Patent ID: 9015230
Filing Date: 2015-04-21
Classification: H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method for operating a gateway having at least one communications interface and processing circuitry, the method comprising: establishing communications with a service provider device; establishing communications with a serviced thin client device having thin client characteristics; receiving serviced thin client device display structure instructions by at least one of the serviced thin client device, the service provider device, and a cloud server; receiving streamed content from the service provider device; receiving an Internet browsing session content hosted by the cloud server, wherein the cloud server collects information from the serviced thin client device via a template in relation to an Internet browsing session to produce the Internet browsing session content; combining the streamed content with the Internet browsing session content per the serviced thin client device display structure instructions to form merged streamed content accommodating thin client functionality; and transmitting, by the gateway, the merged streamed content to the serviced thin client device, wherein the serviced client device is configured to generate a composite streamed video image from the merged streamed content.