Patent ID: 7609824

Claim:
A master device, adapted to be controlled by a remote control device that needs only limited computing capabilities and that includes slaved control and audio I/O features, the master device including: a limited range radio; hardware resources coupled to the radio; a light weight protocol stack running on the hardware resources and exchanging packets with a remote control device; an IP protocol stack running on the hardware resources and exchanging packets with at least one signal source; control interpretation logic running on the hardware resources, logically coupled to the light weight protocol stack, that processes input received from a slaved keyboard and from a slaved navigation device on the remote control and responsively controls the master device, including selection of audio and/or video for playback; call processing logic running on the hardware resources, logically coupled to the IP protocol stack and the light weight protocol stack, that receives voice over IP (VOIP) audio signal packets from the signal source, transcodes them to a remote control device format suitable to drive at least one slaved output on the remote control device, and forwards them to the remote control device; receives control signals from the remote control device and responsively initiates or answers a telephone call; and receives audio signal packets from a slaved microphone on the remote control device, transcodes the audio signal packets into transcoded audio packets and forwards the transcoded audio packets to the signal source; and display logic running on the hardware resources, logically coupled to the light weight protocol stack, that composes a first visual display and forwards the first visual display to the remote control device.