Federated bluetooth device network with roaming capability
A system includes digital media rendering devices and logic to federate the plurality of devices into a single federated rendering device for a proximate mobile device. The system accepts a request from the mobile device for rendering services by the federated rendering device via a rendering protocol.
1. A system comprising:
a plurality of digital media rendering devices;
non-transitory logic to federate the digital media rendering devices into a single federated rendering device configured for utilization by a proximate mobile device for rendering digital media;
non-transitory logic to accept a request for rendering services from the proximate mobile device to the single federated rendering device via a rendering protocol;
non-transitory logic to track physical movement of the proximate mobile device and to implement a hand-off of rendering of audio from the proximate mobile device continuously to a device of the digital media rendering devices physically closest to the proximate mobile device; and
non-transitory logic to implement the hand-off in a graduated fashion, with rendering of the audio from the proximate mobile device occurring simultaneously from more than one of the digital media rendering devices for a period of time or within an overlapping service boundary of the more than one of the digital media rendering devices.
2. The system of claim 1 , the rendering protocol being one or more of Bluetooth, Airplay, or DLNA.
3. The system of claim 1 , wherein each of the digital media rendering devices comprises the logic to federate rendering of the digital media.
4. The system of claim 1 , further comprising:
a server system comprising non-transitory logic to coordinate and manage the rendering devices.
5. The system of claim 1 , further comprising:
non-transitory logic to respond to the request for rendering services with a virtual device name.
6. The system of claim 1 , further comprising:
a shared database configured for utilization by the single federated rendering device and comprising a connection status for each of a plurality of mobile devices comprising the proximate mobile device.
7. The system of claim 6 , further comprising:
non-transitory database synchronization logic to maintain the shared database in a synchronized state.
8. The system of claim 1 , further comprising non-transitory logic to coordinate the digital media rendering devices to hand off link and rendering responsibility for the proximate mobile device between the digital media rendering devices.
9. The system of claim 1 , further comprising:
non-transitory logic to implement within the single federated rendering device “do not disturb” rules for the proximate mobile device by time and location.
10. The system of claim 1 , further comprising:
non-transitory logic to expand or move rendering of the audio from the proximate mobile device to additional devices of the digital media rendering devices via gestures.
11. The system of claim 1 , further comprising:
logic to detect a plurality of mobile devices in a same physical area and to merge calls to the plurality of mobile devices in a same physical area into a single rendering of a conference call.