Media return system
AssigneeUniversal Electronics Inc.
InventorsPaul D. Arling, Patrick H. Hayes, John E. Hyatt
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Abstract
A system includes a consumer electronic device adapted to render a media content and a hand-held, portable device having a touch screen display, a transmitter, a receiver, and a processing unit. The processing unit of the hand-held, portable device uses data related to the media content received via the receiver to cause command icons related to rendering of the media content to be defined and displayed in the touch screen display and to cause the transmitter to transmit one or more commands for controlling a functional operation related to rendering of the media content by the consumer electronic device in response to a user interaction with one or more of the command icons caused to displayed in the touch screen display.
Claims16
A system, comprising;
- a consumer electronic device adapted to render a media content;
- and
- a hand-held, portable device having a touch screen display, a transmitter, a receiver, and a processing unit;
- wherein the processing unit of the hand-held, portable device uses data related to the media content received via the receiver to cause command icons related to rendering of the media content to be defined and displayed in the touch screen display and to cause the transmitter to transmit one or more commands for controlling a functional operation related to rendering of the media content by the consumer electronic device in response to a user interaction with one or more of the command icons caused to displayed in the touch screen display.
A hand-held, portable device, comprising:
- a touch screen display, a transmitter, a receiver, and a processing unit;
- wherein the processing unit of the hand-held, portable device uses data related to renderable media content by a consumer electronic device received via the receiver to cause command icons related to rendering of the media content to be defined and displayed in the touch screen display and to cause the transmitter to transmit one or more commands to a consumer electronic device for controlling a functional operation related to rendering of the media content by the consumer electronic device in response to a user interaction with one or more of the command icons caused to displayed in the touch screen display.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.