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US 9,288,546 B2Granted
Method and system for electronic communication to television
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorLing Jun Wong
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Abstract
A system and method of displaying messages at a television is described. The method of displaying messages at a television includes: establishing communication over the Internet between a television and a server. A user-generated communication is received at the television from the server. A notification is displayed on the television that the user-generated communication has been received. The user-generated communication is displayed on the television.
Claims12
A method comprising:
- establishing communication over the internet between a display device and a server;
- receiving a communication at said display device from said server;
- and
- displaying said communication on said display device and using the display device to mirror the communication sent to a mobile device separate from the display device, whereby a communication sent from a mobile device is mirrored on the display device and on a computing device separate from the display device such that the display device is copied on communications sent to/from the computing device and to/from the mobile device, so that a user of the display device is enabled to respond to the communication using the mobile device, wherein the mobile device is a stand-alone computing device capable of network access, sending messages, receiving messages, and displaying messages, all independently of a local connection to the display device.
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A device comprising:
- at least one computer memory that is not a transitory signal and that comprises instructions executable by at least one processor for:
- establishing communication over the internet between a display device and a server;
- receiving a user-generated communication at the display device from the server;
- and
- displaying the user-generated communication on the display device and using the display device to mirror the user-generated communication sent to a mobile device separate from the display device, whereby a user-generated communication sent from a mobile device is mirrored on the display device and on a computing device separate from the display device such that the display device is copied on user-generated communications sent to/from the computing device and to/from the mobile device, so that a user of the display device is enabled to respond to the user-generated communication using the mobile device, wherein the mobile device is a stand-alone computing device capable of network access, sending messages, receiving messages, and displaying messages, all independently of a local connection to the display device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.