DEVICE REGISTRATION PROCESS FROM A SECOND DISPLAY

• US 20170230696A1
• Filed: 04/25/2017
• Published: 08/10/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 07/27/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.), Sony Network Entertainment International LLC (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Wong, Ling Jun, Xiong, True, Agnihotri, Davender
• Application Number:
  US15/496,254
• Publication Number:
  US 20170230696A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/005 Language recognition
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/22 Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/30 Distributed recognition, e.g. in client-server systems, for mobile phones or network applications
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/221 Announcement of recognition results
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/223 Execution procedure of a spoken command
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25 Management operations performed by the server for facilitating the content distribution or administrating data related to end-users or client devices, e.g. end-user or client device authentication, learning user preferences for recommending movies maintenance or administration in data networks H04L41/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25816 involving client authentication restricting access to computer systems by authenticating users using a predetermined code G06F21/33; cryptographic authentication protocols H04L9/32; networks authentication protocols H04L63/08; authentication in wireless network security H04W12/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25875 involving end-user authentication restricting access to computer systems by authenticating users using a predetermined code G06F21/33; arrangements for secret or secure communication including means for verifying the identity or authority of a user of the system H04L9/32; networks authentication protocols H04L63/08; authentication in wireless network security H04W12/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41265 having a remote control device for bidirectional communication between the remote control device and client device unidirectional remote control device H04N21/42204
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/441 Acquiring end-user identification , e.g. using personal code sent by the remote control or by inserting a card
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4518 involving characteristics of one or more peripherals, e.g. peripheral type, software version, amount of memory available or display capabilities
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8173 End-user applications, e.g. Web browser, game

Abstract

Apparatus and methods to implement a technique for using a second display with a network-enabled television. In one implementation, this feature allows the user to conveniently register and manage their IPTV device directly from a second display device instead of going to a separate registration website. A typical current situation requires the user to either leave the living room for the PC which is inconvenient or perform the registration directly on the IPTV which often has a poor input interface. The second display could be a smart phone that can often be found beside the user, or a laptop or tablet PC, a desktop PC, or the like. After registration, certain convenient follow-up features can be implemented, such as directly selecting the device for browsing, or inheritance of configurations of other available devices for the newly-registered device.

Claims

1. A method of registering a content playback device using a second display, comprising:

i. establishing a session between a second display and a first server, the session associated with a user account;

ii. on a user interface of the second display, requesting registration information about the content playback device;

iii. on a user interface of the second display, receiving registration information about the content playback device;

iv. associating the content playback device with the user account; and

v. causing the transmission of an authentication credential associated with the content playback device to the first server.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising retrieving information about the registered content playback device from a second server.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving at least one additional datum associated with the content playback device.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the additional datum is selected from the group consisting of:

a MAC address, a serial number, a device code, and a registration code.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

i. receiving a broadcasted code from a content playback device;

ii. requesting confirmation from a user that the content playback device is to be registered with the user account; and

iii. responsive to a positive confirmation that the content playback device is to be registered with the user account, then performing the requesting and receiving registration information steps.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising selecting the content playback device for browsing content items from a service provider through a proxy server.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising inheriting at least one registration setting and associating the inherited registration setting with the content playback device, the registration setting inherited from another content playback device.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the session established is on a registration portal.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the content playback device is an IPTV or a digital video recorder.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the second display is a tablet computer, a smart phone, a laptop computer, a desktop computer, an internet appliance, or a computing device with internet access.

11. The method of claim 4, wherein the additional datum is a registration code, and wherein the registration code is received by the content playback device by a server.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the registration information is received by the content playback device by a server.

13. A non-transitory computer-readable medium, comprising instructions for causing a computing device to implement the method of claim 1.

14. A method of registering a content playback device using a second display, comprising:

i. establishing a session between a second display and a first server, the session associated with a user account;

ii. receiving registration information about a content playback device;

iii. associating the content playback device with the user account; and

iv. receiving an authentication credential associated with the content playback device.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the establishing, the receiving registration information, the associating, and the receiving an authentication credential is performed by a proxy server.

16. The method of claim 14, further comprising affiliating the user account and content playback device with a service provider, the affiliating including transmitting to the service provider at least one user account identifier and the authentication credential.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the affiliating further comprises receiving an inputted code and transmitting the received code to a service provider, such that the service provider transmits a user token and an affiliation token to a server, the tokens to be associated with the user account.

18. The method of claim 14, further comprising unaffiliating the content playback device from a service provider, the unaffiliating including transmitting to the service provider at least one user account identifier and the authentication credential.

19. The method of claim 14, further comprising receiving at least one additional datum about the content playback device.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the additional datum is selected from the group consisting of:

a MAC address, a serial number, a device code, and a registration code.

21. The method of claim 14, wherein the receiving registration information further comprises receiving previously-entered registration information associated with the user account.

22. The method of claim 14, wherein the session established is on a registration portal.

23. The method of claim 14, wherein the registration information is received by the content playback device from the first server.

24. A non-transitory computer-readable medium, comprising instructions for causing a computing device to implement the method of claim 14.