Method and apparatus for indication of application layer connectivity
AssigneeAkimbo Systems Inc.
InventorsJames M. Funk, Steve Shannon
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Abstract
A display indicator is provided on a set-top appliance to indicate application layer connectivity between a client device and a server belonging to a hosted service. This connectivity optionally reflects synchronization state of a service related database on the appliance and its replica on the server. A second indicator on the appliance displays the completion status of an ongoing download.
Claims20
A front panel display for a set-top appliance comprising:
- a first indicator configured to reflect application layer connectivity status between a content management system executing on the set-top appliance and a hosted service through which information regarding multimedia content available for download to a computer readable medium of the set-top appliance can be obtained;
- and a second indicator configured to reflect current download status of the multimedia content.
A method, comprising reflecting a status of a current download of multimedia content by a set-top appliance via the Internet on a first indicator of a front panel display of the set-top appliance while at the same time reflecting a current application layer connectivity status between a content management application executing on the set-top appliance and a hosted service through which information regarding the multimedia content can be obtained on a second indicator of the front panel display.
An appliance, comprising a first display configured to indicate application layer connectivity status between a content management system executing on the appliance and a hosted service through which information regarding multimedia content available for download to the appliance can be obtained;
- and a second display configured to reflect current download status of the multimedia content.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.