Appeal No. 95-3891
Application 08/066,405
reading out said specific device
formatting data for a selected device in
a specific one of said different
categories of devices as determined by
the activated one key of said
predetermined group of keys; and
transmitter means operative under
control of said specific device
formatting data to transmit said device
control signals towards said selected
one of said plurality of devices in said
specific one of said different
categories of devices as determined by
the activation of one key of said
predetermined group of keys.
Reading the claim onto appellants' disclosed
embodiment, the recited "memory means" corresponds to EPROM 16,
which stores formatting data for a plurality of devices in each
of a plurality of different device categories. The "keyboard
means" corresponds to keyboard 36, the "plurality of keys" to all
of the keys, the "predetermined group of keys" to the "CBL,"
"VCR," and "TV" keys 36a, 36b, and 36c, and the "entry initiate
signal" to the "YES" signal generated by depressing the "RECORD"
key (Fig. 3). The "means for addressing said memory means" and
"thereby reading out specific device formatting data" includes
microprocessor 10 and the various buses and lines which transfer
the selected formatting data from EPROM 16 to RAM 44. The
"transmitter means" includes microprocessor 10 and infrared (IR)
driver 29. As appellants acknowledge in the brief (at 6), the
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