Patent ID: 7102691

Claim:
A system for providing audio and video information from a second location to a first location and for controlling said audio and video information from the first location, comprising a computer, in the second location, including a data input port, responsive to operational commands to controllably provide video information; a television monitor, in the first location, coupled to the computer for selectively displaying the provided video information; a local keyboard, in the second location, for providing first ones of the operational commands; a remote control transmitter in the first location for communicating command and control signals; a remote control receiver, in the first location, for receiving and decoding the command and control signals from the remote control transmitter and providing second ones of the operational commands; and an input select switch, in the second location, having first and second input ports and a data output port, the first input port being coupled to the remote control receiver, the second input port being coupled to the local keyboard and the data output port being coupled to the data input port of the computer to provide either the first ones of the operational commands or the second ones of the operational commands to the data input port of the computer.