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US 11,960,871 B2Granted
System and method for app discovery, installation, and usage
AssigneeUniversal Electronics Inc.
InventorsPaul D. Arling, Arsham Hatambeiki
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Abstract
A system and method functions to make an app as installed on a smart device usable to access a service, such as a media streaming service. A presence of a counterpart to the app as installed on an appliance within a home network which includes the smart device is detected. A user credential, such as a username and password combination, that is associated with the counterpart to the app is then identified. The user credential is caused to be automatically associated with the app as installed on the smart device.
Claims19
A method, comprising:
- receiving from an appliance within a home network which includes a smart device a data that identifies a first app installed on the appliance;
- using the received data that identifies the first app installed on the appliance to cause a second app to be automatically installed on the smart device;
- and
- using the received data that identifies the first app installed on the appliance and an identifier for the home network to automatically cause a user credential for a service that is associated with the first app installed on the appliance to be automatically associated with the second app installed on the smart device whereupon the user credential will be verifiable by the service upon a subsequent usage of the second app installed on the smart device.
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A method, comprising:
- detecting by a smart device, via use of a media data received from an appliance within a home network which includes the smart device, a presence of a first app installed on the appliance;
- using by the smart device an IP protocol extension to automatically retrieve from the appliance a user credential that is associated with the first app installed on the appliance;
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- causing the user credential for a service that is associated with the first app installed on the appliance to be automatically associated with a second app installed on the smart device whereupon the user credential will be verifiable by the service upon a subsequent usage of the second app installed on the smart device.
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A smart device, comprising:
- a processing device programmed to detect, via use of a media data received from an appliance within a home network which includes the smart device, a presence of a first app installed on the appliance;
- use an IP protocol extension to automatically retrieve from the appliance a user credential that is associated with the first app installed on the appliance;
- and
- cause the user credential for a service that is associated with the first app installed on the appliance to be automatically associated with a second app installed on the smart device whereupon the user credential will be verifiable by the service upon a subsequent usage of the second app installed on the smart device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.