Appeal No. 1996-3600
Application 08/284,371
This is a decision on the appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134
from the examiner’s rejection of claims 106-127, 133-162 and
168-175. Claims 1-105 have been cancelled. Claims 128-132
and 163-167 have been indicated as containing allowable
subject matter and are merely objected to as depending from
rejected claims.
The disclosed invention pertains to a method and
apparatus for programming and automatically recording video
signals such as in a video tape recorder. An input receives
signals representative of channel, date, time of day and
program length in a compressed form. A decoder decodes and
expands this data into the signals necessary to control a
video recorder.
Representative claim 106 is reproduced as follows:
106. A system for programming and automatically
recording programs transmitted using video signals, by a video
recorder, under control of sets of channel, date, time-of-day
and program length commands, the system comprising:
an input for receiving compressed coded indications into
said system, each compressed coded indication incorporating
the data represented in a set of individual channel, date,
time-of-day and program length commands, wherein each of one
or more of said compressed coded indications has a length that
is less than the length of the concatenation of said
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