Automated discovery and launch of an application on a network enabled device

• US 9,591,381 B2
• Filed: 09/04/2013
• Issued: 03/07/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 11/26/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samba TV Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Free Stream Media Corporation
• Inventors: Harrison, David
• Primary Examiner(s): Ibrahim, Mohamed
• Application Number:
  US14/017,445
• Publication Number:
  US 20140007187A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,280 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/783 using metadata automatically derived from the content
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/10 Protecting distributed programs or content, e.g. vending or licensing of copyrighted material protection in video systems or pay television H04N7/16 ; Digital rights management [DRM]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/53 by executing in a restricted environment, e.g. sandbox or secure virtual machine
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/033 Test or assess software
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/14 Digital output to display device ; Cooperation and interconnection of the display device with other functional units
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0255 based on user history
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0269 based on user profile or attribute
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 17/02 using a radio link
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/18 for broadcast or conference , e.g. multicast
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2101/668 Internet protocol [IP] address subnets
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/2514 between local and global IP addresses
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/2517 using port numbers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/256 NAT traversal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/2575 using address mapping retrieval, e.g. simple traversal of user datagram protocol through session traversal utilities for NAT [STUN]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/4511 using domain name system [DNS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/4541 Directories for service discovery
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/5007 Internet protocol [IP] addresses
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/10 for controlling access to devices or network resources
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/102 Entity profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1069 Session establishment or de-establishment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/61 : for supporting one-way streaming services, e.g. Internet radio
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 : based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 : in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/141 : Setup of application sessions admission control or resource allocation in data switching networks H04L47/70
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 : Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23424 : involving splicing one content stream with another content stream, e.g. for inserting or substituting an advertisement
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2541 : Rights Management protecting software against unauthorised usage in a vending or licensing environment G06F21/10; security in data switching network management H04L41/28; security management or policies for network security H04L63/20; access security in wireless networks H04W12/08
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/278 : Content descriptor database or directory service for end-user access details of content or meta data based information retrieval of video data in video databases G06F16/739
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4126 : The peripheral being portable, e.g. PDAs or mobile phones
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41407 : embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4147 : PVR [Personal Video Recorder] H04N5/76 takes precedence ; arrangements for broadcast with accumulation-type receivers H04H20/40
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/435 : Processing of additional data, e.g. decrypting of additional data, reconstructing software from modules extracted from the transport stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4415 : using biometric characteristics of the user, e.g. by voice recognition or fingerprint scanning cryptography using biological data H04L9/3231; authentication in networks using biometric H04L63/0861
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/466 : Learning process for intelligent management, e.g. learning user preferences for recommending movies services using the results of monitoring in broadcast systems H04H60/61
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6175 : involving transmission via Internet broadcast-related systems characterised by the transmission system being the Internet H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/64322 : IP
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/812 : involving advertisement data advertising per se G06Q30/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/835 : Generation of protective data, e.g. certificates protecting software against unauthorised usage in a vending or licensing environment G06F21/10
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8352 : involving content or source identification data, e.g. Unique Material Identifier [UMID]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8358 : involving watermark protecting executable software by watermarking G06F21/16; image watermarking in general G06T1/0021; watermarks inserted in still images for transmission purposes H04N1/32144; inserting watermarks during video coding H04N19/467
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/84 : Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73

Abstract

A method, apparatus and system related to automated discovery and launch of an application on a network enabled device are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of a client device includes determining that a networked media device sharing a local area network common with the client device has automatically detected an audio-visual data and/or an application currently being accessed by a user of the client device. The client device automatically communicates a present state of the audio-visual data and/or the application currently being accessed by the user of the client device to the networked media device. Then, the client device detects that the audio-visual data and/or the application currently being accessed by the user of the client device has been launched on the networked media device. Optionally, a haptic gesture may be applied on the client device by the user to transport the audio-visual data and/or the application from the client device to the networked media device. The application may serve a control point when the present state of the audio-visual data and/or the application currently being accessed by the user of the client device is communicated to the networked media device. In addition, an automatic content recognition algorithm in the client device and/or the networked media device may generate a meta-data associated with content in the present state of the audio-visual data.

