METHOD OF ENABLING THE CONFIGURATION OF A REMOTE CONTROL USER INTERFACE

摘要

In a method of enabling the configuration of a user interface of a remote control system (1) for controlling a plurality of CE devices (2-5), configuration data is generated to enable the remote control system (1) to present simultaneously a plurality of user interface elements (10,20-25) for activation by a user to execute at least one command on a CE device (2-5). A data processing system (1) receives information defining links between associated ones of a plurality of the CE devices (2-5). The data processing system (1) accesses a database including data defining user interface elements and associated remote control commands for each of the CE devices separately. The information defining links is used to generate automatically configuration data instructing the remote control system to present simultaneously a combination of user interface elements for activation by a user, defined for different ones of a group of linked CE devices.