Patent ID: 7787749

Claim:
A telecommunications method, comprising: receiving voice inputs for digital personal media stream manager (DPVSM) control at a voice portal; converting said voice inputs to one or more control commands; forwarding commands to a DPVSM controller in a personal computer; using said one or more control commands to control programming of a broadband video recording device operably coupled to said personal computer via a DPVSM, the DPVSM receiving said commands corresponding to said one or more control commands and using said commands to program said broadband video recording device, the DPVSM intercoupling a broadband media interface and said broadband video recording device and a home local area network subsystem and a home multimedia subsystem, wherein said voice portal is in said computer and said computer converts said voice inputs and said using comprises said DPVSM controller transmitting one or more control commands over a local area network from said personal computer to said DPVSM.