Patent ID: 7831930

Claim:
An electronically readable media having embedded instructions executable by a processing device of a hand held device for displaying information to a user of the hand held device, the instructions performing steps comprising: allowing a plurality of lists of favorite channels to be defined for display in a display of the hand held device; and accepting input into the hand held device that specifies to the hand held device that the hand held device is to placed into a mode to control at least one of a plurality of home appliances and, in response, using the input to select at least one of the plurality of lists of favorite channels whereby the user may interact with the at least one of the plurality of lists when displayed in the display of the hand held device to cause the hand held device to transmit one or more command codes to the at least one of the plurality of home appliances associated with the specified mode for the purpose of tuning the at least one of the plurality of home appliances to a channel represented on the at least one of the plurality of lists of favorite channels.