Patent ID: 8484671

Claim:
A system for interfacing at least one access card with at least one integrated receiver decoder, said system comprising: a housing; at least one card reader in the housing; an electrical interface in the housing, the electrical interface being between the at least one card reader and the at least one integrated receiver decoder; a plurality of slots for holding a plurality of access cards, each of the plurality of slots in selective electrical communication with said at least one card reader through an electrical interface; a processor for controlling a selection of only one of the plurality of access cards to provide information to the at least one integrated receiver decoder to allow access to programming, wherein said processor further comprises predetermined access conditions programmed therein that determine the selection of an access card, whereby upon the predetermined access conditions being met by the one of the plurality of access cards, the removal of an existing access card from the integrated receiver decoder and the insertion of another access card into the integrated receiver decoder is automatically simulated.