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US 2014/0273818 A1Published application
Immersive Positioning and Paring
AssigneeComcast Cable Communications, LLC
InventorMichael Sallas
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Abstract
Systems, methods, software, and data structures that provide dynamic lighting are described herein. The light sources, or other position-dependent devices may be paired to a device controller using near field communications (NFC) or other extremely short range radio technology, to share both pairing information and position information in a unified process.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- pairing a plurality of position-dependent devices to a device controller;
- and
- exchanging pairing and position information via a transfer device using radio frequency (RF) communications.
A method comprising:
- receiving first pairing information via a transceiver when an apparatus is placed in proximity to a device controller, said first pairing information associated with the device controller;
- when the apparatus is subsequently placed in proximity to each of a plurality of position dependent devices, sending the first pairing information to that position-dependent device, and receiving second pairing information associated with that position-dependent device;
- and
- when the apparatus is subsequently placed in proximity to the device controller, sending position information to the device controller, said position information in the form of ordered second pairing information for each of the plurality of position-dependent devices.
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An apparatus, comprising:
- a transceiver;
- a device controller;
- a processor;
- and
- memory storing machine readable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the apparatus to perform:
- identifying a number of position-dependent devices to be controlled by the device controller;
- determining a layout of the position-dependent devices;
- transmitting pairing information to a transfer device via the transceiver during a first communication session;
- receiving ordered pairing information for each of the plurality of position dependent devices from the transfer device via the transceiver during a second communication session subsequent to the first communication session;
- and
- determining an association of each of the plurality of position-dependent devices to the layout based on the ordered pairing information.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.