Appeal 2007-1712
Application 10/696,395
Sheppard
6. Sheppard teaches a residential gateway (RG) for distributing
video, data and telephone services to multiple devices within a reference
(col. 1, ll. 57-67).
7. The residential gateway includes MPEG modules that
decompress incoming video signals and modulate the decompressed analog
format video signal onto an available television channel for transmission to
remotely located televisions (col. 10, ll. 49-58).
8. The remotely located televisions would be set to a particular
channel, for example channel 3 or 4 just like a VCR, and the channel
selection for the remotely located televisions would then be controlled by a
wireless remote control associated with each remotely located television, the
channel select commands being transmitted directly to a wireless receiver
within the residential gateway (col. 10, ll. 27-34).
Ellis
9. Ellis teaches a video distribution system in which each
television in a house is equipped with a set-top box, which receives program
guide data, and which transmits information such as pay-per-view program
orders to the information provider (para. [0064]).
10. The user may select one television in the house as the “master,”
on which that user may control settings (such as parental access controls) for
all other televisions in the house. The user interface assigns locations to the
other television in the house, for ease of identification of one set as the
master (para. [0089]-[0091]).
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