Appeal No. 2004-2179
Application No. 09/785,919
line 10 and the description of figure 2 may be simply stated that
the wireless remote control unit 50 in this figure indirectly
controls the TV by directly controlling the personal computer.
The second feature of this portion relied upon by the examiner is
the plain statement at lines 23-25 that personal computer
commands may be transmitted from the wireless control unit to the
personal computer to control the personal computer alone.
Thus, in the context of claim 26, the figure 2 circuitry
receives a first keyboard command from the remote control unit
50’ in a first format for a first consumer device for the
television and provides a manner in which the translation occurs
to the second format to actually control the first consumer
device which is the television. The translation occurs from the
UHF formats and command structures from the remote control unit
50' to the UHF transceiver 24 within the personal computer 12 to
in turn transmit television commands to the UHF transceiver 204
within the television interface housing 202 which in turn
converts the formats and keyboard commands into commands
acceptable by the IR converter 206 to therefore control through
IR commands 218 the television 40. The receiving of the second
command structure and the translation of it obviously occurs with
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