Patent ID: 8253528

Claim:
A trainable transceiver system for providing an activation signal characteristic to a portable transmitter, the trainable transceiver system comprising: a transceiver configured to receive a characteristic of an activation signal from an original transmitter for actuating a remote device; a light emitting diode (LED) configured to transmit the characteristic of the activation signal via an optical transmission to an optical receiver of the portable transmitter; and a control circuit configured to store the characteristic of the activation signal in a memory, and to cause the LED to transmit the stored characteristic of the activation signal in response to an input signal from an operator input device, wherein the control circuit is further configured to cause the transceiver to transmit the activation signal in response to the input signal from the operator input device, wherein the control circuit is further configured to light the LED in response to the input signal from the operator input device and to visually communicate information to a user of the system, wherein the control circuit is further configured to modulate the LED, while the LED is lit for visually communicating information to the user, to create a light signal having data packets for transmitting the characteristic of the activation signal to the optical receiver of the portable transmitter.