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AssigneeKoninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
InventorJohn Bell
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A wireless communication system includes a number of controllable electronic devices and a mobile station for communication with one of the controllable electronic devices through a short-range wireless communication link, when in-range with the one controllable electronic device. The mobile station includes a display screen and a browser. The mobile station and the one controllable electronic device form a client-server pair. Through the short-range wireless communication link, the client requests the server to download a control interface stored at the server. Upon downloading, a browser is used to navigate through control menu pages included in the control interface, and to post control parameter settings to the server. In the server, a program runs to interpret received control parameter settings, to invoke a control action in accordance with the received control parameter settings, and to instruct the client what to do next.
In a wireless communication system comprising a plurality of controllable electronic devices and a mobile station for communicating with one of said controllable electronic devices through a short-range wireless communication link, said mobile station comprising a display screen, a user input interface, and an access protocol browser operating in accordance with an access protocol, a method of remotely controlling said one controllable electronic device wherein prior to said requesting, checking whether said one controllable electronic device has access protocol capability, said method comprising:
A wireless communication system comprising:
A mobile station for remotely controlling, through a short-range communication link, of one of a plurality of controllable electronic devices comprised in a wireless communication system that comprises said mobile station, said plurality of controllable electronic devices comprising control interfaces configured to control said controllable electronic devices, and means for downloading data representative of a control interface corresponding to one of said controllable electronic devices, said mobile station comprising:
A controllable electronic device, that, through a short-range communication link, is remotely controllable by a mobile station with an access protocol browser operating in accordance with an access protocol, said controllable electronic device comprising:
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