Appeal 2006-3350
Application 10/287,411
select a program to be viewed or recorded from that guide, which will be
remembered by the handheld unit until it can establish communications with
the appliance and schedule the recording of the program.
In the words of the Appellants:
In accordance with the description that follows, a system and method
is provided for controlling the recording functionality of an appliance using
an electronic program guide displayed on an electronic portable device. As
will be appreciated, providing this functionality to a portable device
overcomes the disadvantages seen in the prior art resulting from the fact that
a consumer user is not necessarily in front of their recording appliance when
browsing the program guide information. Rather, the consumer may be in
another room, another building (e.g. at work), or even in another city.
To overcome this problem, the system and method described
hereinafter will accept the consumer's recording requests, store them, and
automatically convey them to a target recording apparatus at a later time
when the portable device is able to communicate with the recording
appliance.
Claim 1 is representative of the claims on appeal, and is reproduced
below:
1. A method performed in a portable device to enable a user to effect
recording of a program, the method comprising:
displaying to a user in a display of the portable device a program
guide including a listing for the program;
in response to receiving input from the user requesting that the
program be recorded, storing in a memory of the portable device data
indicative of the recording request; and
2
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