System and method for provision of appliance control functionality to a smart device
AssigneeUniversal Electronics Inc.
InventorsBrandt Thompson, Patrick H. Hayes
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Abstract
A system for use in issuing commands to a plurality of appliances each of a specific one of a plurality of different appliance types includes a smart device adapted to transmit command communications and a plurality of low-energy consuming controllers each adapted to transmit a command to a one of the plurality of appliances of a specific one of the plurality of different appliance types in response to receipt of a command communication originating from the smart device.
Claims12
A non-transitory, computer readable media having instructions stored thereon, the instructions, when executed by a smart device, cause the smart device to perform steps for configuring a low-energy consuming controller to control functional operations of a target appliance comprising:
- receiving from the low-energy consuming controller a data indicative of a type of device which the low-energy consumer controller is dedicated to control;
- receiving a data indicative of at least a brand for the target appliance;
- using the received data indicative of the type of device which the low-energy consumer controller is dedicated to control and the received data indicative of at least the brand of the target appliance to cause a codeset for use in issuing commands to control functional operations of the target appliance to be identified;
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- issuing a communication to the low-energy consumer controller having a data indicative of the identified codeset whereupon the low-energy consumer controller will use the data indicative of the identified codeset received from the smart device to configure itself to use the identified codeset when requested by the smart device to issue a command to control a functional operation of the target appliance.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.