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System and methods for home appliance identification and control in a networked environment

  • US 7,155,305 B2
  • Filed: 01/31/2005
  • Issued: 12/26/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/04/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for setting up a system device to command operations of an appliance, the method comprising:

  • reading from an RFID tag associated with the appliance an identifying characteristic of the appliance; and

    disseminating the identifying characteristic of the appliance read from the RFID tag to at least one command centric device in a network, wherein the command centric device uses the identifying characteristic of the appliance read from the RFID tag to access data stored in an existing device database to configure itself to transmit commands for controlling operations of the appliance with the data being otherwise incapable of being communicated from the appliance itself to the network.

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