SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SAVING AND RECALLING STATE DATA FOR MEDIA AND HOME APPLIANCES
First Claim
1. A method for saving state data with a control event in a media control system located in an environment, the method comprising:
- receiving into a hand-held, portable controlling device input for programming a macro command sequence;
storing in a memory of the hand-held, portable controlling device data related to at least one of a state of an appliance and a state of an environment in which the appliance is located at a time that the input was received; and
in response to the hand-held, portable controlling device being thereafter instructed to execute the programmed macro command sequence, causing the hand-held, portable controlling device to both execute the programmed macro command sequence and transmit one or more command communications to thereby bring about in the at least one of the appliance and the environment in which the appliance is located the state the at least one of the appliance and the environment in which the appliance is located was in at the time that input was received wherein the one or more command communications transmitted by the hand-held, portable controlling device are determined as a function of the data related to at least one of a state of an appliance and a state of an environment in which the appliance is located at a time that the input was received as stored in the memory of the hand-held, portable controlling device.
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Abstract
A set of media playback and device settings data from each home appliance of a first set of home appliances is stored on a central server and/or sent to a remote control device upon initiation of a suspend command by a user. The stored media and devices states may be used at a later time to control the first set of home appliances, or a user may, after relocating to a second set of home appliances, initiate a resume state command whereupon media playback and device settings data from the central server and/or remote control device controls each home appliance in the second set of home appliances to bring about the same or substantially similar media and device states as in the first set of home appliances.
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12 Claims
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1. A method for saving state data with a control event in a media control system located in an environment, the method comprising:
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receiving into a hand-held, portable controlling device input for programming a macro command sequence; storing in a memory of the hand-held, portable controlling device data related to at least one of a state of an appliance and a state of an environment in which the appliance is located at a time that the input was received; and in response to the hand-held, portable controlling device being thereafter instructed to execute the programmed macro command sequence, causing the hand-held, portable controlling device to both execute the programmed macro command sequence and transmit one or more command communications to thereby bring about in the at least one of the appliance and the environment in which the appliance is located the state the at least one of the appliance and the environment in which the appliance is located was in at the time that input was received wherein the one or more command communications transmitted by the hand-held, portable controlling device are determined as a function of the data related to at least one of a state of an appliance and a state of an environment in which the appliance is located at a time that the input was received as stored in the memory of the hand-held, portable controlling device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A computer-readable media embodied in a non-transient, physical memory device having stored thereon instructions for saving state data with a control event in a hand-held, portable controlling device of a media control system located in an environment, the instructions performing steps, comprising:
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receiving into the hand-held, portable controlling device input for programming a macro command sequence; storing in a memory of the hand-held, portable controlling device data related to at least one of a state of an appliance and a state of an environment in which the appliance is located at a time that the input was received; and in response to the hand-held, portable controlling device being thereafter instructed to execute the programmed macro command sequence, causing the hand-held, portable controlling device to both execute the programmed macro command sequence and transmit one or more command communications to thereby bring about in the at least one of the appliance and the environment in which the appliance is located the state the at least one of the appliance and the environment in which the appliance is located was in at the time that input was received wherein the one or more command communications transmitted by the hand-held, portable controlling device are determined as a function of the data related to at least one of a state of an appliance and a state of an environment in which the appliance is located at a time that the input was received as stored in the memory of the hand-held, portable controlling device. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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