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Authenticating users to media-player devices on online social networks

  • US 10,447,679 B2
  • Filed: 08/11/2017
  • Issued: 10/15/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/26/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising, by one or more computing devices of an online social network:

  • receiving, from a media-player device, a request for an authentication key;

    sending, to the media-player device in response to the request, an authentication key for broadcast by the media-player device, the authentication key being generated for a user who is currently logged into the online social network via a native application on a client system, and the authentication key being used to register the user to the media-player device, the registration enabling the user to access media content via the media-player device;

    receiving, from the native application on the client system, the authentication key;

    verifying the authentication key received from the native application on the client system; and

    sending the verification to the native application on the client system authorizing the native application to send location information of the client system and social-networking information of the user to the media-player device, the authorization being used to register the user as an owner or a guest of the media-player device, wherein the user is registered as a guest if the request for an authentication key was sent to the media-player device by a client system of a registered owner of the media-player device.

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