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Serial No. 7 0 0 , 6 1 0
Filed: August 12, 1 9 9 6
PATENT
specification of the '610 application uses the term "move" to
describe the action of the memory selection switch, as at
column 3 , Lines 7 , "The switch 2 3 can be moved to a number of
seiected position indicated by the 1 through 5 so as to allow
the particular code of a number of different transmitters to
be stored in the receiver so that the receiver will respond to
such codes."] And, the "if/then" nature of the disclosed code
locatron pointer loop is typical of many, if not most,
programming languages. The popular BASIC language provides
exactly this programming structure, and the
"C"
language
provides an "if -else" control statement.
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For each of the terms frcm Figure 3 discussed above,
that terminology will be readily recognized by those skilled
in the art as, and only as, being descriptive of a software
based method for moving the software memory selection switch
so that it will "point" to a new memory location by ( a )
maintaining the value of that pointer in a memory location of
own or in a register within the microprocessor of the GDO;
its
(b) increasing the value of that pointer by one each time a
new transmitter's identity code is to be programmed into the
GDO; (c) testing the incremented value of the pointer to see
if
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has moved past the end of the memory area designated for
stclr-ng the programmed transmitter identity codes; and (d)
t k
if
e-nd has been passed, loading a new value into the pc-nter
which will reset it to its starting value
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