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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 11, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 21, 2014
Roku, Inc., Saratoga, CA (US);
Anthony Wood, Palo Alto, CA (US);
David Stern, Los Gatos, CA (US);
David Westerhoff, Fremont, CA (US);
Bill Ataras, Portland, OR (US);
Mark Goodwin, Mountain View, CA (US);
Aaron Graham, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Matt Emerson, New Orleans, LA (US);
Kevin Phillips, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Roku, Inc., Los Gatos, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for a computer system includes receiving an identifier associated with a client streaming player, determining one or more attributes associated with the identifier from a data structure in response to the identifier, determining available channels from a plurality of channels that are to be made available to the client streaming player in response to the identifier, wherein available channels comprises a first channel, but not the second channel, determining a first graphical identifier associated with the first channel, providing the first graphical identifier to the client streaming player, receiving a user selection of the first graphical identifier indicating a user request to associate the first channel with the computer system, and providing an indicator of a server network address associated with the first channel to the client streaming player.