Technique to coordinate activities between a content device and a wireless device based on context awareness

摘要

A content device such as a digital video recorder may be coupled to a television and a viewer of the television may receive an incoming call on a wireless device such as a mobile phone while viewing content on the television. The content device and wireless device may be paired with each other and the wireless device may send a notification to the content device in response to detecting an incoming call. The content device may pause the program displayed on the television and then initiate recording of the program. The wireless device may send a second notification to the content device in response to ending the call and the content device may stop recording the program and resume the program on the television. The coordination between the content device and the wireless device and the television may be based on the context awareness and independent of the user intervention.

主权项

1. A content device coupled to a television, comprising:
a front end to couple the content device to the television, a device discovery block to discover one or more wireless devices present within vicinity of the content device, a processor coupled to the device discovery block, wherein the processor is to, pause the television in response to receiving a first notification from the one or more wireless devices discovered within the vicinity of the content device, start recording a program displayed on the television, resume display of the content in response to receiving a second notification from the one or more wireless devices discovered within the vicinity of the content device, and stop recording the program displayed on the television, wherein the content device is to control the television and recording of the program based on context awareness and without user intervention, wherein the device discovery block is to, pair the content device with the one or more wireless devices discovered within the vicinity of the content device, send device discovery signals before getting a response discovery signal, and determine whether the one or more wireless devices are present within the vicinity of the content device based on the response discovery signals.