Patent ID: 7965826

Claim:
An apparatus for collaborating between a video device, a video content source, and a telephonic device, comprising: means for outputting video content received from a source of video content; means for recognizing the presence of a telephonic device of a selected user; means for communicating over a first, short-range wireless, communication path with the telephonic device of the selected user; wherein the telephonic device of said user is configured to support simultaneous communication over said first communication path as well as over a second, long-range, communication path; and means for controlling the display of video content and annunciating progress of a call received by the telephonic device over the second communication path in response to short-range communications received from said telephonic device over said first communication path and for pausing of non-real-time content playback and/or the storage of real-time content within a storage media for later playback in response to the call progress of a call on the long-distance communications received by the telephonic device.