Apparatus, systems and methods to communicate received commands from a receiving device to a mobile device

A wireless mobile device operable to communicate with set top boxes and target destinations, comprising:

• a set top box interface configured to receive a mobile device command from a set top box and configured to automatically acknowledge the received mobile device command, the set top box arranged to process and present audio/visual programming content, wherein the received mobile device command includes at least one image from a stream of audio/visual programming content presented by the set top box and a text-based phrase selected from a plurality of text-based phrases pre-stored in the mobile device, the text-based phrase associated with the audio/visual programming content, the stream having been modified by at least forwarding or reversing the presentation of the stream or wherein the received mobile device command includes a clip of audio/visual programming from the stream of audio/visual programming content presented by the set top box and a text-based message written by a first user;
• a processing system operable to identify a target destination based upon the received mobile device command the target destination including account information associated with a second user, the processing system further operable to form a short message service (SMS) message that includes both text-based message information from the mobile device command and audio/visual programming information from the mobile device command;
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• a transceiver configured to communicate the SMS message from the wireless mobile device toward a second wireless mobile device associated with the identified target destination.

A mobile device, comprising:

• a processing system;
• a set top box interface configured to receive a mobile device command from a set top box and configured to automatically acknowledge the received mobile device command, the set top box arranged to process and present audio/visual programming content, wherein the received mobile device command includes at least one image from a stream of audio/visual programming content presented by the set top box and a text-based phrase selected from a plurality of text-based phrases pre-stored in the mobile device, the text-based phrase associated with the audio/visual programming content, the stream having been modified by at least forwarding or reversing the presentation of the stream or wherein the received mobile device command includes a clip of audio/visual programming from the stream of audio/visual programming content presented by the set top box and a text-based message written by a first user;
• a wireless transceiver;
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• a memory, the memory arranged to store program logic software, the program logic software executable by the processing system and operable to:
• parse information communicated in the mobile device command;
• form a short message service (SMS) message that includes both text-based message information from the mobile device command and audio/visual programming information from the mobile device command;
• identify a target destination from the parsed information the target destination including account information associated with a second user;
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• communicate the SMS message from mobile device toward a second mobile device associated with the target destination.