DISCOVERING AND CONTROLLING MULTIPLE MEDIA RENDERING DEVICES UTILIZING DIFFERENT NETWORKING PROTOCOLS

摘要

A virtual media rendering device acts as a proxy for physical media rendering devices that lack support for a designated common protocol such as UPnP/DLNA. The virtual device conforms to a designated common media rendering control protocol so that media rendering devices on the network that do not support the common protocol may be accessible via the common media rendering protocol through the virtual media rendering device. Requests received by the virtual media rendering device using the common protocol are converted to the media rendering control protocol used by the proxied physical media rendering device. The virtual media rendering device appears to other devices on the network as if it were a physical device.