Appeal No. 1996-3600
Application 08/284,371
of day and program length commands are sequentially entered
into the remote control unit [see column 9, line 40 to column
11, line 8]. Thus, appellants are correct that the system of
Beyers neither receives compressed coded indications of
channel, date, time of day and program length, nor decodes and
expands such information into a set of individual commands as
recited in claims 106 and 142.
As noted above, Welles was cited by the examiner for
its teaching of compressed data. Appellants argue that the
compression of data in Welles has nothing to do with
compressing coded indications of channel, data, time of day
and program length information as recited in claims 106 and
142. Appellants are again correct that the only compression
of data in Welles occurs after the data has already been
entered into the system. The Welles universal remote only
“learns” the meaning of the individual inputs of a master
remote, and this learned information is simply stored in
compressed form to save memory space. There is no compression
of coded indications representative of channel, data, time of
day and program length information in Welles.
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