Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.v.

Manu Dhundi

Vikas Jain

A method of providing uninterrupted playback of content being rendered by a media rendering device () in a home network () is disclosed. The method comprises retaining () the media rendering device () within the home network and checking whether the media rendering device is rendering content and if so checking () whether the media rendering device wants to continue its current ongoing rendering of content uninterruptedly and if so configuring () the media rendering device to notify the plurality of controller devices not to subscribe and invoke rendering service request thereby suspending the processing of rendering service request. The rendering devices could be connected televisions, streamium devices, connected photo frames, set-top-boxes, mobile phones and personal computers/laptops within the home network. The disclosed method could help the media rendering device and controller devices to save on power and network traffic.

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Bengaluru, India

Manu Dhundi