Communication dongle physically coupled with a media device to automatically discover and launch an application on the media device and to enable switching of a primary output display from a first display of a mobile device to a second display of the media device through an operating system of the mobile device sharing a local area network with the communication dongle

A method of a mobile device comprising:

• accessing a multicast capability of an operating system responsive to a user interacting with at least one of an selector on a header bar of a browser application of the mobile device and an indicator on a menu bar 1200 of the operating system of the mobile device;
• determining if there is an enabling application resident on a communication dongle physically coupled on a port of a media device that is compatible with at least one of the browser application of the mobile device and the operating system on the mobile device when a multicast message is broadcast from the operating system to the communication dongle communicatively coupled to the mobile device through a local area network;
• communicating at least one of a launch sequence and a mirror sequence from at least one of the operating system of the mobile device and the browser application of the mobile device to the communication dongle after establishing a session between the mobile device and the communication dongle;
• automatically launching a compatible application on the communication dongle on a second display of the media device based on the launch sequence;
• and
• automatically switching a primary output display of the mobile device from a first display physically coupled with the mobile device to a second display physically coupled with the media device based on the mirror sequence.

A system comprising:

• a mobile device to access a multicast capability of an operating system responsive to a user interacting with at least one of an selector on a header bar of a browser application of the mobile device and an indicator on a menu bar 1200 of the operating system of the mobile device;
• a media device;
• and
• a communication dongle that communicatively couples the mobile device with the media device through a local area network that is commonly shared between the mobile device and the communication dongle,
• wherein the mobile device determines if there is an enabling application resident on the communication dongle physically coupled on a port of the media device that is compatible with at least one of the browser application of the mobile device and the operating system on the mobile device when a multicast message is broadcast from the operating system to the communication dongle communicatively coupled to the mobile device through the local area network.