Patent ID: 9508252
Filing Date: 2016-11-29
CPC Classification: G08C

Claim Text:
1. A method of handling remote control commands in a system of devices connected by multimedia links, the method comprising: propagating, from a first device to a second device via a multimedia link, an address of the first device in association with an indication that the first device is a master for a remote control command type; storing, at the second device, control master information associating the address of the first device with the remote control command type that the first device is master for; receiving, at the second device, a remote control command from a remote control; identifying, at the second device, a command type of the remote control command; and responsive to the control master information indicating that the command type of the received remote control command is the remote control command type that the first device is the master for, forwarding by the second device the received remote control command using the address of the first device stored in the control master information.