CPC H04N 21/2662 (2013.01) [H04N 21/222 (2013.01); H04N 21/233 (2013.01); H04N 21/234 (2013.01); H04N 21/2402 (2013.01); H04N 21/431 (2013.01); H04N 21/436 (2013.01); H04N 21/439 (2013.01); H04N 21/4312 (2013.01); H04N 21/44 (2013.01); H04N 21/443 (2013.01); H04N 21/44227 (2013.01); H04N 21/44245 (2013.01); H04N 21/4516 (2013.01); H04N 21/6193 (2013.01)] | 18 Claims |
1. A method performed by a first multimedia device to discover a processing offloader in a networked environment, the method comprising:
identifying the processing offloader and a second multimedia device in the networked environment;
determining, by a processor, that a processing bandwidth of the second multimedia device falls below a threshold processing bandwidth;
forwarding user interface graphics rendering instructions from the second multimedia device to the processing offloader based on determining that the processing bandwidth of the second multimedia device falls below the threshold processing bandwidth;
transmitting a first communication to the second multimedia device indicating a request to enable a proxy configured to output received rendered user interface graphics and disable a native UI executing on the second multimedia device; and
forwarding the rendered user interface graphics from the processing offloader to the second multimedia device.
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