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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 1995
Filed:
Jul. 19, 1994
Applicant:
Inventor:
Kazuo Hashimoto, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Hashimoto Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
379102 ; 379104 ; 348734 ;
Abstract
A remotely controlled device for making videotape recording reservations on a videocassette recorder using a remote pushbutton telephone to enter recording reservation codes such as PlusCodes, constructed so that the audio portion of the TV program currently being recorded can be monitored by the user via the telephone whenever the user calls up the device. Prior to the inputting of the recording reservation codes, the user may turn off the transmission of the audio portion of the TV program by transmitting a specific code in order to ensure that the audio portion of the TV program does not mask the sound of DTMF tones during inputting of reservation codes.