Patent ID: 7640577

Claim:
A home entertainment system, comprising: at least one wireless system server having at least one communication system; at least one wireless component having at least one communication system configured for communicating with the communication system of the server; a remote control device configured for communicating with the server and the component and generating a wireless signal, the wireless signal being used to generate an authentication signal, the authentication signal being used for authentication between the component and server; wherein the server sends a signal representing the wireless signal to the component, the component also receiving the wireless signal from the remote control device, the component comparing the wireless signal to the signal from the server representing the wireless signal and if a match is found, determining that authentication exists between the server and component and otherwise not determining that authentication exists between the server and component; and wherein the server includes at least one button and the authentication signal is generated from the wireless signal only if the button is pressed within a predetermined time of receiving the wireless signal from the remote control device.