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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2026
Filed:
Jun. 02, 2023
Roku, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Karthick Narayanan, Cambridge, GB;
Neena Mohanachandran Sailaja, Cambridge, GB;
Jason Schmidlapp, San Jose, CA (US);
ROKU, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof for establishing a streaming channel between a wireless communication device and a streaming device through a proximity device. The streaming device can initialize a network driver, and establish a first connection with a proximity device. Afterwards, the streaming device can retrieve, from the proximity device, a list of available wireless channels to communicate with the wireless communication device, where the list of available wireless channels is stored on the proximity device and selected from a list of wireless channels provided by the wireless communication device. The streaming device can further establish a second connection by the streaming device with the wireless communication device through a streaming channel selected from the list of available wireless channels.