Patent ID: RE44391

Claim:
An apparatus for interacting with a mobile telephone, the apparatus comprising: a TV remote control unit configured to receive a command and to transmit said command, the TV remote control unit including one or more channel-changing keys and one or more volume-changing keys; and a TV system coupled to a mobile telephone, wherein said TV system is configured to receive said command from said TV remote control unit, to recognize said command as a telephone function command, and to transmit said telephone function command to said mobile telephone if said TV system is set to a telephone mode, wherein said telephone function command includes information related to a voice call processing capability or at least one of an electronic mail capability or a text message capability of said mobile telephone, wherein said TV system is further configured to output an output data set transmitted to said TV system from said mobile telephone in response to said transmitted telephone function command, and wherein the TV system displays a first on-screen display (OSD) guide containing an image of keys of the TV remote control unit, said first OSD guide mapping one or more keys of the TV remote control unit to one or more telephone functions when the TV system is set in said telephone mode, the telephone function command being generated based on the mapping in said first OSD of the one or more keys of the TV remote control unit to said one or more telephone functions, and wherein the TV system further displays a second OSD guide mapping one or more keys of the TV remote control unit to one or more television functions when the TV system is set in a television mode, said TV remote control further including one or more keys for allowing a user to switch the TV system between said television mode and said telephone mode.