Patent ID: 7339514

Claim:
A control device ( 3 , 4 ) for controlling at least one device (PC, DVD, RADIO, MP3, TV 1 , TV 2 , B 1 , B 2 , TV 1 , TV 2 , M) having input means ( 5 ) for manual entering of input information (EI) associated with a control command (SB) for controlling the at least one device (PC, DVD, RADIO, MP3, TV 1 , TV 2 , B 1 , B 2 , TV 1 , TV 2 , M) and having processing means ( 9 ) for encoding the entered input information (EI) and for outputting transmission information (DOC) and having transmission means ( 10 ) for transmitting the transmission information in accordance with a transmission method to transmission means ( 11 ) of the device in order to activate the control command in the device, characterized in that the processing means ( 9 ) comprise command-encoding means ( 14 ) for encoding the entered input information (EI) in accordance with a command-encoding method independent of the transmission method, wherein a command document (DOC) is created as transmission information, which command document (DOC) contains, in the form of text editable with a text editor, a control command (SB) associated with the entered input information (EI).