"Here comes Template-Firmware!"

Now you have it.....this is exactly what this phrase meant.

"power source coupled to control circuitry for supplying electrical power to device"

"Power source" is a secondary power source, meaning that the Micro-controller power does not supply the direct power for periphery devices, which would be the norm. Read Gurries consideration of this sepration approach and you will appreciate it.

"device", in that phrase, means periphery components of a CE device.

The interface to that phrase is software select which can be automated with voice command...etc.....meaning that all the periphery of a CE device is switching on and off the secondary power source in order to pull different periphery together as needed.

Templetware...plug and play, meaning easy to devise and implement.

When 774 is mentioned in a law suit, this is the infringement they are going after.

The patent recognize this process as a combined process called.... Micro-processor 21

Or, micro-controller + secondary power source = Micro-processor.

They are going after Micro-processor issues

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