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Mobile interface for accessing interactive television applications associated with displayed content

  • US 8,370,878 B2
  • Filed: 03/17/2010
  • Issued: 02/05/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/17/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method implemented by a media client, the method comprising:

  • presenting, by the media client and on a display device, program content received from a backend server, and an interactive television application that is related to the program content;

    receiving, by the media client and from a mobile device, a request to shift the interactive television application from the display device to the mobile device;

    causing, by the media client and based on receiving the request, the display device to cease presenting the interactive television application;

    retrieving, by the media client and from the backend server, data for the interactive television application;

    based on receiving the request, forwarding, by the media client and to the mobile device, the data for the interactive television application to present on the mobile device;

    receiving, by the media client and from the mobile device, user input for the interactive television application; and

    forwarding, by the media client and to the backend server, the user input.

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