Appeal No. 2006-2475
Application No. 10/411,792
electronic devices.
Kemink does not appear to teach that the Internet Web site
uses the data to access a plurality of pre-programmed sequences
each comprising instructions for causing one or more of the
plurality of consumer electronic devices to perform a plurality
of operations when a configurable key of the remote control is
actuated. These pre-programmed sequences each comprising
instructions may be thought of as “macros,” or short-cut notation
for an otherwise lengthy description of a function. Thus, what
Kemink really seems to be missing is a description of the
Internet Web site using data to access macros when a configurable
key of the remote control is actuated.
The use of macros is well known, as described by Kemink, for
enhancing the ease of use of consumer electronic devices (see
page 4, lines 13-14, of Kemink). Kemink even describes an
Internet Web site providing links to providers of graphic user
interfaces, such as system integrators who provide configurations
and macros based on an inventory of the user’s controllable
equipment. (See page 5, lines 2-5, of Kemink).
Kemink discloses a display, as on client computer system 210
in Figure 2, and describes a plurality of appliances 251-254 to
be controlled. Clearly, a list of these appliances may be
displayed on the computer screen and the artisan would have found
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