On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 13:04 -0400, Jon Smirl wrote: > On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab > <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Em 28-07-2010 11:41, Jon Smirl escreveu: > > Are there any IR protocols less than 20 (or 17) years old? If they are > older than that the patents have expired. I expect IR use to decline > in the future, it will be replaced with RF4CE radio remotes. UEI's XMP protocol for one, IIRC. UEI are the folks that sell/make "OneForALL" branded remotes. You can read about their patents' remaining lifetimes in this March 2010 SEC filing: http://www.faqs.org/sec-filings/100315/UNIVERSAL-ELECTRONICS-INC_10-K/ 1 to 18 years - that includes the ones they just bought from Zilog. That is not to say that all those patents cover protocols. Regards, Andy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
