Appeal No. 2007-0421
Application No. 10/151,635
link to an internet server, and using, at the internet server, the data that functions to identify the
appliance to retrieve from the database control codes to which the appliance is adapted to
respond, and receiving the control codes retrieved from the database at the device having internet
connectivity.
The examiner turns to Allport for these limitations, pointing specifically to column 22,
lines 10-32 (for causing data that functions to identify the appliance to be uploaded from the
device), to column 26, lines 11-16 (for uploading data associated with the appliance
identification to specify a device IPS associated library data or command data), and to column
29, lines 12-15 (for the rest of the deficient limitations). See page 5 of the answer.
The examiner concludes that it would have been obvious to include causing the data that
functions to identify the appliance learned by the remote control to be uploaded from the remote
control using internet connectivity to an internet server having a database of control codes,
sending the database control codes to the remote controller to program the remote controller in
the device of Yang because Allport teaches using data that specifies the appliance to be uploaded
from the controller using the internet to retrieve from the database control codes to which the
appliance is adapted to respond, and receiving the control codes retrieved from the database at
the device for the purpose of providing wider product availability. See pages 5-6 of the answer.
Appellants’ response is to argue that neither reference teaches or suggests a download
mechanism including accessing, via a network, a database of control codes for commanding
operations of a plurality of different appliances and using identity data uploaded from the
controlling device to retrieve from that database those control codes to which the appliance so
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