Patent ID: 7697669
Filing Date: 2010-04-13
Classification: G06F,G08C,H04M,H04N,H04W

Abstract:
1. A remote control device with slaved audio reproduction, the device including: a wireless link transceiver; a digital rights management port, adapted to couple electrically with a device that stores a DRM key; at least one slaved input and output built into the remote control, including at least a slaved microphone and a slaved audio output; a navigation control built into the remote control; hardware resources coupled between the wireless link transceiver, the digital rights management port, the slaved input and output and the navigation control; a stack running on the hardware resources and exchanging packets with a master device; a DRM logic running on the hardware resources, logically coupled to the stack, adapted to exchange with the master device messages related to the DRM key coupled to the digital rights management port; and a decoder logic running on the hardware resources, logically coupled to the stack, adapted to receive the packets processed by the master device into a remote control device format and to decode the remote control device format into signals to drive the slaved output; wherein the remote control