Patent ID: 8502925

Claim:
A television system comprising: a display panel; a processing element interfaced to the display panel; a remote control interface, the remote control interface being a wireless interfaced to the television over a bi-direction interface; a table containing a plurality of entries, each entry representing a device type, a manufacturer and a remote control code set; said remote control interface receiving a command that controls selecting an entry in the table by providing options of different peripherals to be controlled from the table, by providing manufacturer names and model names for different peripherals to be controlled based on data stored in the table, where one of the model names for a first manufacturer includes an option for other model names other than the model names that are stored, and where selecting the other model names automatically causes update of data in the table to include new model information for the first manufacturer, and where the new model information is thereafter used as options for model names for the first manufacturer; and said remote control interface also transmitting the remote control code set from the one of the entries from the television to the remote control over the bi-direction interface.