Patent ID: 8418199

Claim:
A reception device for controlling a recording module, comprising: receiving means for receiving a particular format file transmitted through a network; said particular format file including text based control commands that control said recording module and said particular format file further including images and voices; extracting means for extracting at least one of said text based control commands from the received particular format file; and displaying means for displaying the text based control commands in web pages by using a web browser application; and control means for controlling said recording module based on the extracted text based control commands, and interfacing means for determining code information assigned to an individual program and corresponding to the text based control commands, generating an infrared signal equivalent to the code information, and transmitting the infrared signal to the recording module; wherein the control means converts the text based control commands to codes based on pre-registered product information of the recording module so that recording modules with different code systems are controlled after the recording modules are registered, wherein the codes are downloaded from a server via internet after the recording module is registered, wherein the particular format file includes a text portion corresponding to the text based control commands, wherein the text portion has a different format distinguishing the text portion from other portion of the particular format file and includes icons indicating commands for determining functions of the recording module, and wherein said control means uses a timer reservation function to reserve an operation time of said recording module.