Patent ID: 9419964
Filing Date: 2016-08-16
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A companion device based system for sharing an application context and authorization context between a consumer premises equipment (CPE) device comprising at least one of a television or a set top box and a companion device comprising at least one of a hand held computing device, a smart phone, a tablet, or a laptop or a personal computer, the companion device system comprising: a companion device search request transmitter for transmitting a search request using a service discovery protocol; a companion device receiver for receiving a response to the search request from the CPE device; a companion device authorization context creating processor which creates an authorization context, the authorization context comprising metadata that grants access to a resource; a companion device authorization context transmitter which transmits the authorization context to an application resident on the CPE device; a companion device application that establishes a trusted session between the application resident on the CPE and the device application, the device application comprising: a companion device application context data creating processor which creates application context data; and a companion device application context data transmitter which transmits the application context data created to the CPE device, wherein the application context data enables the CPE device to request access to an authorized resource from a resource provider.