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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 2017

Filed:

Dec. 31, 2015
Applicant:

Excalibur Ip, Llc, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Inventors:

Lars Erik Holmquist, San Francisco, CA (US);

Yash Dayal, Bangalore, IN;

Assignee:

Excalibur IP, LLC, New York, NY (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/431 (2011.01); H04N 21/426 (2011.01); H04N 21/45 (2011.01); H04N 21/41 (2011.01); H04N 21/239 (2011.01); H04N 21/258 (2011.01); H04N 21/643 (2011.01); H04N 21/8352 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/42684 (2013.01); H04N 21/2396 (2013.01); H04N 21/25833 (2013.01); H04N 21/25841 (2013.01); H04N 21/4126 (2013.01); H04N 21/4312 (2013.01); H04N 21/4524 (2013.01); H04N 21/64322 (2013.01); H04N 21/8352 (2013.01);
Abstract

Software receives a communication from a smart-television device. The communication includes a device identifier for the smart-television device and a geo-location for the smart-television device. The geo-location results from collaborative location detection that uses stored geo-positions previously received from one or more mobile devices positioned proximate to the smart-television device. The software causes the smart-television device to display a first view that includes a visual icon and a message identifying a connected-television service. The software receives a geo-position for a mobile device. Upon determining that the geo-location of the smart-television device is proximate to the geo-position of the mobile device, the software causes the mobile device to display a second view that includes the visual icon. The software receives a communication from the mobile device that indicates a match between the visual icon in the first view and the visual icon in the second view and connects the devices.


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