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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 19, 2014
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Arlington, VA (US);
Nisheeth Gupta, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Momin Mirza, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Farooq Muzaffar, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Neenu Sohi Kainth, Coppell, TX (US);
Brian H. Whitton, Ridgefield, CT (US);
VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
A content sharing device may receive, from a content providing device, information that identifies content to be shared with a dongle device via a content sharing service. The content sharing device may receive, from the content providing device, information that identifies a contact with which the content is to be shared. The content sharing device may determine, based on the information that identifies the contact, a dongle device identifier. The dongle device identifier may include a network address associated with the dongle device. The content sharing device may provide, to the dongle device and based on determining the dongle device identifier, information that identifies the content. The information that identifies the content may cause the content to be accessible by a content receiving device connected to the dongle device.