System and method for connecting employee status via office light switch
OwnerJeffrey Allen Jones, Douglas Scott Rothertinventors
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Abstract
A system, method, and program product that generates a person's status value at a status indicator device, and that replicates the status to at least one additional status indicator device. The status indicator device is selected from one or more status indicator devices, wherein at least one of the status indicator devices is a light switch and wherein the status value is set based upon a setting of the light switch. Other embodiments are also disclosed.
Claims20
A computer-implemented method for indicating status of a user comprising:
- generating a status value at a status indicator device selected from one or more status indicator devices, wherein at least one of the status indicator devices is a light switch and wherein the status value is set based upon a setting of the light switch;
- replicating the status to at least one additional status indicator device;
- retrieving, from a configuration data store, one or more actions that correspond to at least one of the status indicator devices, wherein the actions stored in the configuration data store are configured to the user and to one or more of the status indicator devices;
- and
- performing the retrieved actions.
An information handling system comprising:
- one or more processors;
- a memory accessible by at least one of the processors;
- a nonvolatile storage area accessible by at least one of the processors;
- a network interface that connects the information handling system to a computer network, the network interface being accessible by at least one of the processors;
- and
- a set of instructions stored in the memory, wherein at least one of the processors executes the set of instructions in order to perform actions of:
- generating a status value at a status indicator device selected from one or more status indicator devices, wherein at least one of the status indicator devices is a light switch and wherein the status value is set based upon a setting of the light switch;
- replicating the status to at least one additional status indicator device;
- retrieving, from a configuration data store, one or more actions that correspond to at least one of the status indicator devices, wherein the actions stored in the configuration data store are configured to the user and to one or more of the status indicator devices;
- and
- performing the retrieved actions.
A computer program product stored in a computer readable medium, comprising functional descriptive material that, when executed by a data processing system, causes the data processing system to perform actions that include:
- generating a status value at a status indicator device selected from one or more status indicator devices, wherein at least one of the status indicator devices is a light switch and wherein the status value is set based upon a setting of the light switch;
- replicating the status to at least one additional status indicator device;
- retrieving, from a configuration data store, one or more actions that correspond to at least one of the status indicator devices, wherein the actions stored in the configuration data store are configured to the user and to one or more of the status indicator devices;
- and
- performing the retrieved actions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.