Customized method and apparatus for controlling electric appliance
AssigneeZte Corporation
InventorAn Liu
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for controlling an electric appliance in a personalized way are disclosed, which relates to the technical field of communications and is used to solve problem of poor user experience of various appliances in a home or office environment in the existing technology. The method includes: detecting whether a wireless signal carrying SIM card information exists in a preset range; in a case that the wireless signal carrying the SIM card information exists, determining a user identity of an SIM card according to the SIM card information; and correspondingly controlling the electric appliance according to the user identity.
Claims9
A method for controlling an electric appliance in a personalized way, comprising:
- detecting whether a wireless signal carrying Subscriber Identity Module, SIM, card information exists in a preset range;
- in a case that the wireless signal carrying the SIM card information exists, determining a user identity of an SIM card according to the SIM card information;
- and
- controlling an electric appliance according to the determined user identity;
- wherein, the step of correspondingly controlling the electric appliance according to the determined user identity comprises:
- determining whether the user identity corresponding to the SIM card has been stored in a local user registration form;
- in a case that the user identity corresponding to the SIM card has been stored in the local user registration form, looking up an electric appliance setting requirement corresponding to the user identity in the user registration form;
- and
- controlling a corresponding electric appliance according to the electric appliance setting requirement.
An apparatus for controlling an electric appliance in a personalized way, comprising hardware performing instructions stored in a non-transitory computer readable medium which executes steps in following units:
- a detection unit, arranged to detect whether a wireless signal carrying subscriber identity module, SIM, card information exists in a preset range;
- a determination unit, arranged to, in a case that the wireless signal carrying the SIM card information exists, determine a user identity of an SIM card according to the SIM card information;
- and
- a control unit, arranged to control an electric appliance according to the user identity;
- wherein, the control unit is arranged to:
- determine whether the user identity corresponding to the SIM card has been stored in a local user registration form;
- in a case that the user identity corresponding to the SIM card has been stored in the local user registration form, look up an electric appliance setting requirement corresponding to the user identity in the user registration form;
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- control a corresponding electric appliance according to the electric appliance setting requirement.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.