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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 04, 2013
Applicant:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Matthew Xavier Mora, Fremont, CA (US);
Ashley Ian Butterworth, Normanhurst, AU;
Andrew Yanowitz, Ben Lomond, CA (US);
Niel David Warren, Soquel, CA (US);
Assignee:
Apple, Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06F 13/00 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 69/08 (2013.01); G06F 15/16 (2013.01); G06F 13/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus that enable a community of devices having differing underlying protocols to stream media data such as video or audio data. In one exemplary embodiment, this invention enables IEEE 1394-compliant ('FireWire' enabled) devices to communicate across an Ethernet infrastructure, such as one enabled by the Ethernet AVB Standard(s). This enhances connectivity, and also supports obviating one or more physical ports within the device(s). In another embodiment, or more wireless transports are utilized.