Application connection for devices in a network

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11330065-B2
Application number	US-201916363325-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 25, 2019
Priority date	Mar 14, 2013
Publication date	May 10, 2022
Grant date	May 10, 2022

Abstract

A method for application connection includes receiving, by a first electronic device, a list of application active sessions based on the active sessions being in an area of a global positioning system (GPS) location of the first electronic device. The first electronic device receives a selection of an active session associated with a first application running on a second electronic device. In response to the selection of the active session, the first electronic device receives information including at least a service set identification (SSID) and a network security key associated with the secure local network. The first electronic device connects to the secure local network without user input of the SSID and the network security key from a user of the first electronic device. The first electronic device connects to the first application running on the second electronic device via the secure local network.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for application connection, comprising:
receiving and displaying, by a first electronic device, a list of application active sessions based on the application active sessions being in an area of a global positioning system (GPS) location of the first electronic device, wherein the list of application active sessions comprises a list of television applications that are launched and executing on different television devices and that are active on respective local networks;
receiving, by the first electronic device, a selection of an application active session associated with a first television application running on a second electronic device, wherein the second electronic device is connectable via a secure local network, and the first electronic device is not yet connected to the secure local network;
in response to the selection of the active session, receiving, by the first electronic device, information including at least a service set identification (SSID), a network security key associated with the secure local network and a host physical home address associated with the second electronic device;
connecting, by the first electronic device, to the secure local network without user input of the SSID and the network security key from a user of the first electronic device; and
connecting, by the first electronic device, to the first television application running on the second electronic device via the secure local network, wherein the first television application is configured to share access to the first television application and share content from the first television application with the second electronic device after the second electronic device has connected to the secure local network.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
transmitting the host physical home address information for the second electronic device to a server, wherein the second electronic device includes the first television application launched thereon;
transmitting location information for the first electronic device to the server; and
generating session information by the server for each application active session.

3. The method of claim 2 , further comprising:
launching a second application on the first electronic device; and
connecting the second application to the first application via the secure local network.

4. The method of claim 2 , wherein the information received by the first electronic device further comprises a session name and a name of the host.

5. The method of claim 4 , further comprising deaccessing the first electronic device from the first television application based on one or more of: 1) the first electronic device moving out of a particular range to the second electronic device or 2) a time period;
wherein the second electronic device comprises a television device and the first electronic device comprises a mobile electronic device.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the mobile electronic device comprises a mobile phone.

7. The method of claim 5 , wherein the respective local networks comprise different secure local networks, and shared access to the first television application comprises shared use of the first television application simultaneously between the first electronic device and the second electronic device.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first electronic device communicates to the second electronic device over the secure local network based on an Internet Protocol (IP) address of the second electronic device.

Assignees

• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Singhal Ashish
• Lee Shiangfeng
• Kashyap Praveen
• Rowe Jason

Classifications

• H04L65/00 Primary

  Network arrangements, protocols or services for supporting real-time applications in data packet communication (real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM] H04L51/04; selective video distribution H04N21/00) · CPC title

• H04L67/535

  Tracking the activity of the user (network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34) · CPC title

• H04L67/52

  specially adapted for the location of the user terminal · CPC title

• H04L67/141

  Setup of application sessions (admission control or resource allocation in data switching networks H04L47/70) · CPC title

• H04L67/142 Primary

  Managing session states for stateless protocols; Signalling session states; State transitions; Keeping-state mechanisms · CPC title