Patent ID: 7356334

Claim:
A remote control method for remote-controlling an operation of an audio reproducing apparatus using a wireless terminal that is equipped with a display device, the method comprising: establishing wireless connection between the wireless terminal and the audio reproducing apparatus; sending an audio data acquisition request from the wireless terminal to the audio reproducing apparatus by a wireless signal; sending, in response to the audio data acquisition request from the wireless terminal, content information, which is indicative of audio data items that are stored in a storage medium provided in the audio reproducing apparatus, from the audio reproducing apparatus to the wireless terminal by a wireless signal; displaying on the display device of the wireless terminal a list of the audio data items that are stored in the storage medium based on the content information from the audio reproducing apparatus; sending a reproduction command, which instructs reproduction of audio data that is selected from the list of the audio data items displayed on the display device, from the wireless terminal to the audio reproducing apparatus by a wireless signal; and disconnecting, if the wireless terminal is not operated for a predetermined time period, wireless connection between the wireless terminal and the audio reproducing apparatus in a state in which an operation of reproducing audio data by the audio reproducing apparatus is continued.