Systems and methods for configuration of a controlling device to enable selection of one or more media streams
AssigneeUniversal Electronics Inc.
InventorsMenno Koopmans, Rex Xu, Thomas Hascher
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Abstract
A controlling device has a configurable key. An insert is provided to the configurable key and includes an indicium representative of a media content provider. An image of the indicium or an image of a QR code associated with the indicium is used to assign one or more commands to the configurable key. The one or more commands are used to cause a controllable device to tune to a channel on which the media content provider is being broadcast, to invoke an app associated with the media content provider, to access a website associated with the media content provider, and the like.
Claims12
A non-transitory, computer-readable media having stored thereon instructions executable by a cloud-based server having an associated image search engine for causing the cloud-based server to perform steps comprising:
- using a received image having a media content provider logo and received data indicative of an ecosystem which includes a controlling device to identify a configuration data usable by a controlling device to configure a programmable key of the controlling device such that activation of the programmable key will cause the controlling device to issue one or more commands to a target controllable device within the ecosystem to cause the target controllable device to access the media content provider.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.