Patent ID: 8255553
Filing Date: 2012-08-28
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A multimedia client/server system comprising: a multimedia server, coupleable to a multimedia device that produces a multimedia signal, the multimedia server including an encoder module that encodes the multimedia signal to produce an encoded signal, a server transceiver module, coupled to the encoder module, that produces a link signal that includes the encoded signal, that transmits the link signal over a communication link, a command generator module, coupled to the server transceiver module that generates multimedia device commands, and a remote transmitter module, coupled to the command generator module, that wirelessly transmits the multimedia device commands to the multimedia device; and a multimedia client, coupleable to at least one client device, the multimedia client including a client transceiver that receives and demodulates the link signal over the communications link to produce a received encoded signal, a decoder module, coupled to the client transceiver, that decodes the received encoded signal into a decoded output signal, a remote receiver module that receives remote control signals from a remote control device wherein the remote control signals are formatted for reception by the multimedia device, and a remote control signal encoder module, coupled to the remote receiver module and the client transceiver that encodes the remote control signals into encoded control signals for transmission to the multimedia server by the client transceiver by: decoding the remote control signals to determine when a device command is recognized; generating device command data based on the device command and generating the encoded control signals to include the device command data, when the device command is recognized; and sampling and digitizing the remote control signals into digitized samples of the remote control signals to generate the encoded control signals when the device command is not recognized, wherein the encoded control signals include a data packet having the digitized samples of the remote control signals when the device command is not recognized; wherein the server transceiver module receives the encoded control signals and the command generator generates the multimedia device commands based on the encoded control signals.