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DYNAMICALLY ENABLING GUEST DEVICE SUPPORTING NETWORK-BASED MEDIA SHARING PROTOCOL TO SHARE MEDIA CONTENT OVER LOCAL AREA COMPUTER NETWORK OF LODGING ESTABLISHMENT WITH SUBSET OF IN-ROOM MEDIA DEVICES CONNECTED THERETO
DYNAMICALLY ENABLING GUEST DEVICE SUPPORTING NETWORK-BASED MEDIA SHARING PROTOCOL TO SHARE MEDIA CONTENT OVER LOCAL AREA COMPUTER NETWORK OF LODGING ESTABLISHMENT WITH SUBSET OF IN-ROOM MEDIA DEVICES CONNECTED THERETO
A media system includes a computer network, a media device supporting anetwork-based mediasharing protocol, a plurality of output devices located at a plurality ofphysical locations within ahospitality establishment, and a system controller. In response to a firstevent, the systemcontroller assigns the media device to a particular guest device byreconfiguring one or morecomponents of the computer network to enable the particular guest device toutilize the network-basedmedia sharing protocol to share media over the computer network with the mediadevice,and commands an output device located at a physical location associated withthe particularguest device to play media corresponding to the media signal outputted by themedia device onthe output port. In response to a second event, the system controller un-assigns the media devicefrom the particular guest device and commands the output device to stopplaying the media.
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