CONTENT AND APPLICATION DOWNLOAD BASED ON A HOME NETWORK SYSTEM CONFIGURATION PROFILE
First Claim
1. A process of identifying and managing applications for use with associated consumer electronic devices in a home network system, the process for execution by a gateway device communicatively coupled with each of the electronic devices via a home network, the gateway device being operative to access the Internet, comprising the steps of:
- (a) determining device ID information associated with at least one selected one of the consumer electronic devices in the home network system;
(b) determining a home network system configuration profile based at least on said device ID information;
(c) providing said home network system configuration profile to a selected server computing system via the Internet;
(d) downloading an application from the selected server computing system, the application being operative to provide a process associated with said selected electronic devices; and
(e) executing said downloaded application at the gateway device to provide a remote interactive process associated with said selected electronic devices.
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Abstract
A system and method is provided for identifying, accessing, and managing service applications for use with associated consumer electronic devices in a home network system. A client side process, executed by a client computing system in the home network system, operates in conjunction with a server side process executed by a server computing system that is coupled with the client computing system via the Internet. The client computing system is implemented by a gateway device coupled with each of the devices via the home network. The client side process includes the steps of: determining device ID information associated with at least one selected one of the consumer electronic devices in the home network system; determining a home network system configuration profile based at least on the device ID information; providing the home network system configuration profile to a selected server computing system via the Internet; downloading an application from the selected server computing system, the application being operative to provide a process associated with the selected electronic devices; and executing the downloaded application at the gateway device to provide a remote interactive process associated with the selected electronic devices.
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37 Claims
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1. A process of identifying and managing applications for use with associated consumer electronic devices in a home network system, the process for execution by a gateway device communicatively coupled with each of the electronic devices via a home network, the gateway device being operative to access the Internet, comprising the steps of:
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(a) determining device ID information associated with at least one selected one of the consumer electronic devices in the home network system; (b) determining a home network system configuration profile based at least on said device ID information; (c) providing said home network system configuration profile to a selected server computing system via the Internet; (d) downloading an application from the selected server computing system, the application being operative to provide a process associated with said selected electronic devices; and (e) executing said downloaded application at the gateway device to provide a remote interactive process associated with said selected electronic devices. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A process of identifying and providing applications associated with consumer electronic devices, the process for execution by a server computing system that is communicatively coupled with at least one client computing system via the Internet, comprising the steps of:
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receiving a home network system configuration profile from a client computing system, the profile including device ID information indicating at least one selected consumer electronic device in a home network system; determining a selected application associated with said selected devices based on said configuration profile; and providing said selected application to the client computing system, said application including instructions executable by the client computing system for providing a process associated with said selected devices. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
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28. A process of identifying and accessing media content for use with associated consumer electronic devices in a home network system, the process for execution by a gateway device communicatively coupled with each of the electronic devices via a home network, the gateway device being operative to access the Internet, comprising the steps of:
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(a) determining device ID information associated with at least one selected one of the consumer electronic devices in the home network system; (b) determining a home network system configuration profile based at least on said device ID information; (c) providing said home network system configuration profile to a selected server computing system via the Internet; and (d) downloading selected media content from the selected server computing system. - View Dependent Claims (29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37)
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