STB-driven upgrade of remote server application

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9075682-B2
Application number	US-201213612979-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 13, 2012
Priority date	Sep 13, 2012
Publication date	Jul 7, 2015
Grant date	Jul 7, 2015

Abstract

A client application, executed on a set-top box with a local network, detects that a media server application, executed on a computing device within the local network, is eligible for a software upgrade. The set-top box provides, based on the detecting, an interactive prompt, on a separate television display, to request authorization for the software upgrade. The set-top box receives user input, via a remote control, authorizing the software upgrade and provides, to the media server application on the computing device, a signal for the media server application to initiate the software upgrade.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system, comprising:
a set-top box and a computing device within a local network, the computing device comprising:
a first network interface to communicate with one or more remote systems;
first one or more memories to store instructions and a media server application; and

first one or more processors to execute instructions in the first one or more memories to send, to a remote network, a discovery record with a router wide- area network (WAN) IP ad…

Assignees

• Christudass John J
• Paul Abhilash
• Limbasia Sunil D
• Tatavarty Srinivas
• Perumandla Aravind
• Verizon Patent & Licensing Inc

Inventors

• Christudass John J
• Paul Abhilash
• Limbasia Sunil D
• Tatavarty Srinivas
• Perumandla Aravind

Classifications

• H04N21/4882

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G06F8/65 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04N21/4586

  Electricity · mapped topic