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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2006
Brian Peterson, Cypress, CA (US);
Brian Peterson, Cypress, CA (US);
Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods that facilitate the selection and connection of sub-devices managed by virtual device or logical units (LUs) within a network. In one exemplary embodiment, LU connections are preferably brought to the IP layer using HTTP commands and responses. These IP layer commands are used to communicate connection information among the LUs involved in the connection and to allow for LUs to determine which sub-devices within the LU will be used in a connection. When the specific details have been determined, the sink device will work at the network specific level to make the actual connection. This allows for the connections between LUs to be network independent until all of the specific details of the connection have been determined. After that, a connection is established using network specific commands and protocols.