Patent ID: 7907709

Claim:
A master device, adapted to be controlled by a remote control device that needs only limited computing capabilities and that includes slaved control and audio reproduction features, the master device including: a wireless link transceiver; hardware resources coupled to the wireless link transceiver; a first stack running on the hardware resources and exchanging packets with a remote control device; a second stack running on the hardware resources and exchanging packets with at least one signal source; control interpretation logic running on the hardware resources, logically coupled to the first stack, that processes control input packets received from a slaved navigation device on the remote control device and responsively controls the master device; and call processing logic running on the hardware resources, logically coupled to the second stack and the first stack, that receives voice over IP (VOIP) audio signal packets from the signal source, transcodes the VOIP to a remote control device format suitable to drive at least one slaved output on the remote control device, and forwards the transcoded audio signal packets to the remote control device; and receives the control input packets from the remote control device and responsively initiates or answers a telephone call.