Claims

1. A method of a networked device comprising:

automatically detecting that at least one of an audio-visual data and an application currently being accessed by a user of a client device is sharing a local area network common with the networked device;

determining a present state of at least one of the audio-visual data and the application currently being accessed by the user of the client device;

automatically launching at least one of the audio-visual data and the application currently being accessed by the user of the client device on the networked media device;

announcing a sandbox reachable service of the networked device to a discovery module using a processor and memory;

automatically instantiating a communication between the sandbox reachable service of the networked device and a client device when a relay module sends a request from a sandboxed application of the client device to the sandbox reachable service; and

appending a header of a hypertext transfer protocol to permit the networked device to communicate with the sandboxed application as a permitted origin domain through a Cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) algorithm, wherein the header is either one of a origin header when the CORS algorithm is applied and a referrer header in an alternate algorithm, and

wherein the client device to operate in at least one manner such that the client device;

to process an identification data associated with the sandbox reachable service sharing a public address with the client device;

to determine a private address pair of the sandbox reachable service based on the identification data; and

to establish a communication session between the sandboxed application and the sandbox reachable service using a cross-site scripting technique of a security sandbox.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the client device:

to extend a security sandbox with a discovery algorithm and a relay algorithm through the discovery module and the relay module added to the security sandbox; and

to bypass a pairing server having the discovery algorithm and the relay algorithm when establishing the communication between the sandboxed application and the sandbox reachable service when the security is extended with the discovery algorithm and the relay algorithm through the discovery module and the relay module added to the security sandbox.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein the client device:

to apply the discovery algorithm of the security sandbox to determine that the networked device having the sandbox reachable service communicates in a shared network common to the client device and the networked device; and

to apply the relay algorithm of the security sandbox to establish the communication between the sandboxed application and the sandbox reachable service of the networked device.

4. The method of claim 3:

wherein the discovery algorithm utilizes a protocol comprising at least one of a Bonjour®

protocol, a SSDP protocol, a LSD uTorrent®

protocol, a multicast protocol, an anycast protocol, and another Local Area Network (LAN) based protocol that discovers services in a LAN based on a broadcast from any one of an operating system service, the security sandbox, the client device, the sandbox reachable service, and the networked device.

5. The method of claim 4:

wherein a cookie associated with the security sandbox is used to store a remote access token on a storage of the client device,

wherein the remote access token identifies at least one of a set of communicable private Internet Protocol (IP) addresses and hardware addresses associated with sandbox reachable services that previously operated on a common shared network with the client device, and

wherein the client device can communicate with the sandbox reachable services that previously operated on the common shared network through the remote access token.

6. The method of claim 5:

wherein the client device and the networked device reside on networks that are incommunicable with each other comprising at least one of a firewall separation, a different network separation, a physical separation, an unreachable connection separation, and

wherein the sandboxed application of the security sandbox of the client device and the sandbox reachable service of the networked device communicate with each other through a relay service employed by the pairing server having the discovery module and the relay module to facilitate a trusted communication between the sandboxed application and the sandbox reachable service.

7. The method of claim 6:

wherein the trusted communication is facilitated in a manner such that the sandboxed application never learns at least one of a private IP address and a hardware address of the networked device when;

a first Network Address Translator (NAT) device coupled with a network on which the client device operates to receives communications from a public IP address of a different network on which the sandbox reachable service operates, and

wherein a second NAT device coupled with the different network on which the networked device operates to translates the private IP address of the networked device to the public IP address visible to the sandboxed application.

8. The method of claim 7:

wherein the networked device comprises a plurality of sandbox reachable applications including the sandbox reachable application, and wherein a service agent module of the networked device coordinates communications with the discovery module of at least one of the security sandbox and the pairing server,

wherein the security sandbox is at least one of an operating system on which the sandboxed application is hosted and a browser application of the operating system, and

wherein the networked device is at least one of a television, a projection screen, a multimedia display, a touchscreen display, an audio device, a weather measurement device, a traffic monitoring device, a status update device, a global positioning device, a geospatial estimation device, a tracking device, a bidirectional communication device, a unicast device, a broadcast device, and a multidimensional visual presentation device.

9. The method of claim 8 wherein the client device:

to utilize at least one of a WebSocket and a long polling service message query interface to reduce a latency of message delivery during the trusted communication between the sandboxed application and the sandbox reachable service; and

to optimize a polling period between polling such that it is less than a timeout period of a session through the relay service.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein the client device:

to initiate the relay service through at least one of a series of web pages where information is communicated using hyperlinks that point at the pairing server, and a form having a confirmation dialog that is submitted back to the pairing server, and

wherein a global unique identifier is masked through the pairing server when the confirmation dialog is served from the pairing server.

