COMMUNICATION DONGLE PHYSICALLY COUPLED WITH A MEDIA DEVICE TO AUTOMATICALLY DISCOVER AND LAUNCH AN APPLICATION ON THE MEDIA DEVICE AND TO ENABLE SWITCHING OF A PRIMARY OUTPUT DISPLAY FROM A FIRST DISPLAY OF A MOBILE DEVICE TO A SECOND DISPLAY OF THE MEDIA DEVICE THROUGH AN OPERATING SYSTEM OF THE MOBILE DEVICE SHARING A LOCAL AREA NETWORK WITH THE COMMUNICATION DONGLE

摘要

A system, apparatus and method related to a communication dongle physically coupled with a media device to automatically discover and launch an application on the media device and to enable switching of a primary output display from a first display of a mobile device to a second display of the media device through an operating system of the mobile device sharing a local area network with the communication dongle is disclosed. In one embodiment, a system includes a mobile device to access a multicast capability of an operating system responsive to a user interacting with an selector on a header bar of a browser application of the mobile device and/or an indicator on a menu bar of the operating system of the mobile device, a media device, and a communication dongle that communicatively couples the mobile device with the media device through a local area network that is commonly shared between the mobile device and/or the communication dongle.