US 9,288,534 Systems and methods for operating media devices
3 defendants · 3 suits · updated October 6, 2026
Also cited as U.S. Patent No. 9,288,534 · US9288534B2 · US 9,288,534 B2 · 9288534 · the '534 patent
Crestone IP Management, LLC has filed 3 patent-infringement suits on US 9,288,534, "Systems and methods for operating media devices" since July 16, 2026, 2 of them in the E.D. Tex., against 3 distinct defendants including Apple Inc., HP Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.. The patent was granted March 15, 2016 on a priority date of May 12, 2010. Its abstract opens: "A wireless adapter enables communication between a content source and a content player for rendering of content at the content source by the content player, and a remote controller allows for control of the content delivery, and one or more features of the…" The examiner cited 19 references during prosecution.
- Assignee
- Crestone Ip Management LLC
- Priority date
- May 12, 2010
- Granted
- March 15, 2016
- Expires
- May 12, 2030
- Status
- Active
- Claims
- 17 (3 independent)
- Inventors
- Gene Sheridan, Hooman Kashef Hamadani, Ramanathan Subramaniam
- Full text
- Google Patents
The suits
3 cases · E.D. Tex. (2) · W.D. Tex. (1)
| Filed | Defendant | Plaintiff | Court | Docket |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-16 | Apple Inc. | Crestone IP Management, LLC | W.D. Tex. | 1:26-cv-01976 |
| 2026-07-16 | HP Inc. | Crestone IP Management, LLC | E.D. Tex. | 2:26-cv-00586 |
| 2026-07-16 | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | Crestone IP Management, LLC | E.D. Tex. | 2:26-cv-00584 |
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Independent claims
What is actually asserted, verbatim.
1. A remote controller for communicating with a media source and a media player, the remote controller comprising: a wireless interface configured for establishing (i) a first wireless communication link between the remote controller and the media player, and (ii) a second wireless communication link between the remote controller and the media source; a network interface configured for: (i) communicating with the media source via the second wireless communication link, wherein the communication with the media source comprises first information describing content available on the media source, and (ii) communicating with the media player via the first wireless communication link, wherein the communication with the media player comprises second information describing a set of controls supported by the media player; a processor configured for: (i) determining compatible content available on the media source wherein the compatible content is in a format that is compatible with a feature of the media player, wherein the feature is selected from a group consisting of: volume control, picture control, rewind, and fast forward, and (ii) building a user interface for controlling the media player using the set of controls supported by the media player and for selecting compatible content from the media source; and (iii) controlling the media player via the user interface by providing a media player command to the media player via the first link; (iv) controlling the media source by providing a media source command to the media source via the second link wherein the media source command results in the transfer of selected content from the media source to the media player via a third wireless communication link.
6. A remote controller for communicating with a media source and a media player, the remote controller comprising: a network interface for: (i) communicating with the media player via a first wireless communication link, wherein communicating comprises transmitting media player commands to the media player and receiving first information therefrom describing a set of controls supported by the media player; and (ii) communicating with one or more media sources via a second wireless communication link wherein communicating comprises transmitting media source commands to the one or more media sources and receiving therefrom second information describing content items available by the one or more media sources; a processor for: (i) analyzing the received first information so as to identify at least one feature of the media player (ii) determining compatible content available on the one or more media sources wherein the compatible content is in a format that is compatible with a feature of the media player, wherein the feature is selected from a group consisting of: volume control, picture control, rewind, and fast forward, and (iii) building a user interface for controlling the media player using the set of controls (iv) creating a user interface for controlling the media player and for selecting compatible content from the one or more media sources, wherein the user interface is created based on the set of controls supported by the media player and built to display content from the one or more media sources determined to be compatible with the media player.
13. A method for remotely controlling a media source and a media player, the method comprising: establishing a first wireless communication link between a remote controller and the media player; establishing a second wireless communication link between the remote controller and the media source; receiving first information from the media source wherein the first information describes content available on the media source; receiving second information from the media player wherein the second information describes a set of controls supported by the media player; determining, based on the first information and the second information, the content available on the media source that is compatible with a feature of the media player, wherein the feature is selected from a group consisting of: volume control, picture control, rewind, and fast forward; building a user interface for controlling the media player using the set of controls supported by the media player and for selecting compatible content; transmitting a media player command to the media player via the first wireless communication link; and transmitting a media source command to the media source via the second wireless communication link, thereby causing the media player to receive a content item, for rendering thereof, from the media source over a third wireless communication link between the media source and the media player.
