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1. A remote control, comprising:
a processor; a user input device coupled to the processor via an input adapter; a remote control display coupled to the processor via a display adapter; a speaker coupled to the processor via a sound adapter; a communication adapter, coupled to the processor, to establish a bi-directional connection with a multimedia handling device comprising a cellular connection between the remote control and a cellular base station; and a storage medium including:
storage data, comprising:
a user identifier uniquely identifying a particular user;user preference data indicative of preferences of the particular user for:language, closed captioning, and a format; anda user profile indicative of channel preferences and viewing permissions of the particular user; andinstructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
synchronizing the user profile and the user preference data with a corresponding user profile and corresponding user preference data on the multimedia handling device;receiving input from the particular user via the user input device, the input comprising commands to control the multimedia handling device;sending a display mode instruction to the multimedia handling device, the display mode instruction being indicative of a display mode selected from the group consisting of: remote display mode, television display mode, and remote and television display mode, wherein output from the multimedia handling device is sent:
only to the remote control display in the remote display mode;only to a television display in a television display mode; andto the remote control display and the television display in the remote and television display mode;sending a user-selectable content mode instruction to the multimedia handling device, the user-selectable content mode being selected from the group consisting of a display all content mode and a display commercial-free content only mode;providing an interactive display in accordance with the display mode and the content mode; anddisplaying, by the remote control, notification messages from the multimedia handling device, wherein the notification messages include a change in content status of a multimedia program based on the multimedia handling device receiving the content mode instruction. |
