Patent ID: 7904069

Claim:
A mobile phone remote control system comprising: a mobile phone including: a microprocessor; a memory accessible by the microprocessor; a setup module configured to set up, based on a geographic region derived from a telephone number assigned to a user of the mobile phone the mobile phone to operate as a remote control by automatically associating each of a plurality of icons with a respective television channel provided by a television provider within the geographic region; a display screen configured to display an icon of the plurality of icons, the icon corresponding to a channel of a media device and selected from a database of icons stored in the memory; and a screen interface that allows a selection of the icon, wherein the selection of the icon causes the microprocessor to operate programming instructions stored in the memory; and a transmitter controlled by the microprocessor to transmit a wireless signal from the mobile phone in response to the operation of the stored programming instructions, the signal containing information to change the channel of the media device to the channel represented by the selected icon.