Patent ID: 9158395
Filing Date: 2015-10-13
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for remotely controlling at least one remote device, by a device, via a Remote Control User Interface (RC-UI), the method comprising: discovering, by the device, a server external to the device that supports the RC-UI; receiving, by the device, from the server, a list of remote devices that the device can control and are currently rendering a User Interface (UI); receiving, by the device, a selection input that selects a remote device from the list of the remote devices; transmitting, to the server, a device selection request corresponding to the selection input; receiving, by the device, an RC-UI page mapped in the server to a UI page transmitted from the server to the selected remote device, according to the device selection request from the server; and controlling, by the device, the selected remote device via the received RC-UI page, wherein the device and the remote devices are Remote User Interface Clients (RUI-Cs) and the server is a Remote User Interface Server (RUI-S), and wherein the RC-UI page is transmitted from the server to the device based on a reference table comprising information on a remote device IDentification (ID) and a UI ID indicating the UI-page.