Patent ID: 8904021

Claim:
A system comprising: a mobile device to access a multicast capability of an operating system responsive to a user interacting with at least one of an selector on a header bar of a browser application of the mobile device and an indicator on a menu bar of the operating system of the mobile device; a media device; and a communication dongle that communicatively couples the mobile device with the media device through a local area network that is commonly shared between the mobile device and the communication dongle, wherein the mobile device determines if there is an enabling application resident on the communication dongle physically coupled on a port of the media device that is compatible with at least one of the browser application of the mobile device and the operating system on the mobile device when a multicast message is broadcast from the operating system to the communication dongle communicatively coupled to the mobile device through the local area network, and wherein at least one of the operating system of the mobile device and the browser application of the mobile device communicates at least one of a launch sequence and a mirror sequence from at least one of the operating system of the mobile device and the browser application of the mobile device to the communication dongle after establishing a session between the mobile device and the communication dongle, wherein a compatible application automatically launches on the communication dongle on a second display of the media device based on the launch sequence, and wherein a primary output display of the mobile device is automatically switched from a first display physically coupled with the mobile device to a second display physically coupled with the media device based on the mirror sequence.