Remote control for wireless control of system and displaying of compressed video on a display on the remote
AssigneeTerayon Communication Systems, Inc.
InventorSelim Shlomo Rakib
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Abstract
A system for wireless remote control of a gateway and ordering or invocation of services provided by a headend. The remote control includes a video display and user input device or keyboard and can decompress and display compressed streaming video in some embodiments. Some species of the remote control can act as web browsers, appliance control, TIVO function control, an IP telephony telephone, a cellular telephone and/or an MP3 player. In some embodiments, the gateway and/or headend can implement TIVO-like functions under control from a wireless remote of custom design or implemented on a Personal Digital Assistant.
Claims11
A wireless remote control comprising:
- a personal digital assistant or other handheld device (both hereafter referred to as a personal digital assistant) having a host processor, a display capable of displaying video, a user input device for receiving commands and/or text input, and audio input/output circuitry, and memory;
- a wireless transceiver coupled to said personal digital assistant host processor for transmitting data to and receiving data from another wireless transceiver;
- and wherein said memory stores an operating system and one or more programs to control said host processor to display digital video recording and playback menus on said display of said personal digital assistant and to monitor for input of digital video recording or playback commands entered via said user input device and for sending said commands to a digital video recording and playback enabled gateway or via said gateway and a hybrid fiber coaxial cable or DSL data path to a digital video recording and playback enabled headend to invoke the desired digital video recording or playback function such that said personal digital assistant can act as a remote control for said digital video recording and playback enabled gateway or said digital video recording and playback enabled headend.
A wireless remote control comprising:
- a host processor, a display capable of displaying video coupled to said host processor, a user input device for receiving commands and/or text input also coupled to said host processor, and a memory coupled to said host processor;
- a wireless transceiver coupled to said host processor for transmitting data to and receiving data from another wireless transceiver;
- and wherein said memory stores an operating system and one or more programs to control said host processor to display digital video recording and playback menus on said display and to monitor for input of digital video recording or playback commands entered via said user input device and for sending said commands to a digital video recording and playback enabled gateway or via said gateway and a hybrid fiber coaxial cable or DSL data path to a digital video recording and playback enabled headend to invoke a desired digital video recording or playback function such that said remote control can wirelessly control said digital video recording and playback functions of said gateway and/or said digital video recording and playback enabled headend, and wherein wherein said memory is further programmed with one or more programs to control said host processor to act as a wireless web browser by receiving user commands issued by a user through said input device and transmitting said commands wirelessly to said gateway which causes said gateway to transmit commands via said hybrid fiber coaxial cable or DSL data path to said headend to cause said headend to control a server coupled to a wide area network to fetch data from one or more servers of said wide area network and transmit said fetched data back to said host processor of said personal digital assistant via said headend and said customer premises gateway for display on said display.
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