Patent ID: 7924168
Filing Date: 2011-04-12
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A remote control system in which, when apparatuses controllable via a network exist inside and outside a user's visual range, a user remotely controls at least one of the apparatuses via the network using a predetermined control point, the remote control system comprising: means for causing the control point to transmit a command for specifying an apparatus to be controlled via the network to an apparatus to be specified in accordance with a user's apparatus specifying operation; and means for causing the apparatus that has received the command for specifying an apparatus to be controlled to transmit a response via the network to the control point as well as to perform an operation using a device attached to the body of the apparatus in response to the command, the control point displaying a list of name information of all apparatuses controllable via the network, and then transmitting the command for specifying an apparatus to be controlled to an apparatus to be specified via the network in accordance with the apparatus specifying operation performed by the user using the displayed list, the command including a request for displaying name information of the apparatus to be specified, and the apparatus that has received the command for specifying an apparatus to be controlled performing a displaying operation of the name information thereof as the operation in response to the command.