Remote-controlled system, remote-control method
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
InventorShigeyuki Umeda
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Abstract
A remote-reservation apparatus, which is a remote-controlled one, receives reservations command for recording broadcast TV programs, from mobile telephones via the Internet. The apparatus generates reservation tables for the mobile telephones, respectively. When accessed by any mobile telephone, the remote-reservation apparatus identifies this mobile telephone and stores the reservation data transmitted from the mobile telephone, into the reservation table for the mobile telephone identified.
Claims10
A system to be controlled by a control signal transmitted from a remote controller, said system comprising:
- a controller-identifying unit configured to identify remote controllers;
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- a control unit configured to control the system, in units of the remote controllers, in accordance with a control signal transmitted from any one of the remote controllers identified by the controller-identifying unit.
An apparatus comprising:
- a receiving unit configured to receive reservation command for recording programs, from data-processing apparatus located at a remote site and connected to the apparatus by a network;
- an apparatus-identifying unit configured to identify the data-processing apparatus;
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- a control unit configured to set and manage reservation data for the data-processing apparatus, in accordance with the reservation command transmitted from the data-processing apparatus identified by the apparatus-identifying unit.
A method of controlling apparatus in accordance with a control signal transmitted from a remote controller, said method comprising:
- identifying remote controllers;
- and
- controlling the apparatus, in units of the remote controllers, in accordance with a control signal transmitted from any one of the remote controllers identified.
A method of receiving reservations command for recording programs, from data-processing apparatus located at a remote site and connected to the remote-reservation apparatus by a network, said method comprising:
- identifying a data-processing apparatus;
- and
- setting and managing reservation data for the data-processing apparatus, in accordance with the reservation command transmitted from the data-processing apparatus identified.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.