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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 11, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 08, 2010
Balamuralidhar Maddali, Chennai, IN;
T. Sahaya George, TamilNadu, IN;
Sivasankari S. Venkataramamoorthy, Chennai, IN;
Varaprasad Meka, Karnataka, IN;
Thalha Yasir Refaye, Chennai, IN;
Rajkumar Panneerselvam, Chennai, IN;
Raju Ramakrishnan, Bangalore, IN;
Madankanth Lanka, Andhra Pradesh, IN;
Naman Patel, Gujarat, IN;
Abhishek Malhotra, Saharanpur, IN;
Chaitanya Kumar Behara, Andhra Pradesh, IN;
Anil Kumar Yanamandra, Hyderabad, IN;
Balamuralidhar Maddali, Chennai, IN;
T. Sahaya George, TamilNadu, IN;
Sivasankari S. Venkataramamoorthy, Chennai, IN;
Varaprasad Meka, Karnataka, IN;
Thalha Yasir Refaye, Chennai, IN;
RajKumar Panneerselvam, Chennai, IN;
Raju Ramakrishnan, Bangalore, IN;
Madankanth Lanka, Andhra Pradesh, IN;
Naman Patel, Gujarat, IN;
Abhishek Malhotra, Saharanpur, IN;
Chaitanya Kumar Behara, Andhra Pradesh, IN;
Anil Kumar Yanamandra, Hyderabad, IN;
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
An approach is provided for supporting messaging services via a set-top box. A set-top box establishes communications with a user device. The set-top box receives a message from the user device, and stores the message for inclusion in a messaging log. The set-top box presents content of the messaging log via a display coupled to the set-top box. According to one embodiment, the set-top box receives network address information of the user device, maps the network address information to location information, and retrieves information from a data repository based on the location information. In another embodiment, the user device acquires information about a program being experience by a user via the set-top box, and generates a message to provide presence status information to a social network service based on the program information.