Making Televisions Connected and Collaborative

摘要

A television interface unit (TVIU) allows users to use a client device to select content from internet for watching on a television and to control the presentation of the content on the television. The TVIU sends web-pages from the internet to the client device. The user can select a web page comprising digital content received from the TVIU and indicate to the TVIU to present the same content on a television. The client device can be disconnected from the TVIU to perform other activities and subsequently reconnected to the TVIU to resume control of the content presented on the television. A TVIU can be controlled using multiple client devices and a single client device can control multiple TVIUs. The TVIU can be connected to other TVIUs to synchronize viewing of content on multiple televisions, thereby allowing social interaction based on internet content presented on a television.