Interaction With Multiple Connected Devices

摘要

Methods and systems for sharing content includes detecting a secondary device that is paired to a main device. The main device is used to render publicly viewable content. Each secondary device is associated with a user and is used to access and view content provided by one or more content sources over a network and share the content with the main device and with other secondary devices. Selection of a multimedia content for sharing, is detected at the secondary device. The selection causes the rendering of the multimedia content at a display screen of the secondary device. Share attributes defined for the multimedia content selected for sharing, is identified on the secondary device. The multimedia content selected for sharing is populated and is available for viewing on the main device and/or one or more secondary devices of other users in accordance to the defined share attributes.

主权项

1. A method for sharing multimedia content, comprising:
detecting a secondary device that is paired to a main device, the main device used to render publicly viewable multimedia content, the secondary device configured to access content provided by one or more content sources over a network and share the content with the main device; detecting selection of a multimedia content at the secondary device, for sharing, the selection causes rendering of the multimedia content at a display screen of the secondary device; identifying share attributes for the multimedia content selected for sharing, on the secondary device; and presenting the selected multimedia content for rendering on the main device in accordance to the defined share attributes.