Patent ID: 7054921

Claim:
A system for accessing, over a wide area network, multimedia equipment for reproducing multimedia information recorded on data storage media, comprising: generating means for generating a list of contents of multimedia information recorded on data storage media of a first user at a first equipment location by processing contents data of each medium in the data storage media at the first equipment location, said generating means operating to transfer said list of contents via said wide area network to an expert at a second equipment location, said expert being knowledgeable about said multimedia information so that said expert can provide recommendations about said multimedia information, said expert modifying the generated list of contents by selecting items from said list of contents and rearranging the selected items to produce a rearranged list of contents; converting means for converting the rearranged list of contents to at least one command script file for controlling the multimedia equipment at the first equipment location, said at least one command script file including a series of commands for controlling the multimedia equipment in compliance with a smart control protocol used in multimedia components; and controlling means for controlling the multimedia equipment at the first equipment location based on said at least one command script file, wherein the multimedia information recorded on the first user's storage media is reproduced on the multimedia equipment, located at the first equipment location, based on the rearranged list of contents.