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US 6,069,672 AGranted
Remote control for a receiver
AssigneeC.I.S. Hotel Communications GmbH
InventorHenning J. Claassen
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Abstract
A cordless remote control for a receiver, more particularly for a television set, comprising a reader for a data medium, said data medium containing information for the activating the remote control and/or at least one program channel of said receiver.
Claims28
A cordless remote control for television set of a pay TV system comprising
- a) a reader for a data medium, said data medium containing information for activating said remote control and/or at least one program channel of a receiver,
- wherein
- b) said remote control is assigned a code (c);
- and
- c) said remote control comprises
- c1) a device for writing said code (c) of said remote control on said data medium,
- c2) a device for reading said code (c) from said data medium on said remote control, and
- c3) a device for comparing said read code (c) to said code (c) of said remote control and for controlling the unblocking of said remote control.
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A method of unblocking a remote control for a television set of a pay TV system, wherein
- a) a code (C) assigned to said remote control is written onto a data medium by a writer integrated in said remote control;
- b) said code (C) stored on said data medium is read by said remote control;
- c) said code (C) assigned to said remote control is compared to said code (C) read from said data medium;
- and
- d) it being established from said comparison whether said data medium has already been used for unblocking some other remote control.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.