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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 22, 1997
Filed:
Apr. 04, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
Bernard Van Steenbrugge, Eindhoven, NL;
Assignee:
U.S. Philips Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
34082524 ; 34082552 ; 34082556 ; 455-41 ;
Abstract
A control system for controlling consumer apparatus. In the system, a command item is generated in one apparatus and supplied to another apparatus via a bus. The command item includes an operation code followed by zero or more operand codes for, in an addressee apparatus, addressing a command table. The latter thereupon outputs appropriate information for the addressee apparatus, without the addressor apparatus needing to specify the latter information.