renderers. In various embodiments, the file system services and the media related services are further equipped to cause a media content to be rendered by a UPNP media renderer, in response to the user dragging and dropping the file system entry corresponding to the media content into the file system entry corresponding to the UPNP media renderer.
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