System for programming a network of control points

• US 20090109052A1
• Filed: 10/25/2007
• Published: 04/30/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/25/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Inteltech Corporation
• Original Assignee: Inteltech Corporation
• Inventors: Soderman, Daryl, Stepps, Dale B.
• Application Number:
  US11/977,672
• Publication Number:
  US 20090109052A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/825.220
• CPC Class Codes: H03K 17/96 Touch switches specially adapted for electronic time-pieces with no moving parts G04G21/08
• CPC Class Codes: H03K 2217/94094 Wired transmission, e.g. via bus connection or similar

Abstract

A system and method for variably programming a plurality of utilitarian devices such as, but not limited to, LED light assemblies, motions detectors, etc. which may be associated with each of a plurality of control points. The control points are electrically interconnected to one another and to a power source to define a network, wherein an identifying code is assigned to each of the control points. One or more control facilities in the form of touch pads are cooperatively structured with a master control for programmed operations of separate predetermined numbers or arrays of said plurality of control points and the one or more utilitarian devices associated with each control point.

Claims

1. A system for variably programming a plurality of utilitarian devices, said system comprising:

a plurality of control points electrically interconnected to one another and to a power source into a variably operative network,

each of said control points including an identifying code and being operatively associated with at least a first utilitarian device,

at least one control facility connected to said network and including a plurality of control members,

individual ones of said control members structured for programmed operation of separate predetermined numbers of said plurality of control points,

a master control assembly operatively associated with said network and said one control facility and including recognition capabilities for said identifying codes, and

said master control assembly further structured to prohibit inclusion of control points being programmed for operation by more than one of said control members.

2. A system as recited in claim 1 wherein said programmed operation of separate predetermined numbers of said plurality of control points comprise sequentially accessing said identifying codes.

3. A system as recited in claim 2 wherein said master control is structured to recognize identifying codes of already programmed control points and prohibit additional programming of control points having a recognized identifying code.

4. A system as recited in claim 1 wherein said first utilitarian device comprises an LED light assembly.

5. A system as recited in claim 1 wherein each of said control points is operatively associated with said first utilitarian device and a second utilitarian device.

6. A system as recited in claim 5 wherein said control facility and said master control assembly are cooperatively structured to define a first programming mode and a second programming mode.

7. A system as recited in claim 6 wherein said first and second programming modes are respectively operative for selective programming of said first utilitarian device and said second utilitarian device associated with each of said plurality of control points.

8. A system as recited in claim 1 wherein said plurality of control members are manipulated in a predetermined sequence to define which of said plurality of control points are operatively programmed with different ones of said control members.

9. A system as recited in claim 8 wherein said control facility comprises a touch pad including said plurality of control members.

10. A system as recited in claim 9 further comprising a plurality of control facilities each comprising a touch pad, each of said touch pads comprising a plurality of diverse control members collectively structured for programmed operation of separate predetermined numbers of said plurality of control points.