Abstract: Software receives a communication from a smart-television device. The communication includes a device identifier for the smart-television device and a geo-location for the smart-television device. The geo-location results from collaborative location detection that uses stored geo-positions previously received from one or more mobile devices positioned proximate to the smart-television device. The software causes the smart-television device to display a first view that includes a visual icon and a message identifying a connected-television service. The software receives a geo-position for a mobile device. Upon determining that the geo-location of the smart-television device is proximate to the geo-position of the mobile device, the software causes the mobile device to display a second view that includes the visual icon. The software receives a communication from the mobile device that indicates a match between the visual icon in the first view and the visual icon in the second view and connects the devices.

Abstract: A method for dynamically modifying addressing information within a modular software system controlling a telecommunications switching system. Conventional telecommunications exchanges divide each exchange into discrete function blocks with a limited number of functions being performed by each block, thus requiring frequent interaction between blocks through the exchange of software signals. Such exchanges are more complicated in stored program control systems in which individual blocks are removed from memory and reloaded in different memory locations and in which revised blocks contain modified symbol addresses. The present invention utilizes a global signal distribution table loaded with global signal numbers for types of software signals, as well as local signal numbers of corresponding tasks given function blocks. This method overcomes disadvantages typically associated with linking and loading of software modules by delaying linking and performing it dynamically as each block is executed.