Patent ID: 8885802
Filing Date: 2014-11-11
Classification: G06F,G08C,H04M,H04N,H04W

Abstract:
1. A remote control device with slaved audio input, the device including: a wireless link transceiver; at least one slaved audio input built into the remote control; a navigation control built into the remote control; hardware resources coupled between the wireless link transceiver, the slaved audio input and the navigation control; a stack running on the hardware resources and exchanging packets with a master device; and an encoder logic running on the hardware resources, logically coupled to the stack, adapted to encode signals from the slaved audio input into a remote control audio format, and adapted to send audio packets in the remote control audio format to the master device; wherein the remote control depends on the master device to transcode input from the slaved audio input to VoIP from the remote control device format and relies on the master device to respond to control signals sent by the remote control device in the packets.