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US 2003/0151496 A1Published application
Device learning mode method
AssigneeThe Chamberlain Group, Inc.
InventorsRobert Study, Eric Robb, Robert Rainey
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Abstract
A learning mode 40 permits a device 11 to register a plurality of transmitters (as part of authorizing such transmitters to act as remote control devices for use with a movable barrier operator 12) without necessitating intervening user tactile inputs (as through a user interface keypad 33) and without unnecessarily creating a security risk with respect to the duration of the learning mode. In one embodiment, duration of the learning mode is extended in response to detecting indicia that the learning mode continues to be used.
Claims23
A method comprising:
- A) detecting a tactile user input that corresponds to initiation of a learning mode;
- B) monitoring for both additional tactile user input and reception of a wireless transmission;
- C) upon detecting additional tactile user input that comprises identification of an address for a memory location, automatically thereafter storing at that memory location identifying information as is contained in a later received compatible wireless transmission;
- D) upon detecting an earlier received wireless transmission that comprises a compatible wireless transmission containing identifying information before detecting additional tactile user input that comprises identification of an address for a memory location, automatically thereafter storing at an automatically determined memory location the identifying information as corresponds to the earlier received wireless transmission.
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A method comprising:
- A) detecting a tactile user input that corresponds to initiation of a learning mode;
- B) beginning a monitoring window;
- during the monitoring window:
- C) monitoring for both additional tactile user inputs and reception of a wireless transmissions;
- D) upon detecting additional tactile user inputs that comprise identification of an address for a memory location, automatically thereafter storing at that memory location identifying information as is contained in a later received compatible wireless transmission and automatically extending the monitoring window;
- E) upon detecting earlier received wireless transmissions that comprise a compatible wireless transmission containing identifying information before detecting additional tactile user input that comprises identification of an address for a memory location, automatically thereafter storing at an automatically determined memory location the identifying information as corresponds to the earlier received wireless transmission and automatically extending the monitoring window;
- when the monitoring window concludes:
- F) concluding the learning mode;
- such that, during a single learning mode, a plurality of items of identifying information can be stored at memory locations without requiring intervening tactile user inputs.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.