Patent ID: 8884903

Claim:
A remote control device for use with marine electronics devices, the remote control device comprising: a touch-sensitive display configured to display graphical images, and to receive touch input from a user; a communication subsystem configured to provide bidirectional communication with one or more controllable marine electronics devices via a computer network; processing hardware and persistent memory including instructions executable by the processing hardware to cause the processing hardware to: receive device information from each of the one or more controllable marine electronics devices via the computer network; for each controllable marine electronics device for which device information is received, receive respective control information from a corresponding location determined based on the device information received for the respective controllable marine electronics device; display a selection graphical user interface (GUI) on the touch-sensitive display, the selection GUI including a plurality of graphical selectors, each graphical selector being associated with a respective one of the controllable marine electronics devices; upon receiving touch input associated with a selected graphical selector, display a remote control user interface for a target controllable marine electronics device corresponding to the selected graphical selector on the touch sensitive display; receive a message from the target controllable marine electronics device; and update a visual appearance of the remote control user interface based on the message from the target controllable marine electronics device.