Patent ID: 9405710
Filing Date: 2016-08-02
CPC Classification: G06F,G08C,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method for controlling user equipment using a wireless communications device, comprising: receiving user input on the wireless communications device to create at least one media guidance application command for causing a user equipment device to modify playback of a media content currently being generated for display at the user equipment device, wherein the wireless communications device includes storage; transmitting, separately from a transmission of the at least one media guidance application command, a signal from the wireless communications device to the user equipment device; determining whether a response to the signal is received by the wireless communications device from the user equipment device; determining, at the wireless communication device, whether the user equipment device is able to receive the at least one media guidance application command based on whether the response to the signal is received by the wireless communications device; in response to determining that the user equipment device is not able to receive the at least one media guidance application command: