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Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 2014

Filed:

Dec. 19, 2006
Applicants:

Shafiq Kassam, Lewisville, TX (US);

Prabhakar Mani, Lewisville, TX (US);

Anup Nanda, Irving, TX (US);

Maitreyi Krishnaswamy, New York, NY (US);

Anil Guntupalli, Wayland, MA (US);

Inventors:

Shafiq Kassam, Lewisville, TX (US);

Prabhakar Mani, Lewisville, TX (US);

Anup Nanda, Irving, TX (US);

Maitreyi Krishnaswamy, New York, NY (US);

Anil Guntupalli, Wayland, MA (US);

Assignee:

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/00 (2006.01); H04N 5/445 (2011.01); H04N 21/431 (2011.01); H04N 21/472 (2011.01); H04N 21/482 (2011.01); H04N 21/6547 (2011.01); H04N 7/173 (2011.01); H04N 21/436 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/17318 (2013.01); H04N 21/4312 (2013.01); H04N 21/47202 (2013.01); H04N 21/482 (2013.01); H04N 21/6547 (2013.01); H04N 21/4314 (2013.01); H04N 21/436 (2013.01);
Abstract

A content processing device within a customer premises is connected to a first network internal to the customer premises and is also connected to a second network external to the customer premises. The content processing device is configured to download via the second network, and then to execute, instructions to detect a computing device within the first network and then to request selectively specified media content from the computing device, whereby the specified media content is retrieved from the computing device via the first network.


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