Patent ID: 8358665

Claim:
A method of controlling the presentation of multimedia data that is being delivered to one or more devices on a local area network, comprising the steps of: receiving a multiplex signal at a control device, the multiplex signal comprising a plurality of logical channels representing one or more types of multimedia data that originates from a plurality of registered sources and a plurality of registered controllable devices on a network, wherein the multimedia data comprises at least one of audio data, video data, and graphics data; determining at the control device the plurality of logical channels contained within the multiplex signal; detecting at the control device the presence of the plurality of registered controllable devices on the local area network; receiving the multiplex signal at each of the registered controllable devices; and transmitting instructions from the control device to one of the registered controllable devices to remotely control the registered controllable device and to instruct the registered controllable device to output a particular type of multimedia data associated with one or more of the logical channels of the multiplex signal.