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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.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 16, 2019

Filed:

Nov. 07, 2016
Applicant:

At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);

Inventors:

William A. Brown, Canton, GA (US);

Troy C. Meuninck, Newnan, GA (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); G06Q 20/12 (2012.01); G06Q 30/04 (2012.01); G06Q 20/14 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/062 (2013.01); G06Q 20/1235 (2013.01); G06Q 20/14 (2013.01); G06Q 30/04 (2013.01); H04L 63/08 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, which operates in a mobile device server and has instructions to obtain a software application, store a first pairing key in a memory of the mobile device server where the first pairing key is generated by a device of a service provider in response to a review of the software application for compliance with a policy of the service provider, and execute a web server application at the mobile device server that is operable to detect a media resource center operably coupled with a media device, establish communications with the media resource center and transmit the first pairing key to the media resource center to enable at least a portion of services that are associated with the software application and that utilize the media device. Other embodiments are disclosed.


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