Systems and methods for providing interactive media guidance on a wireless communications device

摘要

A wireless communications device provides users with opportunities to access interactive media guidance or other applications and to control interactive media guidance applications running on user equipment. The wireless communications device may have a touch-sensitive screen with controls that are coordinated with the features of the interactive media guidance or other applications. The wireless communications device may function as a remote controller for user equipment.

主权项

1. A method for controlling user equipment using a wireless communications device, comprising:
receiving user input on the wireless communications device to create at least one media guidance application command for causing a user equipment device to modify playback of a media content currently being generated for display at the user equipment device, wherein the wireless communications device includes storage; transmitting, separately from a transmission of the at least one media guidance application command, a signal from the wireless communications device to the user equipment device; determining whether a response to the signal is received by the wireless communications device from the user equipment device; determining, at the wireless communication device, whether the user equipment device is able to receive the at least one media guidance application command based on whether the response to the signal is received by the wireless communications device; in response to determining that the user equipment device is not able to receive the at least one media guidance application command:
saving the at least one media guidance application command on the storage of the wireless communications device;transmitting the at least one media guidance application command from the storage of the wireless communications device to the user equipment device after the user equipment device becomes accessible; andgenerating for display an indication, on the wireless communications device, that the at least one media guidance application command has been successfully received by the user equipment device.