Patent ID: 7006006

Claim:
A system for controlling home entertainment units with radio frequency (RF) and infrared (IR) signals, said system comprising: a computer with a processor, memory, a display, and a disk drive; an RF transceiving device with a memory, said RF transceiving device being communicatively interconnected with the computer by a cable; wherein said memory of said RF transceiving device contains stored therein computer readable software code means, said computer readable software code means comprising: first instruction means for receiving first processed accessed command code data associated with a first input device from the computer; second instruction means for receiving verbal input data regarding the particular home entertainment unit from a second input device via vocal recognition circuitry, and processing the received verbal input data into second processed access command code data for the particular home entertainment unit; third instruction means for converting the first or second processed accessed command code data into RF signal data associated with the particular home entertainment unit; and fourth instruction means for transmitting the RF signal data from the RF transceiving device; an RF transceiver and IR transmitter combination device with a memory, said combination device being wirelessly communicatively linked with the RF transceiving device; and at least one home entertainment unit, wherein said RF transceiver and IR transmitter combination device receives transmitted RF signal data from said RF transceiving device for a particular home entertainment unit, converts the RF signal data into IR signal data associated with the particular home entertainment unit, transmits the IR signal data to the particular home entertainment unit, and controls the particular home entertainment unit.