System and method for controlling a remote environmental control unit
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IPC분류정보
국가/구분
United States(US) Patent
등록
국제특허분류(IPC7판)
G08B-001/08
G08B-001/00
G08B-025/00
G05B-023/02
G09G-005/00
출원번호
US-0379778
(2006-04-21)
등록번호
US-7436296
(2008-10-14)
발명자
/ 주소
Rourke,Michael C.
Rumsey,James K.
출원인 / 주소
Quartet Technology, Inc
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초록▼
An administration tool program generates a user interface displaying selectable living environment devices, each corresponding to a type of living environment device that can be controlled by a user through a remotely located ECU (environmental control unit). The user interface displays a representa
An administration tool program generates a user interface displaying selectable living environment devices, each corresponding to a type of living environment device that can be controlled by a user through a remotely located ECU (environmental control unit). The user interface displays a representation of a current configuration of the remotely located ECU, and enables the administrator user to move the selectable living environment device representations into the current configuration representation for the remotely located ECU, for example by dragging and dropping the living environment device representations using a mouse user interface device coupled to a computer system on which the administration tool is executing. The administration tool sends command messages over a computer network to the ECU that indicate that the ECU should perform at least one operation to allow a user to control a living environment device of the type corresponding to the living environment device representation moved into said representation of the current configuration of the ECU.
대표청구항▼
The invention claimed is: 1. A system for managing a remotely located environmental control unit, comprising: administration tool program code stored in a computer readable medium, wherein said administration tool program code is operable to generate a user interface displaying a list of selectable
The invention claimed is: 1. A system for managing a remotely located environmental control unit, comprising: administration tool program code stored in a computer readable medium, wherein said administration tool program code is operable to generate a user interface displaying a list of selectable living environment device representations, wherein each of said selectable living environment device representations corresponds to a type of living environment device that can be controlled through said remotely located environmental control unit, and wherein said user interface further displays a representation of a current configuration of said remotely located environmental control unit, and wherein said user interface enables a user to move said selectable living environment device representations into said representation of said current configuration of said remotely located environmental control unit; and wherein said administration tool program code is further operable, in response to detecting said user moving one of said selectable living environment device representations into said representation of said current configuration of said remotely located environmental control unit, to send a command message over a computer network to said remotely located environmental control unit, said command message indicating that said remotely located environmental control unit should perform at least one operation to allow a user to control a living environment device of said type corresponding to said one of said living environment device representations moved into said representation of said current configuration of said remotely located environmental control unit. 2. The system of claim 1, wherein said user interface enables said user to move said selectable living environment device representations into said representation of said current configuration of said remotely located environmental control unit by enabling said user to click on said selectable living environment device representations and move said selectable living environment device representations into said representation of said current configuration of said remotely located environmental control unit by dragging said selectable living environment device representations over said representation of said current configuration of said remotely located environmental control unit. 3. The system of claim 1, wherein said administration tool program code is further operable to generate a user interface that enables said user to indicate at least one living environment device characteristic associated with said living environment device of said type corresponding to said one of said living environment device representations moved into said representation of said current configuration of said remotely located environmental control unit. 4. The system of claim 3, wherein said at least one living environment device characteristic comprises a control source definition associated with said living environment device. 5. The system of claim 4, wherein said control source definition comprises a control source identifier and at least one address of said living environment device within a communication network to which said living environment device is communicably connected. 6. The system of claim 4, wherein said control source definition comprises a control source identifier and an interface to said remotely located environmental control unit to which said living environment device is communicably connected. 7. The system of claim 3, wherein said at least one living environment device characteristic comprises a number of digits used in a command to be sent from remotely located environmental control unit to said living environment device. 8. The system of claim 4, wherein said at least one living environment device characteristic further comprises an identifying name of said living environment device. 9. The system of claim 8, wherein said at least one operation comprises associating said control source definition and said identifying name of said living environment device. 10. The system of claim 3 wherein said administration tool program code is further operable to generate a user interface that enables said user to indicate at least one user characteristic associated with said living environment device of said type corresponding to said one of said living environment device representations moved into said representation of said current configuration of said remotely located environmental control unit. 11. The system of claim 10, wherein said user characteristic comprises at least one recorded audio name associated with a corresponding feature of said living environment device. 12. The system of claim 10 wherein said user characteristic comprises an order in which a plurality of indications of user selectable features associated with said living environment device are output by said remotely located environmental control unit such that said user can indicate one of said plurality of selectable features to be selected after a corresponding one of said indications of said plurality of selectable features is output by said remotely located environmental control unit. 13. The system of claim 12, wherein said indications of user selectable features are audio names associated with corresponding ones of said user selectable features. 14. The system of claim 1, wherein said administration tool program code is further operable to generate a user interface that enables said user to indicate at least one user characteristic comprising a feedback setting indicating how said remotely located environmental control unit provides feedback to said user. 15. The system of claim 14, wherein said feedback setting comprises an echo mode setting indicating how said remotely located environmental control unit should respond to receipt of a valid command from said user. 16. The system of claim 14, wherein said feedback setting comprises an indication of how said remotely located environmental control unit should respond to an unrecognized voice command. 17. The system of claim 14, wherein said feedback setting comprises a number of command recognition errors after which said remotely located environmental unit should exit a current menu level. 18. The system of claim 14, wherein said feedback setting comprises a menu speed at which menu items are to be output by said remotely located environmental control unit to said user. 19. The system of claim 14, wherein said feedback setting comprises a switch speed indicating a time period after a signal from a user interface switch device is received during which subsequent signals from said user interface switch device are to be ignored. 20. The system of claim 14, wherein said feedback setting comprises an indication of whether said environmental control unit should consider a user interface switch device to be activated in the event that said user makes a connection using said user interface switch device, or in the event that said user breaks a connection using said user interface switch device. 21. A method of managing a remotely located environmental control unit, comprising: generating a user interface displaying a list of selectable living environment device representations, wherein each of said selectable living environment device representations corresponds to a type of living environment device that can be controlled through said remotely located environmental control unit, and wherein said user interface further displays a representation of a current configuration of said remotely located environmental control unit, and wherein said user interface enables a user to move said selectable living environment device representations into said representation of said current configuration of said remotely located environmental control unit; and sending, in response to detecting said user moving one of said selectable living environment device representations into said representation of said current configuration of said remotely located environmental control unit, a command message over a computer network to said remotely located environmental control unit, said command message indicating that said remotely located environmental control unit should perform at least one operation to allow a user to control a living environment device of said type corresponding to said one of said living environment device representations moved into said representation of said current configuration of said remotely located environmental control unit. 22. A system for managing a remotely located environmental control unit, comprising: means for generating a user interface displaying a list of selectable living environment device representations, wherein each of said selectable living environment device representations corresponds to a type of living environment device that can be controlled through said remotely located environmental control unit, and wherein said user interface further displays a representation of a current configuration of said remotely located environmental control unit, and wherein said user interface enables a user to move said selectable living environment device representations into said representation of said current configuration of said remotely located environmental control unit; and means for sending, in response to detecting said user moving one of said selectable living environment device representations into said representation of said current configuration of said remotely located environmental control unit, a command message over a computer network to said remotely located environmental control unit, said command message indicating that said remotely located environmental control unit should perform at least one operation to allow a user to control a living environment device of said type corresponding to said one of said living environment device representations moved into said representation of said current configuration of said remotely located environmental control unit.
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