System and method for automatically integrating a device in a networked system
AssigneePhilips Lighting Holding B.V.
InventorRobert VAN HERK
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Abstract
The invention relates to automatically integrating a device in a networked system so that a user does not have to set-up or configure the new device. A basic idea of the invention is to provide an automatic copying procedure of the functionality of a device of a networked system to a new device, which is integrated in the networked system. An embodiment of the invention provides a method for copying the functionality of a device of a networked system to a new device, comprising the automatically performed steps of detecting a new device to be integrated in the networked system, determining a reference device of the networked system, and copying the functionality of the reference device to the new device.
Claims6
A method for automatically integrating a lighting device in a networked lighting system, the method comprising:
- detecting a new lighting device to be integrated in the networked lighting system,
- determining a reference lighting device of the networked lighting system by comparing lighting capabilities of the new lighting device with lighting devices in the networked lighting system, the reference lighting device having lighting capabilities similar to that of the new lighting device, and
- copying functionality of the reference lighting device to the new lighting device,
- wherein determining the reference device of the networked system comprises determining a disconnected lighting device of the networked lighting system, disconnected from the networked system, and further comprises determining the lighting capabilities of the disconnected lighting device.
A networked system remote controller for integrating a lighting device into a networked lighting system, wherein the controller comprises:
- a wireless communication unit configured to wirelessly control lighting devices of the networked lighting system,
- wherein the wireless communication unit is configured to:
- detect a new lighting device to be integrated in the networked lighting system,
- determine a reference lighting device of the networked lighting system by comparing lighting capabilities of the new lighting device with lighting devices in the networked lighting system, the reference lighting device having lighting capabilities similar to that of the new lighting device, and
- copy the functionality of the reference lighting device to the new lighting device,
- wherein the lighting capabilities of a disconnected lighting device disconnected from the networked lighting system are used in determining the reference lighting device of the networked lighting system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.