US 2005/0097618 A1 · System and method for saving and recalling state data for media and home appliances

Abstract

A system and method is disclosed for enabling a user to save and recall media playback and device setting states across multiple sets of home appliances. A set of media playback and device settings data from each home appliance of a first set of home appliances is stored on a central server and/or sent to a remote control device upon initiation of a suspend command by a user. The stored media and devices states may be used at a later time to control the first set of home appliances, or a user may, after relocating to a second set of home appliances, initiate a resume state command whereupon media playback and device settings data from the central server and/or remote control device controls each home appliance in the second set of home appliances to bring about the same or substantially similar media and device states as in the first set of home appliances. Programming on the remote control and/or central server may cause appropriate state data conversions to occur before commanding operation of the second set of home appliances in order to more closely emulate the media and device states saved from the first set of home appliances.

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Dependent claims

A method for saving and recalling device and media states for one or more media rendering systems, the method comprising:

initiating a save state command with respect to a first media rendering system;
capturing data from the first media rendering system indicative of the device and media states during the initiation of the save state command;
saving the captured data in a format and location such that the captured data may be accessed and further processed during subsequent recall operations;
initiating a recall state command corresponding to the captured data, with respect to a second media rendering system;
determining if the saved captured data requires further processing for application to the second media rendering system;
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when the saved captured data is determined to require further processing for application to the second media rendering system, generating converted data from the saved captured data whereby application of the converted data to the second media rendering system brings about device and media states for the second media rendering system comparable to those present during the save state command initiation for the first media rendering system.

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System and method for saving and recalling state data for media and home appliances

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