Patent ID: 8730406

Claim:
A method of operating a receiving system, the method comprising: outputting a first graphical representation of a first remote control of the receiving system to a display device with a display, wherein the first graphical representation of the first remote control is presented on the display, wherein the first graphical representation of the first remote control includes a plurality of graphically represented buttons corresponding to a plurality of buttons of the first remote control, and wherein the graphical representation of the first remote control includes a representation of a graphical cursor that indicates a first selectable one of the plurality of graphical buttons of the graphical representation of the first remote control; receiving a control signal from a second remote control, wherein the control signal corresponds to one of an up direction, a down direction, a left direction and a right direction, and wherein the control signal is generated by at least one direction controller on the second remote control that is configured to cause a graphical cursor to move in one of the up direction, the down direction, the left direction and the right direction; and outputting a second graphical representation of the first remote control, wherein the second graphical representation of the first remote control is presented on the display in response to receiving the control signal from the second remote control, wherein the graphical cursor presented on the first graphical representation is moved to an adjacent one of the graphical buttons in accordance with the corresponding direction of the received control signal, and wherein the moved graphical cursor indicates that the adjacent graphical button is a second selectable one of the plurality of the graphical buttons presented on the second graphical representation.