Patent ID: 8555322
Filing Date: 2013-10-08
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: receiving television content via a tuner of a tuner device; establishing a shared television session between rendering devices that share the tuner of the tuner device to receive the television content; receiving a join request to join the shared television session from an additional rendering device; causing display of the join request at one or more of the rendering devices that share the tuner; joining the additional rendering device to the shared television session if an approval of the join request is received from at least one of the rendering devices that share the tuner; receiving a tuner configuration input to change the television content from one of the rendering devices that share the tuner; receiving different television content via the tuner of the tuner device according to the tuner configuration input; and communicating tuner update data associated with the tuner configuration input to update the rendering devices that share the tuner of the tuner device to receive the different television content.