Patent ID: 8712631

Claim:
A method for enabling remote services on an internet coupled device (ICD), comprising: providing, on a handheld computing device, a first application program; establishing, on a first communication link between the handheld device and the ICD, a short range wireless network connection between the handheld computing device and the ICD, wherein the ICD is a personal computer or a television and wherein the network connection is via Bluetooth or wi-fi; transmitting, via the first communication link to a second application program on the ICD, credentials for accessing a plurality of services via one or more remote servers; transmitting, on a second communication link between the ICD and the one or more remote servers, a request to authorize the ICD to access one or more accounts of the user; transmitting to the handheld device along a third communication link directly between one or more remote servers and the handheld device, a request to verify that the ICD is to be given access to one or more accounts of a user of the handheld computing device; receiving, at the ICD and along the second communication link, a multimedia stream associated with the one or more user accounts in response to a verification provided by the handheld device that the ICD is to be given access to one or more accounts of the user; and terminating, in response to the handheld computing device leaving communication range of the ICD, the rights of the ICD to access the one or more user accounts via the second communication link.