Methods and Systems for Automatically Registering a Mobile Phone Device with One or More Media Content Access Devices

A method comprising:

• detecting, by a media content access device, a registration event broadcast by an additional media content access device across a local area network, the registration event comprising a unique identifier associated with a mobile phone device already registered with the additional media content access device;
• automatically registering, by the media content access device, the mobile phone device with the media content access device in accordance with the registration event, the automatic registering configured to enable selective control of the media content access device by the mobile phone device by way of a communication channel included in the local area network;
• and
• transmitting, by the media content access device, data representative of an acknowledgement of the automatic registration to the additional media content access device.

A method comprising:

• broadcasting, by a media content access device, a registration information request command across a local area network in response to the media content access device entering an active state after being in an inactive state;
• receiving, by the media content access device in response to the registration information request command, a registration event from an additional media content access device already registered with a mobile phone device;
• and
• automatically registering, by the media content access device, the mobile phone device with the media content access device in accordance with the registration event, the automatic registering configured to enable selective control of the media content access device by the mobile phone device by way of a communication channel included in the local area network.

A media content access device comprising:

• a monitoring facility configured to detect a request provided by a mobile phone device to register the mobile phone device with the media content access device;
• and
• a registration facility communicatively coupled to the monitoring facility and configured to
• register the mobile phone device with the media content access device in response to the detected request, the registration configured to enable selective control of the media content access device by the mobile phone device by way of a communication channel included in a local area network, and
• automatically register the mobile phone device with one or more additional media content access devices within the local area network, the automatic registration configured to enable selective control of the one or more additional media content access devices by the mobile phone device by way of one or more additional communication channels included in the local area network.