Patent ID: 8793345
Filing Date: 2014-07-29
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A control terminal configured to be connectable to a content sender and a content receiver via a network, the content sender being configured to send a specified content, the content receiver being configured to receive the content sent by the content sender, the control terminal being provided separately from the content sender and the content receiver, the control terminal comprising: a processor; a storage device communicatively coupled to the processor, the storage device comprises a content information obtaining module that, when executed by the processor, configured to obtain a portion of or an entire pieces of content information presented by one or more content sender connected to the network; a content selector that, when executed by the processor, configured to select, from the portion of or the entire pieces of content information, a content to be played; a device identifier comparing module that, when executed by the processor, configured to compare a device identifier of the content sender which is to send the selected content and a device identifier of the content receiver which is to receive the selected content, with each other; an identifier converter that, when executed by the processor, configured to (1) convert, if the device identifier of the content sender is identical to the device identifier of the content receiver, content information of the selected content into a content identifier for remote controlling in a remote control server, based on a conversion rule set in advance, the remote control server being configured to control remote operations with respect to content on the network, and where the content identifier is present in a portion of at least one of the content or the content information, (2) obtain the content information and extract the content identifier from a combination of a portion of or all of the content and the content information presented by the content sender; and a remote-control-server controller, executed by the processor, configured to send, based on the content identifier for remote controlling, a play control message of the selected content to the remote control server comprising a device identifier same as that of the content sender and of the content receiver.