Patent ID: 9024894
Filing Date: 2015-05-05
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: establishing a communication session between a remote controller device in a subscriber domain and a remote server over a network; receiving control information from the remote controller device operated in the subscriber domain, the control information indicating a gesture sensed by a touch-sensing surface of the remote controller device; forwarding the control information over the communication session to the remote server to control a content management device in the subscriber domain; wherein the gesture is a swipe gesture, the method further comprising: utilizing a velocity of the swipe gesture to determine a command as indicated by the swipe gesture, the swipe gesture specifying a first command based when the velocity of the swipe command is above a threshold value, the swipe gesture specifying a second command when the velocity of the gesture is below the threshold value; responsive to detecting that the velocity of a first swipe gesture is above the threshold value: i) executing the first command, execution of the first command including initiating display of a graphical user interface on the remote controller device, the graphical user interface displaying multiple available channels, and ii) based on a tap input to a particular channel on the graphical user interface displayed on the touch-sensing surface, tuning to the particular channel selected from the graphical user interface; and responsive to detecting that the velocity of a second swipe gesture is below the threshold value, executing the second command, execution of the second command including tuning to a different channel than the current selected channel.