Appeal No. 1996-4065
Application No. 08/234,115
separate functions.
Representative independent claim 5 is reproduced as
follows:
5. A method for remotely controlling operations of
at least two different apparatus from a remote controller
having a keyboard with keys that are depressed to initiate
data instructions that are transmitted to said apparatus, said
method comprising:
actuating on said keyboard a key assigned for
the control of at least two consecutive operations of said at
least two different apparatus;
detecting the actuation of said key assigned for
the control of at least two consecutive operations; and
in response to said detection of said key,
transmitting consecutively to said at least two apparatus at
least two preset data instructions limited to product signal
formats corresponding to said at least two apparatus, said
data instructions being received by each of said at least two
apparatus to control different operations in at least two of
said apparatus, wherein some keys (single function keys) on
said keyboard are preassigned to result in single data
instructions being generated and transmitted by said remote
controller and other keys (plural function keys) on said
keyboard are preassigned to result in plural data instructions
being generated and transmitted by said remote controller, and
wherein the step of detecting the actuation comprises:
detecting whether or not any key on said
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