Patent ID: 8712245
Filing Date: 2014-04-29
Classification: G08C,H04B

Abstract:
1. An infrared dongle for communicating with one or more consumer devices, the infrared dongle comprising: an infrared transmitter to transmit one or more infrared signals to the one or more consumer devices; a microcontroller coupled to the infrared transmitter to control operation of the infrared transmitter, the microcontroller being in communication with an application installed on a mobile device such that the microcontroller receives one or more instructions from the mobile device, the received one or more instructions being generated from codes stored in a memory of the mobile device, the received one or more instructions including non-return-to-zero (NRZ) coded data, wherein the NRZ coded data is bipolar coded data, and wherein receiving the NRZ coded includes using an edge detector, the microcontroller further including a one time programmable read only memory; wherein in response to the microcontroller receiving the one or more instructions from the mobile device, the microcontroller causes the infrared transmitter to transmit the one or more infrared signals to the one or more consumer devices, and wherein the dongle receives power from the mobile device; further wherein the infrared dongle is directly coupled to the mobile device using one or more audio channels of the mobile device such that the microcontroller communicates with the application over the one or more audio channels of the mobile device; and further wherein at least a portion of the one or more instructions received by the microcontroller from the mobile device are sent in an uncompressed format.