Control device and method in a system of household appliances

Details Control device and method in a system of household appliances Control device and method in a system of household appliances

2005-07-19

2005-07-19

Horabik, Michael (Department: 2635)

Communications: electrical

Selective

Intelligence comparison for controlling

C340S010600, C715S733000

Reexamination Certificate

active

06919792

ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus for controlling a plurality of appliances in a home network, in which each appliance in the network has an associated descriptor comprising information for controlling the appliance. A control device for controlling the plurality of appliances includes a microprocessor for loading and processing descriptors associated with the appliances and a graphics generator for generating a display of markup language pages or page parts based on the descriptor information. The control device uses descriptors of a plurality of appliances to aggregate appliance control functions of the same type for a plurality of appliances in order to display aggregated functions on a single page.

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