Patent ID: 8396948

Claim:
A method for remotely providing operational settings from a host device to a client device, the host device having a display, the method comprising: determining, at the host device, operational settings supported by the client device; enabling, at the host device, display screens that correspond only to operational settings supported by the client device, wherein the display screens present user interfaces presenting a list of selectable operational settings for the client device, wherein the client device lacks an interface for altering the operational settings, wherein the list of selectable operational settings comprise only those operational settings determined to be supported by the client media device; receiving a user selection of at least one operational setting for the client device; establishing a communication link between the host device and the client device by the host device; sending the operational settings from the host device to the client device over the communication channel, the operational settings causing the client device to persistently run using the user-selected operational setting, until the host device is subsequently utilized to alter the user-selected operational setting; and terminating the communication link by the host device once the host device has determined that the client device is persistently running using the user selected operational setting sent over the communication channel such that the client device operates in accordance with the user selectable operational setting independent of the host device.