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US 2019/0319960 A1Published application
Smart remote control system
AssigneeNetvox Technology Co. Ltd.
InventorShiu-Cheng SHEN
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Abstract
A smart remote control system comprises a plurality of gateway devices and a central management device. The central management device includes an authority management module configured to be operable to select a registered account, to establish a management authority over one of the gateway devices for the selected account, and to generate a bar code corresponding to both of the selected account and the management authority. The bar code may be displayed on an electronic device and scanned by another electronic device for validation of the management authority.
Claims13
A smart remote control system, comprising:
- a plurality of gateway devices, each of which is configured to be coupled to at least one appliance;
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- a central management device which is configured to communicate with said gateway devices, and to store plural pieces of account data and plural pieces of administrator authority data that have been linked to at least some of the pieces of account data, and that are respectively associated with said gateway devices, each of the pieces of administrator authority data specifying authority given to an account associated with a linked one of the pieces of account data regarding access to the at least one appliance coupled to the respective one of said gateway devices, said central management device including
- an authority management module configured to be accessible by an electronic device after a registered account corresponding to one of the pieces of account data that is linked to one of the pieces of administrator authority data has logged in to said central management device via the electronic device, said authority management module including
- a user addition unit configured to be operable to select another one of the pieces of account data when the registered account is logged in to said central management device;
- an authority creation unit configured to, in response to selection of said another one of the pieces of account data, create for said another one of the pieces of account data a piece of user authority data that specifies authority, which is given to another registered account associated with said another one of the pieces of account data regarding access to the at least one appliance coupled to one of said gateway devices that is associated with said one of the pieces of account data and which is different from the authority specified by the pieces of administrator authority data, and generate a bar code to be provided to the electronic device for display thereby;
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- an authority linking unit configured to, when being accessed by another electronic device after said another electronic device scans the bar code and said another registered account corresponding to said another one of the pieces of account data has logged in to said central management device via said another electronic device, link the piece of user authority data with said another one of the pieces of account data, and
- an account management module configured to send said another one of the pieces of account data and the piece of user authority data to said one of said gateway devices for storage therein.
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