Patent ID: 8880491
Filing Date: 2014-11-04
Classification: G06F,H04N,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: identifying, at a portable computing device, media content that is accessible from a remote computing device via a network; receiving user input associated with a particular media content item of the media content, the user input indicating selection of an option to send media to a second device, wherein the user input does not identify the second device; generating a message in response to the user input, wherein the message includes information identifying the particular media content item; sending the message from the portable computing device to an application server; receiving, at the portable computing device from the application server, a query to specify a destination device for the particular media content from a listing of available destination devices when the application server identifies more than one available destination device; and sending, from the portable computing device to the application server, a second message that causes the application server to send information to the destination device specified in the second message without routing the information to the destination device via the portable computing device, wherein the information causes the destination device to automatically play the particular media content item.