REMOTE CONTROL FOR DEVICES WITH CONNECTIVITY TO A SERVER DELIVERY PLATFORM

• US 20080301729A1
• Filed: 05/20/2008
• Published: 12/04/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Defloor, Michel, Broos, Rudi Constantinus Josephina
• Application Number:
  US12/124,088
• Publication Number:
  US 20080301729A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/38
• CPC Class Codes: H03J 1/0025 in a remote control unit remote control tuning in general H03J9/00

Abstract

The present invention relates to a remote control (107; 201; 301) for controlling at least one device (101, 102, 103; 302) with connectivity to a service delivery network (105, 106). The remote control (107; 201; 301) comprising one or more displays (202) for showing display items which are indicative for one or more control instructions and the remote control (107; 201; 301) is able to adapt the display items and/or the control instructions in real-time depending on a selected service (303).

Claims

1. A remote control (107;

201;

301) for controlling at least one device (101, 102, 103;

302) with connectivity to a service delivery network (105, 106), said remote control (107;

201;

301) comprising one or more displays (202) for showing display items indicative for one or more control instructions,

characterized in that said remote control (107;

201;

301) further comprises means (203, 204) for real-time adapting said display items and/or said control instructions depending on a selected service (303).

2. The remote control (107;

201;

301) according to claim 1, characterized in that said remote control (107;

201;

301) further comprises means (203, 204) for real-time adapting said display items and/or said control instructions depending on a device (101, 102, 103;

302) used in delivery of said selected service (303).

3. The remote control (107;

201;

301) according to claim 1, characterized in that said remote control (107;

201;

301) further comprises means (207) for receiving metadata indicative for said selected service (303).

4. The remote control (107;

201;

301) according to claim 3, characterized in that said metadata comprises information related to the appearance of one or more of said display items and/or information descriptive for one or more of said control instructions.

5. The remote control (107;

201;

301) according to claim 3, characterized in that said means (207) for receiving metadata are adapted to operate on a wireless communication technology.

6. The remote control (107;

201;

301) according to claim 5, characterized in that said wireless communication technology is one or more out of;

WiFi technology;

Bluetooth technology;

Infrared technology; and

Radio Frequency technology.

7. A device for use in a service delivery network in cooperation with a remote control (107;

201;

301) according to claim 1,

characterized in that said device comprises means for generating metadata indicative for a service (303) provided by said service delivery network (105, 106) and said device comprises means for transmitting said metadata to said remote control (107;

201;

301).