Facebook, Inc.

Aol Llc, a Delaware Limited Liability Company

Aol Inc.

3com Corporation

Meta Platforms, Inc.

Bright Sun Technologies

Tarquin Consulting Co., LLC

David Clyde Chiles

Patrick A Meenan

Jeffrey Joseph Damick

Eric Bosco

Shilpa Sarkar

Udeepta Dutta Bordoloi

Lu D Chen

Mari Sheibley

Jaed Uavechanichkul

Hai Wang

Sergii Demianov

Roderick J Bartlett

Jackie Lee Manbeck, Jr

Anthony A Chiles

Patrick Meenan

Brenda Whitehurst

Vikas Puri

Vu Hoanh Nguyen

Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can determine that a broadcaster of a first live content stream has identified at least one user of a social networking system to join as co-broadcaster. A merged live content stream is published through the social networking system, the merged live content stream including the first live content stream of the broadcaster and a second live content stream associated with the at least one identified user. At least one notification is sent to one or more other users of the social networking system. The notification informs the one or more other users about the merged live content stream.

Systems and methods for shared broadcasting

Techniques are provided for leveraging narrowband connectivity (such as dial-up communications or other types of low bandwidth communications) to provision or configure broadband connectivity between a broadband access provider and a broadband device, such as a DSL modem or a cable modem. Specifically, because narrowband connectivity does not require advance configuration or provisioning by the host system of connectivity parameters for an access-seeking device, a modem at an access-seeking device may be leveraged to establish a narrowband connection between that device and a host system and to enable an exchange or negotiation of connectivity parameters necessary to enable future broadband connectivity. Thus, once established, the narrowband connection may be used as a conduit for communicating required provisioning information between the broadband-enabling host and the access-seeking device to enable broadband connectivity by the device in the future.

Switching between connectivity types to maintain connectivity

A home-networking gateway may automatically provide a function based on data identified on a device on a home network. The home-networking gateway may perform the function using another device that is capable of performing the function and is accessible to the home-networking gateway.

Interoperability using a local proxy server

A home-networking gateway may provide a service to a device on a home network by transparently accessing (or spoofing) a capability of a different device on the home network. The device capabilities may be automatically detected and used. A home-networking gateway also may transparently provide a service from a host system to a device on a home network by accessing a service on a host system.

Capability spoofing using a local proxy server

Techniques are provided for the configuration of a home-networking system. Home-networking configuration information may be stored on a host system in a manner accessible to the home-networking system and migrated to a home-networking gateway or router that has not yet been configured. Wireless configuration information may be stored on a home-networking gateway or router and used to configure one or more wireless access points through the use of a physical connection, such as a wired communications pathway. One or more wireless home-networking devices may be configured based on wireless configuration information stored in a central repository on a host system or a home-networking system. The wireless configuration information may be accessible only through the use of a security code.

Configuring wireless devices

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David Clyde Chiles