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| Authored by: albert on Monday, September 03 2012 @ 03:58 PM EDT |
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, September 03 2012 @ 05:27 PM EDT |
How much of the patent did you read?
It's for a "System and Method for Simplified Control of Electronic
Devices".
From what I can tell, the patent is actually for an AppleTV-like device which
controls other devices, such as a TV or video game controller, through a
specific method, possibly over NFC or RFID.
It certainly isn't for "a video game controller with a D-pad, two analog
input
sticks, four buttons for the right thumb, start and select buttons in the
center,
and four shoulder buttons." The video game controller is just an example of
a
device that the controller-device can interact with.
Less misinformation, please.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: soronlin on Monday, September 03 2012 @ 06:44 PM EDT |
It's for a universal remote control device as an iPhone app. There's other stuff
in there of course which I wont go into detail on in case anyone reading doesn't
want to be contaminated. Suffice it to say I find it mildly surprising that
there is no combination of readily available prior art which can in combination
render this obvious, although there probably is not a single such object.
It's a neat idea, but one I would not consider patentable even if software
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, September 03 2012 @ 07:10 PM EDT |
It might be a good time to gather prior art. This is
essentially a QR or NFC link to download a remote control app
for that product to an iPhone.
As there are plenty of QR codes that link to Apps, then this
could form the basis of invalidation. If a product comes with
a QR code to link to software that can be used with the device
to interact with it then this would surely be a good
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