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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2005
Filed:
Feb. 11, 2002
Robert Study, Arlington Heights, IL (US);
Eric Robb, Carol Stream, IL (US);
Robert Rainey, Temecula, CA (US);
Robert Study, Arlington Heights, IL (US);
Eric Robb, Carol Stream, IL (US);
Robert Rainey, Temecula, CA (US);
The Chamberlain Group, Inc., Elmhurst, IL (US);
Abstract
A control devicefor use with another device (such as a movable barrier operator) has multiple memory interfacesandto permit the contents of one memory to be copied to another memory to thereby create an effective clone of the first memory. This copied memory is easily removable from the control deviceand thereafter stored separately as a back-up memory or used as the main memory in another control device. This effectively avoids a need for more tedious registration of authorized remote control transmitters in systems where the control deviceinterfaces with a movable barrier operator. In one embodiment, blocking information as corresponds to any of the otherwise registered transmitters can also be copied to the new memory when effecting this process.