Patent ID: 7676824

Claim:
A method for the processing signals from a remote control device within a home audiovisual network comprising a plurality of nodes for interconnecting a plurality of terminals, wherein, within the network, at least the following two types of remote-control signals are used: first type remote-control signals specific to the nodes and sent by at least one first remote control device associated with the nodes; and second type remote-control signals specific to the terminals and sent by at least one second remote control device associated with at least one of said terminals; and wherein each node of the network, called a local node, when receiving a first remote-control signal, performs the following steps: analysis of a type of the received first remote-control signal; if the type of the received first remote-control signal is determined to be one of the first type remote-control signals, processing the signal and performing at least one function in response to the received first remote-control signal; if the type of the received first remote-control signal is determined to be one of the second type remote-control signals, transparently sending said received second type remote-control signal to a target node if the target node, to which a target terminal is connected, has been determined beforehand, said received second type remote-control signal being re-transmitted by said target node to said target terminal, said target terminal being connected with said target node, through at least one predetermined link which is a same type of link as a link existing between said at least one second remote control device and said target terminal, the target node emulating at least one function of said at least one second remote control device so that it can retransmit said received second type remote-control signal; and if no target node has been determined beforehand, ignoring said received second type remote-control signal.