11. The method of claim 1 wherein the client device:

to access a pairing server when processing the identification data associated with the sandbox reachable service sharing the public address with the client device,

wherein the pairing server performs a discovery lookup of any devices that have announced that they share the public address associated with the client device, and

wherein the sandbox reachable service announces itself to the pairing server prior to the establishment of the communication session between the sandboxed application and the sandbox reachable service.

12. The method of claim 11 further comprising at least one of:

announcing an availability of the sandbox reachable service across a range of public addresses such that the sandboxed application communicates with the sandbox reachable service in any one of the range of the public addresses; and

communicating at least one of a global unique identifier, a hardware address, and an alphanumeric name to the pairing server along with the private address pair of the sandbox reachable service, and

wherein the private address pair includes a private IP address and a port number associated with the sandbox reachable service.

13. The method of claim 11 further comprising:

eliminating a communication through a centralized infrastructure when the sandboxed application and the sandbox reachable service communicate in a shared network common to the client device and the networked device when the communication is established, wherein the shared network is at least one of a local area network, a multicast network, an anycast network, and a multilan network;

minimizing a latency in the communication session when the sandboxed application and the sandbox reachable service communicate in the shared network common to the client device and the networked device when the communication is established; and

improving privacy in the communication session when the sandboxed application and the sandbox reachable service communicate in the shared network common to the client device and the networked device when the communication is established.

14. The method of claim 1:

wherein the sandboxed application is at least one of a web page, a script, a binary executable, an intermediate bytecode, an abstract syntax tree, and an executable application in a security sandbox,

wherein the sandboxed application comprises at least one of a markup language application such as a HyperText Markup Language 5 (HTML5) application, a Javascript®

application, an Adobe®

Flash®

application, a Microsoft®

Silverlight®

application, a JQuery®

application, and an Asynchronous Javascript® and

a XML (AJAX) application, and

wherein an access control algorithm governs a policy through which a secondary authentication is required when establishing a communication between the sandboxed application and the networked device.

15. The method of claim 14 wherein the client device:

to utilize an exception to a same origin policy through a use of at least one of a hyperlink, a form, the script, a frame, a header, and an image when establishing the communication between the sandboxed application and the sandbox reachable service.

16. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

accessing the application on the client device serving as a control point when the present state of at least one of the audio-visual data and the application currently being accessed by the user of the client device is communicated to the networked media device; and

utilizing an automatic content recognition algorithm in at least one of the client device and the networked media device to generate a meta-data associated with content in the present state of the audio-visual data.

17. A system comprising:

a networked device to launch at least one of an audio-visual data and an application currently being accessed in a local area network in which the networked device is affiliated; and

a client device sharing the local area network with the networked device to automatically communicate a present state of at least one of the audio-visual data and the application currently being accessed to the networked media device;

constrain an executable environment in a security sandbox, to execute a sandboxed application in the security sandbox, and to automatically instantiate a connection between the sandboxed application and the sandbox reachable service of the networked device;

to process an identification data associated with the sandbox reachable service sharing a public address with the client device;

to determine a private address pair of the sandbox reachable service based on the identification data; and

to establish a communication session between the sandboxed application and the sandbox reachable service using a cross-site scripting technique of the security sandbox.

18. The system of claim 17 wherein the client device:

to extend the security sandbox with a discovery algorithm and a relay algorithm through the discovery module and a relay module added to the security sandbox, and

to bypass a pairing server having the discovery algorithm and the relay algorithm when establishing the connection between the sandboxed application and the sandbox reachable service when the security is extended with the discovery algorithm and the relay algorithm through the discovery module and the relay module added to the security sandbox.

19. The system of claim 18 wherein the client device:

to apply the discovery algorithm of the security sandbox to determine that the networked device having the sandbox reachable service communicates in a shared network common to the client device and the networked device, and

to apply the relay algorithm of the security sandbox to establish the connection between the sandboxed application and the sandbox reachable service of the networked device.

