Abstract: Example apparatus and methods concern a first device (e.g., smart phone, tablet, laptop) that may discover and control remote media sessions (e.g., movie, game, book, podcast) running on remote devices (e.g., smart television, game console). The first device may run a local shell process that interacts with a shell process or other process on a remote device. The local shell process may acquire information about exposed remote media sessions. The local shell process may present a user interface on the first device. The user interface may provide user interface elements (e.g., buttons) for controlling a remote media session. The user interface and user interface elements are native to the first device. The user interface may allow navigating (e.g., flipping) between multiple remote media sessions that are discovered. The local shell process may also discover media sessions local to the first device and include those sessions in the user interface.

Abstract: A system and method that enables users operating originating devices, such as PC's, laptop computers, PDA's, pocket PC's, cell phones, etc., to print documents, images, and Web pages via a “driverless” print server (DPS) system without requiring any printing device drivers to be loaded on the originating device. The server system utilizes a table driven mechanism to process and handle various printer events generated by various software applications pertaining to the documents desired to be printed by operators of the originating devices. Print data corresponding to a document is then directed over various networks to a selected target printer. The system provides two-way communication between the DPS server computer and the originating device as well as two-way communication between the DPS server computer and the target printers.