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A control system comprises multiple consumer electronics devices and task-driven control means coupled to the devices for controlling an interaction among the devices. The control means acts on respective software representations of each respective one of the consumer devices. By encapsulating the v

A control system comprises multiple consumer electronics devices and task-driven control means coupled to the devices for controlling an interaction among the devices. The control means acts on respective software representations of each respective one of the consumer devices. By encapsulating the variable complexity of the task within a software representation, it can be made as simple or as sophisticated as needed to bring the capabilities up to a common level. Since the level of interface is common to the devices, applications can uniformly manipulate devices which embody very different levels of sophistication.

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[ We claim:] [1.] A consumer electronics system, comprising:(a) a plurality of consumer electronics devices; and(b) a task-driven control means interconnecting the consumer electronics devices for controlling interaction among the consumer electronics devices,(c) the control means storing software r

[ We claim:] [1.] A consumer electronics system, comprising:(a) a plurality of consumer electronics devices; and(b) a task-driven control means interconnecting the consumer electronics devices for controlling interaction among the consumer electronics devices,(c) the control means storing software representations of the interconnected consumer electronics devices and communicating with the consumer electronics devices via their respective stored software representations, and(d) at least one of the consumer electronics devices storing its own software representation within itself and downloading its own software representation to the control means for storage in the control means automatically without consumer interaction when first being interconnected to the control means.