Apple remote and built-in trackpad stop responding

I have a Macbook Pro - late 2011 - and have upgraded to Mountain Lion the day it was released. I bought a brand new Apple remote and paired it with my MBP. Today, as usual, I used an HDMI cable to connect my MBP to a LED TV and started giving a lecture based on a Keynote presentation I created full of videos snippets and the like that I sometimes pause using the remote. All of a sudden the remote - which had been previously paired with my computer - stopped responding. I immediately switched to the arrow keys on the keyboard and finished the lecture. I also noticed that the built-in trackpad had stopped responding to multiple gestures.
Has anyone been experiencing these problems? And is there a solution? I have searched high and low, but to no avail.
TIA

Found a solution!!!
Reset the System Management Controller.
Now eveything is working as expected!

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