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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 07, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 24, 2019
Sling Media Pvt Ltd, Bangaluru, IN;
Yatindra Salian, Bangalore, IN;
Girish Reddivari, Bangalore, IN;
SLING MEDIA PVT LTD, Bangaluru, IN;
Abstract
Methods and systems are provided for automatically establishing communications with a media device. One method involves a client device capturing and analyzing an image of a media device to obtain identification information associated with the media device, automatically configuring a network interface of the client device to communicate on a wireless network using at least a portion of the identification information associated with the media device obtained from the captured image, and thereafter establishing a peer-to-peer communication session with the media device via the wireless network. In one or more embodiments, a name or other identifier associated with the wireless network includes the portion of the identification information.