Allowing mobile device to remotely control authorized subset of controllable devices utilizing content available in registered guest room

A hospitality media system comprising:

• a plurality of controllable devices;
• and
• a controller coupled to the controllable devices;
• wherein, by one or more processors of the controller executing a plurality of software instructions loaded from the one or more storage devices, the controller is configured to:
• receive information from a mobile device operated by a guest of the hospitality establishment via a computer network;
• query a database to lookup a registered guest room according to the information received from the mobile device;
• define an authorized subset of the controllable devices according to the registered guest room, the authorized subset being one or more of the controllable devices associated with the registered guest room that the mobile device is authorized to operate;
• determine a list of media content including only content that is available in the registered guest room, wherein at least two different guest rooms of the hospitality establishment have a different sets of content available therein;
• transfer the list of media content to the mobile device via the computer network;
• and
• pass one or more commands received from the mobile device to one or more of the authorized subset of the controllable devices thereby allowing the mobile device to initiate one or more media functions on the one or more of the authorized subset of the controllable devices utilizing first content selected from the list of media content until an occurrence of a de-authorization event.

A method of providing remote control of a plurality of controllable devices in a hospitality establishment, the method comprising:

• receiving information from a mobile device operated by a guest of the hospitality establishment via a computer network;
• querying a database to lookup a registered guest room according to the information received from the mobile device;
• defining an authorized subset of the controllable devices according to the registered guest room, the authorized subset being one or more of the controllable devices associated with the registered guest room that the mobile device is authorized to operate;
• determining a list of media content including only content that is available in the registered guest room, wherein at least two different guest rooms of the hospitality establishment have a different sets of content available therein;
• transferring the list of media content to the mobile device via the computer network;
• and
• passing one or more commands received from the mobile device to one or more of the authorized subset of the controllable devices thereby allowing the mobile device to initiate one or more media functions on the one or more of the authorized subset of the controllable devices utilizing first content selected from the list of media content until an occurrence of a de-authorization event.