Automated discovery and switch of a primary output display from a first display of a mobile device to a second display of a networked media device through an operating system of the mobile device

A method of a mobile device comprising:

• accessing a multicast capability of an operating system responsive to a user interacting with an indicator on a menu bar of an operating system of the mobile device;
• determining if there is a pairable application locally stored on a networked media device that is compatible with the operating system on the mobile device when a multicast message is broadcast from the operating system to the networked media device communicatively coupled to the mobile device through a local area network using a processor and a memory;
• and
• communicating a mirror sequence from the operating system to the pairable application responsive to a selection of a name by a user of the operating system.

A system comprising:

• a mobile device to access a multicast capability of an operating system responsive to a user interacting with an indicator on a menu bar of an operating system of the mobile device;
• a local area network;
• and
• a networked media device communicatively coupled with the mobile device through the local area network,
• wherein the operating system of the mobile device determines if there is a pairable application locally stored on the networked media device that is compatible with the operating system on the mobile device when a multicast message is broadcast from the operating system to the networked media device communicatively coupled to the mobile device through the local area network, and
• wherein the operating system communicates a mirror sequence from the operating system to the pairable application.