Patent ID: 7542753

Claim:
A remote control device with slaved audio reproduction, the device including: a radio; a plurality of slaved inputs and outputs built into the remote control, including at least a slaved microphone and a slaved audio output; a keyboard and navigation control built into the remote control; hardware resources coupled between the radio and the slaved inputs, the slaved outputs, the keyboard and the navigation control; a stack running on the hardware resources and exchanging packets with a master device; a decoder logic running on the hardware resources, logically coupled to the stack, adapted to receive the packets processed by the master device into a remote control device format and to decode the remote control device format into signals to drive the slaved outputs; wherein the remote control depends on the master device to process at least one audio stream from one or more source formats into the remote control device format, depends on the master device to transcode input from and output to the slaved microphone and audio output between VoIP and the remote control device format, and relies on the master device to respond to the control signals to change the audio stream delivered in the packets.