IP Library › Granted Patent US 8,493,905
Granted Patent B2
US 8,493,905 · App. 12/877,152 · Granted Jul 23, 2013

Wireless clone mode display

Inventors: Srikanth Kambhatla (Portland, OR); Guoqing Li (Portland, OR)
Assignee: Intel Corporation
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Patent No.
US 8,493,905
App. No.
12/877,152
Granted
Jul 23, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

Wireless sinks, such as displays, may receive wirelessly transmitted audio/video information in clone mode. In one embodiment, the same audio/video stream may be provided to a plurality of sinks daisy chained from a wireless receiver.

Claims (33)

1. A method comprising:

wirelessly transmitting an audio/video stream to a plurality of audio/video sinks daisy chained from a wireless receiver;

using passthrough packets in a wireless protocol so the packets pass through a wireless transmitter and receiver without processing in the transmitter or receiver; and

using the same stream identifier to establish two connections to send audio/video streams to two different sinks in clone mode.

2. The method of claim 1 including adapting audio/video stream packets in a first interface protocol to a second interface protocol for display on sinks adapted to said second interface protocol.

3. The method of claim 1 including transmitting a single copy of the audio/video stream to a wireless receiver so that only a single copy is fetched at a wireless transmitter.

4. The method of claim 3 including managing destinations for this single copy through sideband messages and passthrough packets.

5. The method of claim 1 including, when two streams with the same stream identifier are detected, updating a table with an address of a second receiver to receive a second audio/video stream with the same stream identifier.

6. The method of claim 1 including sending the same audio/video stream to two receivers using one transmission.

7. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions to enable a processor to:

wirelessly transmit an audio/video stream to a plurality of audio/video sinks daisy chained from a wireless receiver; and

use passthrough packets in a wireless protocol so the packets pass through a wireless transmitter and receiver without processing in the transmitter or receiver; and

using the same stream identifier to establish two connections to send audio/video streams to two different sinks in clone mode.

8. The medium of claim 7 further storing instructions to adapt audio/video stream packets in a first interface protocol to a second interface protocol for display on sinks adapted to said second interface protocol.

9. The medium of claim 7 further storing instructions to transmit a single copy of the audio/video stream to a wireless receiver so that only a single copy is fetched at the wireless transmitter.

10. An apparatus comprising:

a wireless transmitter;

an adaptation layer coupled to said wireless transmitter;

said wireless transmitter to wireles sly transmit an audio/video stream to a plurality of audio/video sinks daisy chained from a wireless receiver; and

said transmitter to use passthrough packets in a wireless protocol so the packets pass through a wireless transmitter and receiver without processing in the transmitter or receiver and to use the same stream identifier to establish two connections to send audio/video streams to two different sinks in clone mode.

11. The apparatus of claim 10 , said transmitter to adapt audio/video stream packets in a first interface protocol to a second interface protocol for display on sinks adapted to said second interface protocol.

12. The apparatus of claim 10 , said transmitter to transmit a single copy of the audio/video stream to a wireless receiver so only a single copy is fetched at a wireless transmitter.

13. The apparatus of claim 12 , said transmitter to use sideband messages and passthrough packages to manage destinations for this single copy.

14. The apparatus of claim 10 , said apparatus to update a table within an address of a second receiver to receive a second audio/video stream with the same stream identifier when two streams of the same stream identifier are detected.

15. The apparatus of claim 10 , said transmitter to send the same audio/video stream to two receivers using one transmission.

16. A method comprising: determining whether audio/video streams to be sent to two sinks have a common identifier;

if the same identifier is used for streams to be sent to two different sinks, reusing a stream sent to the first sink for the second sink and avoiding a second memory access to send the stream to the second sink;

using the same stream identifier to establish two connections to send audio/video streams to two different sinks in clone mode; and

wirelessly transmitting an audio/video stream to the two sinks.

17. The method of claim 16 including:

checking to see if two receivers can be served by a single beam; and

if both receivers can be served by a single beam, sending the same beam to be received by both receivers.

18. The method of claim 16 using passthrough packets in a wireless protocol so the packets pass through a wireless transmitter and receiver without processing in the transmitter or receiver.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 8, 2010
From: KAMBHATLA, SRIKANTH; LI, GUOQING
To: INTEL CORPORATION
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Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20120057517A1 · Mar 8, 2012