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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 06, 2006
Oscar C. Miramontes, El Paso, TX (US);
Oscar C. Miramontes, El Paso, TX (US);
UEI Cayman Inc., Santa Ana, CA (US);
Abstract
A codeset database for a universal remote control device includes a device index table, a key index table, protocol tables, and a set of keycode data structures. A keycode data structure includes a plurality of keycode data structure pointers (KDSPs) and one or more optional keycodes. In a star linking method, a keycode data structure is linked to multiple keycode data structures by pointing to those keycode data structures using multiple KDSPs. In a cluster linking method, a keycode data structure is linked to multiple keycode data structures by being pointed by those keycode data structures. A keycode data structure may not contain any actual keycodes, but a plurality of keycode data structure pointers and other information. A special value inside the keycode data structure is used to indicate whether and how keycode data structures are linked together.