Patent ID: 9582994
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: G05B,G08C

Claim:
1. A method in a system for configuring devices to accept remote control commands, comprising: retrieving, by the system for configuring devices to accept remote control commands, remote control command information useful for determining how to process a set of remote control commands associated with a first device and a remote control of the first device; and communicating over a communications network, by the system for configuring devices to accept remote control commands, to a second device that is associated with another remote control that is different than the remote control of the first device, at least some of the retrieved remote control command information, for the second device to accept and execute one or more remote control commands received by the second device from the remote control of the first device, enabling the second device to cross reference the one or more remote control commands received by the second device from the remote control of the first device with one or more corresponding commands that the second device may execute.