20. The system of claim 19:

wherein the discovery algorithm utilizes a protocol comprising at least one of a Bonjour®

protocol, a SSDP protocol, a LSD uTorrent®

protocol, a multicast protocol, an anycast protocol, and another Local Area Network (LAN) based protocol that discovers services in a LAN based on a broadcast from any one of an operating system service, the security sandbox, the client device, the sandbox reachable service, and the networked device.

21. The system of claim 20:

wherein a cookie associated with the security sandbox is used to store a remote access token on a storage of the client device,

wherein the remote access token identifies at least one of a set of communicable private Internet Protocol (IP) addresses and hardware addresses associated with sandbox reachable services that previously operated on a common shared network with the client device, and

wherein the client device can communicate with the sandbox reachable services that previously operated on the common shared network through the remote access token.

22. The system of claim 21:

wherein the client device and the networked device reside on networks that are incommunicable with each other comprising at least one of a firewall separation, a different network separation, a physical separation, an unreachable connection separation, and

wherein the sandboxed application of the security sandbox of the client device and the sandbox reachable service of the networked device communicate with each other through a relay service employed by the pairing server having the discovery module and the relay module to facilitate a trusted communication between the sandboxed application and the sandbox reachable service.

23. The system of claim 22:

wherein the trusted communication is facilitated in a manner such that the sandboxed application never learns at least one of a private IP address and a hardware address of the networked device when;

a first Network Address Translator (NAT) device coupled with a network on which the client device operates to receives communications from a public IP address of a different network on which the sandbox reachable service operates, and

wherein a second NAT device coupled with the different network on which the networked device operates to translates the private IP address of the networked device to the public IP address visible to the sandboxed application.

24. The system of claim 23:

wherein the networked device comprises a plurality of sandbox reachable applications including the sandbox reachable application, and wherein a service agent module of the networked device coordinates communications with the discovery module of at least one of the security sandbox and the pairing server,

wherein the security sandbox is at least one of an operating system on which the sandboxed application is hosted and a browser application of the operating system, and

wherein the networked device is at least one of a television, a projection screen, a multimedia display, a touchscreen display, an audio device, a weather measurement device, a traffic monitoring device, a status update device, a global positioning device, a geospatial estimation device, a tracking device, a bidirectional communication device, a unicast device, a broadcast device, and a multidimensional visual presentation device.

25. The system of claim 24 wherein the client device:

to utilize at least one of a WebSocket and a long polling service message query interface to reduce a latency of message delivery during the trusted communication between the sandboxed application and the sandbox reachable service, and

to optimize a polling period between polling such that it is less than a timeout period of a session through the relay service.

26. The system of claim 25 wherein the client device:

to initiate the relay service through at least one of a series of web pages where information is communicated using hyperlinks that point at the pairing server, and a form having a confirmation dialog that is submitted back to the pairing server, and

wherein a global unique identifier is masked through the pairing server when the confirmation dialog is served from the pairing server.

27. The system of claim 17 wherein the client device:

to access a pairing server when processing the identification data associated with the sandbox reachable service sharing the public address with the client device,

wherein the pairing server performs a discovery lookup of any device that have announced that they share the public address associated with the client device, and

wherein the sandbox reachable service announces itself to the pairing server prior to the establishment of the communication session between the sandboxed application and the sandbox reachable service.

28. The system of claim 27 wherein the networked device to at least one of:

announce a sandbox reachable service of the networked device to a discovery module using a processor and memory,

announce an availability of the sandbox reachable service across a range of public addresses such that the sandboxed application communicates with the sandbox reachable service in any one of the range of the public addresses,

communicate at least one of a global unique identifier and an alphanumeric name to the pairing server along with at least one of a hardware address associated with the networked device, a public address pair associated with a sandbox reachable service of the networked device, and a private address pair associated with the sandbox reachable service of the networked device, and

wherein the private address pair includes a private IP address and a port number associated with the sandbox reachable service.

29. The system of claim 28 wherein the client device:

to eliminate a communication through a centralized infrastructure when the sandboxed application and the sandbox reachable service communicate in a shared network common to the client device and the networked device when the connection is established, wherein the shared network is at least one of a local area network, a multicast network, an anycast network, and a multilan network;

to minimize a latency in the communication session when the sandboxed application and the sandbox reachable service communicate in the shared network common to the client device and the networked device when the connection is established; and

to improve privacy in the communication session when the sandboxed application and the sandbox reachable service communicate in the shared network common to the client device and the networked device when the connection is established.

