Patent ID: 8165867

Claim:
A method of using a first electronic device to operate a second electronic device in real time, while the second device is not physically connected to the first device, and is only intermittently local to the first device, comprising: using a first device to (a) obtain visual or auditory information from external to the first device where the information comprises a human-understandable device command directed toward an operation of the second device, (b) manipulate the obtained information, and (c) transmit the manipulated information to a distal computer system; the distal computer system operating as a remote human-to-device command translation service provider using at least a portion of the manipulated information to translate the human-understandable device command into a formatted device command executable by the second device; transmitting the formatted device command to the second device; and the second device executing the formatted device command having received the formatted device command from the distal computer system, while the second device is local to the first device.