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Multiple user control of a down loadable application

A technology of application control and network download, applied to color TV parts, TV system parts, TVs, etc., can solve the problems of not disclosing the input of multiple remote controls, not disclosing, etc.

Inactive Publication Date: 2008-03-05
KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS NV
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[0004] However, none of these references disclose input to multiple remote controls that are controlling a downloaded application of a multimedia terminal
Furthermore, none of these references discloses an API extension for determining the source of a remote control input signal, such as commands from multiple remote controls, to support the control of a multimedia terminal by a downloaded application

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[0014] The following discussion, and the aforementioned drawings, describe embodiments of Applicants' invention as the inventors presently understand it to the best of their knowledge, however it should be recognized that many modifications of the invention are possible and that the invention may take other forms. embodied and implemented in other ways without departing from the spirit of the invention. Furthermore, features of described embodiments may be omitted, combined selectively or entirely with other embodiments, or used to replace features of other embodiments or parts thereof, without departing from the spirit of the present invention. The figures and detailed description are therefore to be considered as illustrative explanations of aspects of the invention and should not be construed as limiting the scope of the invention.

[0015] As shown in Fig. 1, the multimedia terminal controller 1-1 includes several modules, which will be described below. The modules of the...

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Control of an operation of a multimedia terminal by an application, for example, a game or interactive television module, using remote control input signal is provided. An application is downloaded (Sl), input signals from remote control units (RC-1, RC-2, RC-N) are received (S3) at the multimedia terminal, a message, including a source indication indicating the remote control from which the input signal was received, is sent (S5) to the downloaded application. According to the downloaded application, the operation of the multimedia terminal is controlled (S6) based on the source indication. The message may be sent to the downloaded application by an application program interface- based module resident at the multimedia terminal. A disable signal to disable a key could be transmitted to one or more of the remote control devices, for example, to disable the key for a specified time or a specified turn of a user.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to the fields of multimedia terminal control, multi-user control of terminals, and control of multimedia terminals by downloaded applications. Background technique [0002] A multimedia terminal, such as MHP (Multimedia Home Platform) or OCAP, set-top box of a TV, TV, DVD (Digital Video Disc) player, or PVR (Personal Video Recorder), etc., allows users to download applications to experience on the multimedia terminal Multimedia display or application. For example, an application, such as a game, an interactive commercial, or an interactive television application, can be downloaded from a network such as the Internet, or the downloaded application can be filtered out of the broadcast signal (this is usually the case in MHP / OCAP environments case), or loaded from a DVD, Blu-ray (Blu-ray) disc or HD-DVD media player for playback on a multimedia terminal. Such a multimedia terminal may contain an API (Application Programming Interfa...

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IPC IPC(8): H04N5/445H04N21/443
CPCH04N2005/4442H04N5/4403H04N21/42204H04N21/435H04N21/4431H04N21/4433H04N21/8166H04N21/42206H04N21/4532H04N21/4751H04N21/47
Inventor A·P·P·夫里森
Owner KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS NV