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US 2016/0366456 A1Published application
Device that is automatically programmable according to location
AssigneeU-Me Holdings LLC
InventorDerek P. Martin
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Abstract
A device allows dynamically programming the device according to location. The device includes a communication interface that allows the device to communicate with a remote database. A location is specified, and the location and stored user settings corresponding to a user determine suitable settings for the device at that location. The device is then dynamically reprogrammed according to the location information and the user settings to make the device suitable to the user and the location.
Claims15
A method for programming a device comprising:
- a user authenticating to a remote computer system that includes user settings corresponding to the user;
- the user specifying to the remote computer system a location that has corresponding location settings stored in the remote computer system;
- the remote computer system comparing the user settings with the location settings;
- when conversion is not needed, the remote computer system downloads the user settings as suitable location settings for the specified location to the device;
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- when conversion is needed, the remote computer system converts the user settings to the suitable location settings for the specified location and downloads the suitable location settings to the device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.