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Trial selection of STB remote control codes

  • US 7,966,552 B2
  • Filed: 02/14/2007
  • Issued: 06/21/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/16/2006
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method of identifying a functional command set for an access device that accesses television programming provided by a service provider, comprising:

  • at a control device;

    transmitting a first command from a first command set of a plurality of possible command sets for the access device to the access device, wherein the first command comprises a command that causes the access device to generate a video output that includes text;

    processing the video output of the access device using an optical character recognition (OCR) process that extracts text from the video output;

    determining whether the extracted text corresponds to the first command set; and

    identifying, in response to determining that the extracted text corresponds to the first command set, the first command set as the functional command set for the access device.

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