Appeal No. 2006-2475
Application No. 10/411,792
with regard to claims 22, 23, 25-31, 33-38, 40-45, and 47-50,
adding Goldstein with regard to claims 24, 32, 39, and 46.
Reference is made to the supplemental brief of January 23,
2006 (principal brief), the reply brief of May 8, 2006 (reply
brief) and the answer for the respective positions of appellants
and the examiner.
OPINION
With regard to the independent claims, the examiner applies
Kemink and van Ee as follows:
The examiner cites page 4, lines 28-31, of Kemink for the
receipt at an Internet Web site data that (page 6, lines 10-20)
functions to identify at least one of a plurality of consumer
electronic devices, whereby the Web site uses the data to access
a plurality of macros and configurations associated with
appliances or devices for causing one of the plurality of
consumer electronic devices to perform a plurality of operations
when a configurable key of the remote control is actuated. The
examiner also cites Figure 1 of Kemink to show the displaying to
a user a list of appliances prompting the user to select the
appliance on the display screen 210, and the examiner cites page
6, lines 1-10 of the reference to show “accepting from the user…a
selection of at least one of the pre-programmed sequences for
downloading from the Internet Web site for use in the remote
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