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US 2019/0271958 A1Published application
Device for remotely controlling an appliance
AssigneeOrange
InventorsThierry Gaillet, Sylvain Leroux
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Abstract
A device, which is intended to remotely control at least one operation of at least one appliance, includes an input interface module for receiving inputs from a user, and a communication module for sending to a management platform data which represent a control instruction activated by the user. Such a device can have universal remote control functionality, with an additional contextualization functionality.
Claims11
A device, intended to remotely control at least one operation of at least one appliance, and comprising:
- a face;
- a processor, operationally coupled to a memory, the processor being configured to determine a control instruction for the appliance on the basis of a combination of several control instruction elements displayed on the face of the device, by configuration of different parts of the face on which are respectively inscribed the control instruction elements, said different parts of the face being juxtaposed in said face to form the combination of the control instruction elements;
- an inscription module, configured to inscribe, under control of the processor, the control instruction elements on the respective parts of the face of the device;
- an input interface module, configured to receive inputs from a user, the input interface module comprising a detection module configured to detect an activation of the control instruction of the appliance by a user;
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- a communication module, configured to send, to a management platform via a data communication network, data which represent the control instruction activated by the user.
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A method for remotely controlling an operation of at least one appliance, by a device comprising:
- a face;
- a processor, operationally coupled to a memory, the processor being configured to determine a control instruction for the appliance on the basis of a combination of several control instruction elements displayed on the face of the device, by configuration of different parts of the face on which are respectively inscribed the control instruction elements, said different parts of the face being juxtaposed in said face to form the combination of the control instruction elements;
- an inscription module, configured to inscribe, under control of the processor, the control instruction elements on the respective parts of the face of the device;
- an input interface module, configured to receive inputs from a user, the input interface module comprising a detection module configured to detect an activation of the control instruction of the appliance by a user;
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- a communication module, configured to send, to a management platform via a data communication network, data which represent the control instruction activated by the user,
- the method comprising the following acts, executed by the device:
- /1/ establishing the data communication link between the device and the management platform;
- /2/ receiving from the management platform data for configuring at least some of the face parts of the device by assigning control instruction elements to said face parts;
- /3/ inscribing the control instruction elements on the face parts to which said control instruction elements are assigned;
- /4/ receiving an input from the user, and activating the control instruction which appears on the face of the device, called an active face, on the basis of the user input received;
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- /5/ sending to the management platform data which represent the control instruction which has been activated by the user.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.