30. The system of claim 17:

wherein the sandboxed application is at least one of a web page, a script, a binary executable, an intermediate bytecode, an abstract syntax tree, and an executable application in the security sandbox,

wherein the sandboxed application comprises at least one of a markup language application such as a HyperText Markup Language 5 (HTML5) application, a Javascript®

application, an Adobe®

Flash®

application, a Microsoft®

Silverlight®

application, a JQuery®

application, and an Asynchronous Javascript® and

a XML (AJAX) application, and

wherein an access control algorithm governs a policy through which a secondary authentication is required when establishing a communication between the sandboxed application and the networked device.

31. The system of claim 30 wherein the client device:

to utilize an exception to a same origin policy through a use of at least one of a hyperlink, a form, the script, a frame, a header, and an image when establishing the connection between the sandboxed application and the sandbox reachable service.

32. The system of claim 17:

wherein the communication session is established by appending a header of a hypertext transfer protocol to permit the networked device to communicate with the sandboxed application as a permitted origin domain through a Cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) algorithm, wherein the header is either one of a origin header when the CORS algorithm is applied and a referrer header in an alternate algorithm.

33. A method of a client device comprising:

determining that a networked media device sharing a local area network common with the client device has automatically detected at least one of an audio-visual data and an application currently being accessed by a user of the client device;

automatically communicating a present state of at least one of the audio-visual data and the application currently being accessed by the user of the client device to the networked media device;

detecting that at least one of the audio-visual data and the application currently being accessed by the user of the client device has been launched on the networked media device;

constraining an executable environment in a security sandbox;

executing a sandboxed application in the executable environment using a processor and a memory;

automatically instantiating a connection between the sandboxed application and a sandbox reachable service of a networked media device;

processing an identification data associated with the sandbox reachable service sharing a public address with the client device;

determining a private address pair of the sandbox reachable service based on the identification data;

establishing a communication session between the sandboxed application and the sandbox reachable service using a cross-site scripting technique of the security sandbox; and

appending a header of a hypertext transfer protocol to permit the networked media device to communicate with the sandboxed application as a permitted origin domain through a Cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) algorithm, wherein the header is either one of a origin header when the CORS algorithm is applied and a referrer header in an alternate algorithm.

34. The method of claim 33:

wherein the client device and the networked media device reside on networks that are incommunicable with each other comprising at least one of a firewall separation, a different network separation, a physical separation, an unreachable connection separation, and

wherein the sandboxed application of the security sandbox of the client device and the sandbox reachable service of the networked media device communicate with each other through a relay service employed by a pairing server having a discovery module and a relay module to facilitate a trusted communication between the sandboxed application and the sandbox reachable service.

35. The method of claim 34:

wherein the trusted communication is facilitated in a manner such that the sandboxed application never learns at least one of a private IP address and a hardware address of the networked media device when;

a first Network Address Translator (NAT) device coupled with a network on which the client device operates to receive communications from a public IP address of a different network on which the sandbox reachable service operates, and

wherein a second NAT device coupled with the different network on which the networked media device operates to translate the private IP address of the networked media device to the public IP address visible to the sandboxed application.

36. The method of claim 35:

wherein the networked media device comprises a plurality of sandbox reachable applications including the sandbox reachable application, and wherein a service agent module of the networked media device coordinates communications with the discovery module of at least one of the security sandbox and the pairing server,

wherein the security sandbox is at least one of an operating system on which the sandboxed application is hosted and a browser application of the operating system, and

wherein the networked media device is at least one of a television, a projection screen, a multimedia display, a touchscreen display, an audio device, and a multidimensional visual presentation device.

37. The method of claim 36 further comprising:

utilizing at least one of a WebSocket and a long polling service message query interface to reduce a latency of message delivery during the trusted communication between the sandboxed application and the sandbox reachable service; and

optimizing a polling period between polling such that it is less than a timeout period of a session through the relay service.

38. The method of claim 37 further comprising:

initiating the relay service through at least one of a series of web pages where information is communicated using hyperlinks that point at the pairing server, and a form having a confirmation dialog that is submitted back to the pairing server, and

wherein a global unique identifier is masked through the pairing server when the confirmation dialog is served from the pairing server.

