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Access, monitoring, and control of appliances via a media processing system

  • US 8,063,772 B2
  • Filed: 03/02/2010
  • Issued: 11/22/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/11/2002
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system supporting at least access and control of at least one home appliance at a first location from a remote second location, the system comprising:

  • one or more circuits operably arranged to communicate over a wired or wireless local area network, the one or more circuits operable to, at least;

    identify at least one home appliance communicatively coupled to the one or more circuits;

    verify authorization for passage of one or more commands, said one or more commands received at the first location via a wired or wireless wide area network from the second location, to the at least one home appliance; and

    enable passage of the received one or more commands to the least one home appliance at the first location, to allow at least access and control of the at least one home appliance.

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