US 9,520,056 B2Granted

System and methods for enhanced remote control functionality

AssigneeUniversal Electronics Inc.

InventorsArsham Hatambeiki, Jeffrey Kohanek, Pamela Eichler Keiles, Ramzi Ammari

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Abstract

A hand-held device has a housing having a top surface and a bottom surface opposite the top surface, at least one transmitter, a first user interface associated with the top surface of the housing having first user interface input elements which, when active, are actuatable to cause the at least one transmitter to transmit communications to an external device, and a second user interface associated with the bottom surface of the housing having second user interface input elements which, when active, are actuatable to cause the at least one transmitter to transmit communications to an external device. The hand-held device is programmed to selectively make one of the first user interface input elements of the first user interface and the second user interface input elements of the second user interface active while making the other of the first user interface input elements of the first user interface and the second user interface input elements of the second user interface inactive.

Claims21

Dependent claims

A hand-held device, comprising:

a housing having a top surface and a bottom surface opposite the top surface;
at least one transmitter carried by the housing;
a first user interface associated with the top surface of the housing having first user interface input elements which, when active, are actuatable to cause the at least one transmitter to transmit communications to an external device;
a second user interface associated with the bottom surface of the housing having second user interface input elements which, when active, are actuatable to cause the at least one transmitter to transmit communications to an external device;
and
a processing device having associated programming for selectively making one of the first user interface input elements of the first user interface and the second user interface input elements of the second user interface active while making the other of the first user interface input elements of the first user interface and the second user interface input elements of the second user interface inactive;
wherein the processor and associated programming considers received signals each having an assigned priority when selectively making one of the first user interface input elements of the first user interface and the second user interface input elements of the second user interface active while making the other of the first user interface input elements of the first user interface and the second user interface input elements of the second user interface inactive.

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In a hand-held device comprising a housing having a top surface and a bottom surface opposite the top surface, at least one transmitter carried by the housing, a first user interface associated with the top surface of the housing having first user interface input elements which, when active, are actuatable to cause the at least one transmitter to transmit communications to an external device, a second user interface associated with the bottom surface of the housing having second user interface input elements which, when active, are actuatable to cause the at least one transmitter to transmit communications to an external device, and method for making one of the first user interface input elements of the first user interface and the second user interface input elements of the second user interface active while making the other of the first user interface input elements of the first user interface and the second user interface input elements of the second user interface inactive, comprising:

receiving a plurality of signals;
using a priority assigned to each of the plurality of received signals to determine which one of the first user interface input elements of the first user interface and the second user interface input elements of the second user interface to make active;
and
making the other of the first user interface input elements of the first user interface and the second user interface input elements of the second user interface inactive.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 12/849,497Filed 3 Aug 2010 · us provisional application
Priority: 11 May 2010
Published: US 2011/0279375 A117 Nov 2011
Granted: 13 Dec 2016
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification17 codes

G08C 17/02
Arrangements for transmitting signals characterised by the use of a wireless electrical link: using a radio link
G06F 3/02
Input arrangements or combined input and output arrangements for interaction between user and computer: input arrangements using manually operated…
G06F 3/0346
Pointing devices displaced or positioned by the user , e.g. mice, trackballs, pens or joysticks; Accessories therefor: with detection of the…
G06F 3/03547
With detection of two-dimensional [2D] relative movements between the device, or an operating part thereof, and a plane or surface, e.g. 2D…

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Application61/333,567Us provisional application · filed 11 May 2010
US 2011/0279375 A1Pre-grant publication · published 17 Nov 2011
US 9,520,056 B2This patent

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