Location based user aware video on demand sessions

A method for enabling a user with a location-aware mobile device to have at least partial control of a closest cable device associated with a closest television, the method implemented by a cable backend comprising a login server, a location system, and an accounting system, the method comprising the steps of:

• storing, at the location system, fixed locations of a plurality of cable devices;
• maintaining, at the accounting system, account details of the user,
• receiving, at the login server, a login command from the location-aware mobile device, the login command includes at least account information associated with the user and a current location of the user;
• sending, from the login server, the current location of the user to the location system;
• storing, at the location system, the current location of the user;
• sending, from the login server, a query to the location system to determine which one of the plurality of cable devices is located closest to the current location of the user;
• determining, at the location system, which one of the plurality of cable devices is located closest to the current location of the user;
• sending, from the location system, information identifying the closest cable device to the login server;
• sending, from the login server, the information identifying the closest cable device to the location-aware mobile device;
• sending, from the login server, a request to the accounting system for at least a portion of the account details of the user stored therein;
• sending, from the accounting system, the at least a portion of the account details of the user to the login server;
• sending, from the login server, the at least a portion of the account details of the user to the closest cable device;
• sending, from the login server, a login confirmation to the location-aware mobile device to indicate to the user that they now have at least partial control of the closest cable device to control content displayed on the closest television;
• logging-out, at the login server, the user from the closest cable device if the user uses the location-aware mobile device to actively close the at least partial control of the closest cable device or the user moves the location-aware mobile device a predetermined distance away from the closest cable device;
• sending, from the login server, a logout message to the accounting system;
• stopping, at the accounting system, billing of the user for content displayed on the closest television and starting billing an original subscriber-user of the closest cable device for content displayed on the closest television;
• wherein the plurality of cable devices includes one or more cable devices associated with one or more televisions located in a home of the user and multiple cable devices associated with multiple televisions located outside of the home of the user;
• and
• wherein the closest cable device is located outside of the home of the user but functions in an identical manner as the one or more cable devices located in the home of the user after the login server sends the at least a portion of the account details of the user to the closest cable device.