Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Praveen Prabhaharan

Balamuralidhar Maddali

T Sahaya George

Naman Patel

Sankaran Raman

Abhishek Malhotra

Raju T Ramakrishnan

Sampath Raman

Madankanth Lanka

Varaprasad Meka

Vasanthakumar Sarpasayanam

Peter Joseph

Thalha Yasir Refaye

Ashish Phutela

Chaitanya Kumar Behara

Naveen Rosario

Tapan Bansal

Durga Devi Murthy

Kaushik Khatua

An exemplary method includes a media content access device detecting a request provided by a mobile phone device to register the mobile phone device with the media content access device, registering the mobile phone device with the media content access device in response to the detected request, and automatically registering the mobile phone device with one or more additional media content access devices within the local area network. Corresponding methods and systems are also described.

Methods and systems for automatically registering a mobile phone device with one or more media content access devices

An approach is provided for controlling a set-top box based on sensor triggered events on a user device. A set-top box receives a control message from a user device, wherein the control message specifies an event corresponding to one or more sensors of the user device. The set-top box maps the event to an activity associated with an application that is executed by the set-top box. Also, the set-top box presents media content provided by the application according to the mapped activity.

Method and apparatus for interacting with a set-top box based on sensor events from a user device

An approach is provided for controlling a set-top box based on a device event. A set-top box detects a wireless device. A communication channel is established with the wireless device configured to initiate a voice call. A command message is received, by the set-top box, over the communication channel. The command corresponds to a device event experienced by the wireless device.

Method and apparatus for controlling a set-top box based on device events

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