Patent ID: 8885552

Claim:
A remote control method, comprising: determining an identity of a user associated with a local network device; establishing, by the local network device, a local wireless connection with a customer premises equipment gateway to an access network for delivering multimedia content; responsive to determining whether the identity is authorized to send a remote control message to a terminal device, establishing a pairing between the local network device and a paired terminal device, wherein the paired terminal device is one of a plurality of terminal devices connected to the gateway and configured to present multimedia content to a display device; emulating, by the local network device, a remote control device for the paired terminal device; sending, by the local network device, a remote control message to the gateway, wherein the remote control message includes an indication of: the paired terminal device; and a remote control function executable by the paired terminal device; and sending the remote control message to the paired terminal device for execution by the paired terminal device.