Automatic communications between networked devices such as televisions and mobile devices
Abstract:
A method, apparatus and system related to zero configuration communication between a sandboxed program and a networked service are disclosed. In one aspect a system includes a networked device configured to announce a networked service to a discovery service, and/or perform the discovery service for a private network; and/or a client device configured to execute a sandboxed program in a security sandbox. The system also includes automatically instantiating a connection between the sandboxed program and the networked device and/or the networked service. The discovery agent may be running with the sandboxed program is configured to query the discovery service for a service information associated with of the networked device and/or the networked service. The service information may include a global unique identifier (GUID), an alphanumeric name, a public address pair, and/or a private address pair.
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