Patent ID: 8311490

Claim:
A control system for mounting in a vehicle and for transmitting a signal to a receiver associated with a device for opening or closing a movable barrier when the receiver receives an authorized signal, the control system comprising: a transmitter; memory storing a first set of messages for including with transmissions to the receiver from the transmitter; an interface configured to receive a second set of messages from at least one of a portable electronic device and a remote system, wherein the second set of messages comprises a plurality of messages; a circuit configured to provide the second set of messages to the memory for storage; and a user input interface configured to receive an indication of user input from a user interface element and to provide the indication to the circuit; wherein the circuit is configured to determine whether to provide: (a) at least one message of the first set of messages, or (b) at least one message of the second set of messages, from the memory to the transmitter for transmission to the receiver in response to the indication received from the user input interface, wherein the determination is based on whether the second set of messages is associated with a supported transmission scheme of the transmitter, wherein the circuit determines to provide the at least one message of the first set of messages when the second set of messages is not associated with a supported transmission scheme of the transmitter; wherein the first and second set of messages comprise at least one of rolling code messages and fixed code messages.