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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 09, 2010
Balamuralidhar Maddali, Chennai, IN;
T. Sahaya George, TamilNadu, IN;
Madankanth Lanka, Andhra Pradesh, IN;
Chaitanya Kumar Behara, Andhra Pradesh, IN;
Venkatasrinivas Namburi, Andhra Pradesh, IN;
Abhishek Malhotra, Saharanpur, IN;
Anil Kumar Yanamandra, Hyderabad, IN;
Balamuralidhar Maddali, Chennai, IN;
T. Sahaya George, TamilNadu, IN;
Madankanth Lanka, Andhra Pradesh, IN;
Chaitanya Kumar Behara, Andhra Pradesh, IN;
Venkatasrinivas Namburi, Andhra Pradesh, IN;
Abhishek Malhotra, Saharanpur, IN;
Anil Kumar Yanamandra, Hyderabad, IN;
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
An approach is provided for presenting media via a set-top box. A set-top box detects a wireless device according to a predetermined communication protocol. A communication channel is established with the wireless device according to the communication protocol. A command message is received, according to the communication protocol, from the wireless device over the communication channel, wherein the command message specifies playback of media resident on the wireless device via the set-top box.