Patent ID: 8830074

Claim:
A method for using an entertainment device to notify a user of a needed reconfiguration of a controlling device used to command operations of an audio visual entertainment system in which a first device connected to the entertainment device as an audio and/or visual source is intended to be controlled by the controlling device when in a home theater operating mode of the controlling device and a second device connected to the entertainment device as an audio and/or visual output destination for the entertainment device is intended to be controlled by the controlling device in the home theater operating mode of the controlling device, the method comprising: receiving at the entertainment device a transmission from the controlling device having data which is indicative of the controlling device having been placed into the home theater operating mode of the controlling device; causing the entertainment device to determine if there is a change in at least one of the first device and the second device being connected to the entertainment device; and in response to the entertainment device determining that there is a change in one of the first device and the second device being connected to the entertainment device, causing the entertainment device to display via a device connected to the entertainment device as a visual output destination for the entertainment device a message that serves to notify a user that the controlling device is in need of reconfiguration to thereby change the first device that is intended to be controlled in the home theater operating mode of the controlling device and/or the second device that is intended to be controlled in the home theater operating mode of the controlling device.