Deep Linking to Media-Player Devices
AssigneeFacebook, Inc.
InventorsFrancislav Penov, Mateusz Marek Niewczas
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Abstract
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, at an interface of a client system of a user of an online social network, a user input selecting a deep link. The deep link may include instructions for accessing a media-content item via a media-player device. The deep link may be selected by the user from a notification from the online social network referencing the media-content item. The media-player device may be proximate to the client system. In response to the selection of the deep link, instructions for accessing the selected media-content item via the media-player device may be sent from the client system to the media-player device.
Claims14
A method comprising, by a client system of a user of an online social network:
- receiving, at an interface of the client system, a user input selecting a deep link comprising instructions for accessing a media-content item via a media-player device, wherein the deep link is selected by the user from a notification from the online social network referencing the media-content item, and wherein the media-player device is proximate to the client system;
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- sending, from the client system to the media-player device in response to the selection of the deep link, instructions for accessing the selected media-content item via the media-player device.
One or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media embodying software that is operable when executed to:
- receive, at an interface of a client system of a user of an online social network, a user input selecting a deep link comprising instructions for accessing a media-content item via a media-player device, wherein the deep link is selected by the user from a notification from the online social network referencing the media-content item, and wherein the media-player device is proximate to the client system;
- and
- send, from the client system to the media-player device in response to the selection of the deep link, instructions for accessing the selected media-content item via the media-player device.
A system comprising:
- one or more processors;
- and a memory coupled to the processors comprising instructions executable by the processors, the processors operable when executing the instructions to:
- receive, at an interface of a client system of a user of an online social network, a user input selecting a deep link comprising instructions for accessing a media-content item via a media-player device, wherein the deep link is selected by the user from a notification from the online social network referencing the media-content item, and wherein the media-player device is proximate to the client system;
- and
- send, from the client system to the media-player device in response to the selection of the deep link, instructions for accessing the selected media-content item via the media-player device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.