SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING A MARK-UP LANGUAGE PAGE TO COMMAND AN APPLIANCE
A hand-held device having a display and a browser application which supports functionality particularly suited for the hand-held device. For example, the browser application supports a full screen tag which allows information to be displayed as a full screen within the display. The browser application may also support a tag for use in displaying a link the activation of which will cause the hand-held device to transmit command codes to a consumer appliance. Still further, the browser application can support a tag which the hand-held device can use to issue reminders.
1 . A computer-readable media having computer executable instructions for displaying information in a display, the instructions performing steps comprising:
retrieving a mark-up language formatted page having an embedded mark-up language formatted page tag comprised of a data field containing information indicative of a command code to be transmitted upon activation of a hyperlink displayed on the display;
displaying the mark-up language formatted page including the hyperlink in the display; and
in response to the hyperlink being activated, using the information in the data field to transmit the command code to a consumer appliance;
wherein the transmitted command code is a command to tune the consumer appliance to a television channel.
2 . The computer-readable media as recited in claim 1 , wherein the information comprises data for use in generating the command code.
3 . The computer-readable media as recited in claim 1 , wherein the information comprises a pointer to data for generating the command code.
4 . The computer-readable media as recited in claim 1 , wherein the mark-up language page depicts a representation of a user interface of a remote control.
5 . The computer-readable media as recited in claim 1 , wherein the mark-up language formatted page is representative of a media guide.
6 . The computer-readable media as recited in claim 1 , where the information is used to transmit an infrared command code to the consumer appliance.
7 . The computer-readable media as recited in claim 6 , wherein the first information comprises data for use in generating the infrared code.
8 . The computer-readable media as recited in claim 6 , wherein the information comprises a pointer to data for generating the infrared code.
9 . The computer-readable media as recited in claim 6 , wherein the mark-up language page depicts a representation of a user interface of a remote control.
10 . The computer-readable media as recited in claim 6 , wherein the mark-up language formatted page is representative of a media guide.