Application Discovery

A non-transitory computer-readable data storage medium storing one or more sequences of instructions which when executed cause one or more processors to perform, in a second-screen computing device:

• initiating a discovery request in a network;
• receiving, in response to the discovery request, a discovery response identifying a discovery server on a first-screen device;
• sending a launch request to the discovery server to cause, on the first-screen device, a launching of a specific application;
• identifying the specific application to a local application executing on the second-screen device;
• causing, through the network, an interaction between the local application and the specific application.

A computing device configured to act as a second-screen device and comprising:

• one or more processors;
• a video display unit coupled to the one or more processors;
• a non-transitory computer-readable data storage medium coupled to the one or more processors and storing one or more sequences of instructions which when executed cause the one or more processors to perform:
• initiating a discovery request in a network;
• receiving, in response to the discovery request, a discovery response identifying a discovery server on a first-screen computing device;
• sending a launch request to the discovery server to cause, on the first-screen computing device, a launching of a specific application;
• identifying the specific application to a local application executing on the second-screen computing device;
• causing, through the network, an interaction between the local application and the specific application.