Patent ID: 9412261
Filing Date: 2016-08-09
CPC Classification: G08C,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A system, comprising: packaging for an appliance, the packaging having a machine readable tag storing standardized information that functions to identify at least the appliance and manufacturer of the appliance; and a universal remote control having a transmission circuit for communicating commands to the appliance, a device dedicated to obtaining data from the machine readable tag of the packaging, and a setup program that uses data obtained from the machine readable tag of the packaging via the device dedicated to obtaining data from the machine readable tag to cause select commands to be mapped to select command keys of the universal remote control whereby the universal remote control is set up such that subsequent activation of one or more of the select command keys of the universal remote control causes the universal remote control to issue via the transmission circuit one or more of the select commands to thereby command operation of the appliance.