Devices, systems and processes for facilitating seamless use of tuners across multiple devices within a local area network

A process, for seamless use of tuners provided by multiple devices within a local area network, comprising:

• maintaining, by a first user device, a first user device tuner directory;
• wherein the first user device tuner directory identifies a first tuner;
• receiving, by the first user device and from a second user device, a second user device tuner directory;
• wherein the second user device tuner directory identifies a second tuner;
• generating, by the first user device, a first instance of a universal tuner directory based on contents of the first user device tuner directory and the second user device tuner directory;
• sending, by the first user device to the second user device, the first user device tuner directory to facilitate generation by the second user device of a second instance of the universal tuner directory based on contents of the first user device tuner directory and the second user device tuner directory;
• wherein each of the first instance of the universal tuner directory and the second instance of the universal tuner directory identify current tuner requests for each of the first tuner and the second tuner.

A user device, configured for use in facilitating seamless tuner use across multiple devices within a local area network, comprising:

• a first tuner;
• a hardware processor configured to execute non-transient computer instructions for facilitating a seamless tuner engine;
• a data store for a tuner database;
• an interface configured to communicatively couple the user device with a second user device over a local area network (LAN);
• wherein the second user device includes a second tuner;
• wherein the seamless tuner engine facilitates operations comprising:
• establishing a session between the first user device and the second user device;
• generating a first tuner directory identifying current and scheduled uses of the first tuner;
• communicating, to the second user device, the first tuner directory;
• receiving, from the second user device, a second tuner directory identifying current and scheduled uses of the second tuner;
• generating, based on at least the first tuner directory and the second tuner directory, a first instance of a universal tuner directory identifying current and scheduled uses of each of the first tuner and the second tuner;
• wherein the second user device is configured to generate, based on the first tuner directory and the second tuner directory, a second instance of the universal tuner directory;
• and
• wherein, during the session, use of the first tuner and the second tuner is prioritized based on at least a request type.