H04L 12/281
Indicating a format for calling an appliance service function in a home
Official title: {indicating a format for calling an appliance service function in a home automation network (for remote control or remote monitoring of applications H04L67/025)}
H04L12/281 (Indicating a format for calling an appliance service function in a home) appears on 483 US grants and 581 published applications in this corpus.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Home audio/video network with two level device control1,918US 6,032,202 ASony Corporation of Japan · 2000
- Browser based command and control home network693US 6,288,716 B1Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. · 2001
- Data driven remote device control model with general programming interface-to-network messaging adapter642US 7,085,814 B1Microsoft Corporation · 2006
- Programming tool for home networks with an HTML page for a plurality of home devices634US 6,182,094 B2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. · 2001
- Synchronization of controlled device state using state table and eventing in data-driven remote device control model518US 6,725,281 B1Microsoft Corporation · 2004