Patent ID: 9582989
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: G06F,G08C,H04N

Claim:
1. A hand-held device comprising: a housing having a top surface and a bottom surface opposite the top surface; at least one transmitter carried by the housing; a receiver carried by the housing; a first user interface associated with the top surface of the housing having first user interface input elements which, when active, are actuatable to cause the at least one transmitter to transmit communications to an external device, a second user interface associated with the bottom surface of the housing having second user interface input elements which, when active, are actuatable to cause the at least one transmitter to transmit communications to an external device, a method for making one of the first user interface input elements of the first user interface and the second user interface input elements of the second user interface active while making the other of the first user interface input elements of the first user interface and the second user interface input elements of the second user interface inactive; and a non-transitory, computer readable media having instructions stored thereon which instructions, when executed by the hand-held device, cause the hand-held device to perform steps comprising: receiving from an external device a selection signal; using the selection signal received from the external device to make one of the first user interface and the second user interface active; making the other of the first user interface and the second user interface inactive; causing a transmission of a signal to the external device in response to an activation of a user interface input element of the active one of the first user interface and second user interface.