Patent ID: 9258613
Filing Date: 2016-02-09
CPC Classification: H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method for manipulating video content comprising: accessing, from a server, a list of one or more IPTV devices; selecting an IPTV device from the list; receiving, from the server, a content list of content that is available to be played on the selected IPTV device; and inputting a control function from a secondary device that is used to control operation of the selected IPTV device, wherein execution of the control function input by the secondary device, to control operation of the selected IPTV device, is queued by the server for later execution when the IPTV device is on but not reachable by the secondary device and the IPTV device is unavailable to execute the control function and the secondary device informs a user that the IPTV client device is not available to play the content at this time.