Appeal No. 2006-2475
Application No. 10/411,792
sequences, can be stored in and retrieved from flash memory
(column 4, lines 49-62) for use in customizing, or programming a
remote control.
It appears clear to us that artisans viewing the teachings
of Kemink and van Ee together would have taken from those
teachings the use of stored pre-programmed sequences for
customizing remote controls (van Ee) and the use of an Internet
Web site for accessing, accepting and downloading information,
viz., graphic interface codes for electronic devices (Kemink),
leading the artisan to recognize that rather than store the pre-
programmed sequences in a flash memory, as in van Ee, one could
just as well, obtain these pre-programmed sequences from an
Internet Web site, and that such an Internet Web site would allow
the user to easily specify a target appliance, or collection of
appliances, and thereafter selectively download one or more pre-
programmed sequence, or macro, available for the target appliance
(see pages 4, line 33, through page 5, line 1, of Kemink).
Appellants’ argument about van Ee failing to disclose
receiving or downloading anything from the Internet is not
persuasive because it is Kemink which provides this teaching.
At page 7 of the principal brief, appellants argue that van
Ee discloses only manual entry to program a command sequence.
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