Patent ID: 6996439

Claim:
A recording medium having a recorded, computer-executable program for performing a one-way-direction data transmission to transmit a common set of rules to each of plural data receiving apparatuses, each said data receiving apparatus controlling at least one controlled apparatus that is one of a predetermined kind of apparatus, wherein different apparatuses of said kind of apparatus have a primary operation function that is common to all said apparatuses of said kind, but wherein different apparatuses of said kind also have different specific parameters that identify different specific features of each data receiving apparatus, and each said data receiving apparatus selecting, from a received said common set of rules, a specific rule corresponding to one of said specific parameters of said at least one controlled apparatus, wherein said specific rule is used to control said at least one controlled apparatus, said computer-executable program causes steps to occur, said steps comprising: generating rules to provide generated rules that include a specific rule corresponding to said specific parameter of each controlled apparatus of said kind of controlled apparatuses; converting said generated rules into converted data to provide a set of rules, and transmitting said converted data to all said plural data receiving apparatuses as said common set of rules.