Appeal No. 2006-2475
Application No. 10/411,792
access of Kemink before him/her and appellants have not convinced
us of any error in our analysis by any cogent arguments to the
contrary.
Appellants argue that the combination of the references
still only provides for the “manual” creation of command
sequences by a user at the remote control (page 9 of the
principal brief). We do not agree. The pre-programmed sequence
may be manually input initially, but once this sequence is stored
in the flash memory, it is available for use. Kemink’s
disclosure would have suggested having such pre-programmed
sequences at an Internet Web site for downloading to the client
computer when needed, rather than accessing such sequences from
flash memory.
Appellants argue, at page 4 of the reply brief, that even if
the macros created by van Ee may be made accessible via an
Internet Web site, it is submitted that nowhere does Kemink
disclose or suggest that appliance identity data would be “used”
at an Internet Web server to access any such macros. We
disagree.
Since Kemink provides a means for accessing and downloading
graphic user interfaces corresponding to appliances that are
included in a user’s inventory of controllable appliances (page
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