Art before the examiner
44 references of record, 19 cited by the examiner.
Everything listed here was before the Office and is what a challenge must go beyond. Art the examiner never saw is where an invalidity search starts.
Examiner-cited
- US20010011940A1 — Method and apparatus for identifying codes for remotely controlling electronic devices via a wireless communication medium (Christopher D. Williams)
- US20020059637A1 — Home gateway for video and data distribution from various types of headend facilities and including digital video recording functions (Rakib Selim Shlomo)
- US6563430B1 — Remote control device with location dependent interface (Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.)
- US20050024226A1 — Digital interconnect of entertainment equipment (Universal Electronics Inc.)
- US20050117910A1 — System and methods for remote control of multiple display and devices (Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.)
- US20050195099A1 — Apparatus and method to facilitate universal remote control (Alberto Vidal)
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- US20060010476A1 — Method for concurrently presenting multiple content types in a tv platform (Kelly Declan P)
- US20060056449A1 — Data transmission system, data transmission method, and media apparatus (Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba)
- US7034891B2 — Interfacing system for stream source apparatus and display apparatus and interfacing method thereof (Lg Electronics Inc.)
- US20060209745A1 — System, method and apparatus for wireless delivery of content from a generalized content source to a generalized content sink (Radiospire Networks, Inc.)
- US20070088812A1 — Media control system (Clark Christopher M)
- US20070169115A1 — Portable media player as a low power remote control and method thereof (Apple Computer, Inc.)
- US20070296552A1 — System and method for setting up a universal remote control (Universal Electronics Inc.)
- US20080133597A1 — Methods, systems, and computer program products for determining availability of presentable content via a subscription service (Jeffrey Scott Bardsley)
- US20100131613A1 — Media sharing network (Karl Jonsson)
- US20100162320A1 — Laptop based television remote control (Broadcom Corporation)
- US20110156944A1 — Device control bus command translation for noncompliant and incompatible devices (Eldon Technology Limited)
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Applicant-cited and other (25)
- US20010021998A1 — Apparatus and method for effectively implementing a wireless television system
- US7039643B2 — System, method and apparatus for converting and integrating media files
- US7092326B2 — Player for storage media
- US20060262221A1 — Content display-playback system, content display-playback method, and recording medium and operation control apparatus used therewith
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- US20070143801A1 — System and method for a programmable multimedia controller
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- US20070192802A1 — Method for Utilizing a Media Adapter to Manage Multimedia Data Stored in a Plurality of Multimedia Sources
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- US20090100495A1 — Wireless multimedia system
- US7555715B2 — Methods and systems for use in maintaining media data quality upon conversion to a different data format
- US7630781B2 — Media data reproduction methods and embedded systems utilizing the same
- WO2010019408A2 — Bookmarks for flexible integrated access to published material
- US7752327B2 — Receiver driven streaming in a peer-to-peer network
- US7783773B2 — Glitch-free media streaming
- US7865366B2 — Data preparation for media browsing
- US7877497B2 — On-demand media streaming from a user's own library to a receiving device of the user
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Classification
- H04N21/440218primary — Processing of video elementary streams, e.g. splicing a video clip retrieved from local storage with an incoming video stream or rendering scenes according to encoded video stream scene graphs involving reformatting operations of video signals for household redistribution, storage or real-time display by transcoding between formats or standards, e.g. from MPEG-2 to MPEG-4
- H04N21/4122 — Peripherals receiving signals from specially adapted client devices additional display device, e.g. video projector
- H04N21/4126 — The peripheral being portable, e.g. PDAs or mobile phones
- H04N21/41265 — The peripheral being portable, e.g. PDAs or mobile phones having a remote control device for bidirectional communication between the remote control device and client device
- H04N21/42204 — User interfaces specially adapted for controlling a client device through a remote control device; Remote control devices therefor
- H04N21/43615 — Interfacing a Home Network, e.g. for connecting the client to a plurality of peripherals
- H04N7/163 — Authorising the user terminal, e.g. by paying; Registering the use of a subscription channel, e.g. billing by receiver means only
Family
- US9288534B2 — B2 (2016)
- US20110304443A1 — A1 (2011)
- 3 foreign family members: WO2011143403A2, WO2011143403A3, EP2569941A2
Abstract
A wireless adapter enables communication between a content source and a content player for rendering of content at the content source by the content player, and a remote controller allows for control of the content delivery, and one or more features of the content source, player, or both.
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