39. The method of claim 33 further comprising:

extending the security sandbox with a discovery algorithm and a relay algorithm through a discovery module and a relay module added to the security sandbox; and

bypassing a pairing server having the discovery algorithm and the relay algorithm when establishing the connection between the sandboxed application and the sandbox reachable service when the security sandbox is extended with the discovery algorithm and the relay algorithm through the discovery module and the relay module added to the security sandbox.

40. The method of claim 39 further comprising:

applying the discovery algorithm of the security sandbox to determine that the networked media device having the sandbox reachable service communicates in a shared network common to the client device and the networked media device; and

applying the relay algorithm of the security sandbox to establish the connection between the sandboxed application and the sandbox reachable service of the networked media device.

41. The method of claim 40:

wherein the discovery algorithm utilizes a protocol comprising at least one of a Bonjour®

protocol, a SSDP protocol, a LSD uTorrent®

protocol, a multicast protocol, an anycast protocol, and another Local Area Network (LAN) based protocol that discovers services in a LAN based on a broadcast from any one of an operating system service, the security sandbox, the client device, the sandbox reachable service, and the networked media device.

42. The method of claim 33 further comprising:

accessing a pairing server when processing the identification data associated with the sandbox reachable service sharing the public address with the client device,

wherein the pairing server performs a discovery lookup of any device that has announced that it shares the public address associated with the client device, and

wherein the sandbox reachable service announces itself to the pairing server prior to the establishment of the communication session between the sandboxed application and the sandbox reachable service.

43. The method of claim 42 further comprising at least one of:

wherein the sandbox reachable service announces an availability of the sandbox reachable service across a range of public addresses such that the sandboxed application communicates with the sandbox reachable service in any one of the range of the public addresses,

wherein the range of public addresses is known by the pairing server so that the announcement of the availability of the sandbox reachable service across the range of public addresses is unnecessary,

wherein the sandbox reachable service communicates at least one of a global unique identifier and an alphanumeric name to the pairing server along with the private address pair of the sandbox reachable service, and

wherein the private address pair includes a private IP address and a port number associated with the sandbox reachable service.

44. The method of claim 33 further comprising:

wherein the sandboxed application is at least one of a web page, a script, a binary executable, an intermediate bytecode, an abstract syntax tree, and an executable application in the security sandbox,

wherein the sandboxed application comprises at least one of a markup language application such as a HyperText Markup Language 5 (HTML5) application, a Javascript®

application, an Adobe®

Flash®

application, a Microsoft®

Silverlight®

application, a JQuery®

application, and an Asynchronous Javascript® and

a XML (AJAX) application, and

wherein an access control algorithm governs a policy through which a secondary authentication is required when establishing a communication between the sandboxed application and the networked media device.

45. The method of claim 44 further comprising:

utilizing an exception to a same origin policy through a use of at least one of a hyperlink, a form, the script, a frame, a header, and an image when establishing the connection between the sandboxed application and the sandbox reachable service.

46. The method of claim 33 further comprising:

utilizing the application as a control point when the present state of at least one of the audio-visual data and the application currently being accessed by the user of the client device is communicated to the networked media device; and

utilizing an automatic content recognition algorithm in at least one of the client device and the networked media device to generate a meta-data associated with content in the present state of the audio-visual data,

wherein a haptic gesture is applied on the client device by the user to transport at least one of the audio-visual data and the application from the client device to the networked media device.

47. The method of claim 33 further comprising:

eliminating a communication through a centralized infrastructure when the sandboxed application and the sandbox reachable service communicate in a shared network common to the client device and the networked media device when the connection is established, wherein the shared network is at least one of the local area network, a multicast network, an anycast network, and a multilan network;

minimizing a latency in the communication session when the sandboxed application and the sandbox reachable service communicate in the shared network common to the client device and the networked media device when the connection is established; and

improving privacy in the communication session when the sandboxed application and the sandbox reachable service communicate in the shared network common to the client device and the networked media device when the connection is established.

48. The method of claim 33:

wherein a cookie associated with the security sandbox is used to store a remote access token on a storage of the client device,

wherein the remote access token identifies at least one of a set of communicable private Internet Protocol (IP) addresses and hardware addresses associated with sandbox reachable services that previously operated on a common shared network with the client device, and

wherein the client device can communicate with the sandbox reachable services that previously operated on the common shared network through the remote access token.