Patent ID: 9252848
Filing Date: 2016-02-02
CPC Classification: G08C,H04B,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method for pairing radio frequency (RF) remote controls with controlled media devices, the method comprising: detecting presence of a radio frequency identifier (RFID) tag of an RF remote control in a first interrogation zone established by a first RFID tag reader of a first controlled media device that is configured to receive a media content stream with a media content event of interest; automatically initiating a first pairing process between the first controlled media device and the RF remote control in response to detecting presence of the RFID tag in the first interrogation zone, wherein upon completion of the first pairing process, the first controlled media device becomes paired with the RF remote control and becomes configured to operate in accordance with a subsequently received RF signal emitted by the RF remote control when the subsequently received RF signal is one of a first plurality of RF signals; detecting presence of the RFID tag in a second interrogation zone established by a second RFID tag reader of a second controlled media device that is operating at the same time as the first controlled media device, wherein the second controlled media device is configured to receive the media content event of interest from the first controlled media device and is configured to present video information of the media content event of interest to a user on a display of the second controlled media device; and automatically initiating a second pairing process in response to detecting the presence of the RFID tag in the second interrogation zone, wherein upon completion of the second pairing process, the second controlled media device becomes paired with the RF remote control and becomes configured to operate in accordance with the subsequently received RF signal emitted by the RF remote control when the subsequently received RF signal is one of a second plurality of RF signals, wherein the second plurality of RF signals are different from the first plurality of RF signals, wherein during concurrent operation of the first controlled media device and the second controlled media device, while the first controlled media device and the second controlled media device are concurrently paired with the RF remote control, the subsequently received RF signal emitted by the RF remote control is detected by the first controlled media device and the second controlled media device, wherein the first controlled media device operates in response to the subsequently received RF signal when the subsequently received RF signal emitted by the RF remote control is one of the first plurality of RF signals, and wherein the second controlled media device operates in response to the subsequently received RF signal emitted by the RF remote control when the subsequently received RF signal is one of the second plurality of RF signals.