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AssigneeInventio AG
InventorVimal Patel
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An elevator system has a control system linked to a plurality of functional components and a plurality of individually configurable user interfaces. Each of the user interfaces has a light detection unit with a light sensor. A portable configuration device has a human-machine interface, a light source and a data processing unit that codes data entered by a user via the human-machine interface for controlling the light source to generate a sequence of lights of different brightnesses. This sequence of lights is detected by the light detection unit and converted into an item of information used to configure the user interface, for example, to transmit to the control system a position at which the user interface is located. Thus, the control system can clearly identify user interfaces that are connected in series.
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An elevator system, comprising:
A portable configuration device, comprising:
A computer program product comprising machine-readable instructions that, when loaded into a data processing unit of a programmable configuration device, code data, which data are entered by a user via a human-machine interface of the configuration device for configuring an elevator system, into control data for controlling a light source of the configuration device to generate a series of lights with different brightness levels as an optical signal to be used to configure the elevator system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.