Patent ID: 8378875

Claim:
A method for setting up a Remote Control that includes a keyboard, a processor, a memory, and a transmitter, the method comprising the steps of: entering, via the keyboard and processor, a configuration mode; accepting, via the keyboard and processor, an identifier-entry; and scanning, via the processor and memory, though remote control code-sets in a database stored in the memory of the Remote Control, wherein the step of scanning comprises: in case that the identifier-entry is a brand-identifier that identifies a brand, (i) iterating, via the processor and memory, through the remote control code-sets corresponding to the brand and (ii) testing said remote control code-sets by sending, via the transmitter, to a Consumer Electronic device for a given iteration, one or more specific control code functions of a corresponding remote control code-set, and in case that the identifier-entry is a code-set-identifier that identifies a single remote control code-set which in not pointed to by a brand-identifier, testing the single remote control code-set corresponding to the code-set-identifier by sending, via the transmitter, to the Consumer Electronic device one or more specific control code functions of the corresponding single remote control code-set.