MEDIA RETURN SYSTEM

摘要

A system includes a consumer electronic device adapted to render a media content and a hand-held, portable device having a touch screen display, a transmitter, a receiver, and a processing unit. The processing unit of the hand-held, portable device uses data related to the media content received via the receiver to cause command icons related to rendering of the media content to be defined and displayed in the touch screen display and to cause the transmitter to transmit one or more commands for controlling a functional operation related to rendering of the media content by the consumer electronic device in response to a user interaction with one or more of the command icons caused to displayed in the touch screen display.

主权项

1. A system, comprising;
a consumer electronic device adapted to render a media content; and a hand-held, portable device having a touch screen display, a transmitter, a receiver, a memory device, and a processing unit coupled to each of the touch screen display, the transmitter, the receiver, and the memory device; wherein the processing unit of the hand-held, portable device uses data representative of a plurality of media content that is renderable by the consumer electronic device as received via the receiver to cause a corresponding plurality of command buttons to be displayed in the touch screen display and to automatically assigned to each of the plurality of command buttons a sequence of commands selected from a library of commands pre-stored in the memory device whereupon the processing unit of the hand-held, portable device will cause the transmitter to transmit a one of the plurality of sequence of commands to the consumer electronic device that was automatically assigned to a one of the plurality of command buttons caused to displayed in the touch screen display in response to the one of the plurality of command buttons being interacted with by a user to thereby cause the consumer electronic device to access and commence a rendering of a corresponding one of the plurality of media content.