Remote control with LED capabilities

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 6496135
SERIAL NO

09871872

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A universal remote control comprising a keyboard having a plurality of pushbuttons including a macro pushbutton and a library of codes and data for use in transmitting operating commands to a plurality of different home appliances of different manufacturers. Instructions within the remote control are used to match the universal remote control to a plurality of different home appliances of different manufacturers such that selected codes and data from the library are used to transmit operating commands to the matched home appliances in response to activation of selected pushbuttons of the keyboard. The instructions are also used to assign to the macro pushbutton a subset of the selected codes and data from the library whereafter activation of the macro pushbutton causes the universal remote control to use the subset of selected codes and data from the library to transmit operating commands to one or more of the matched home appliances.

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UNIVERSAL ELECTRONICS INC201 EAST SANDPOINTE AVENUE 8TH FLOOR SANTA ANA CA 92707

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  • 2001 Application Filing Year
  • G08C Class
  • 283 Applications Filed
  • 104 Patents Issued To-Date
  • 36.75 % Issued To-Date
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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Darbee, Paul V Santa Ana, CA 28 2769

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