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System and method for using image data in connection with configuring a universal controlling device

  • US 9,762,647 B2
  • Filed: 04/01/2015
  • Issued: 09/12/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/19/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system device, comprising:

  • a portable device having a memory device, a plurality of user input elements, a display device, a transmission device, and a processing device in communication with each of the memory device, the plurality of user input elements, the display device, and the transmission device; and

    a server device in communication with the portable device via a network, the server device having an associated data repository in which a plurality of images are each cross-referenced to one or more of a plurality of command code sets for use in connection with one or more controllable appliances;

    wherein the memory device of the portable device has instructions, executable by the processing device, for causing the portable device to display in the display device an image representative of an intended target device, for causing the image displayed in the display device to be provided to the server device, for receiving from the server device data indicative of a one or more of the plurality of command code sets which have been cross-referenced within the data repository to an image discerned to be a match for the image caused to be provided to the server device, and for using the data indicative of the one or more of the plurality of command code sets to provide for the portable device to be provisioned with at least one of the one or more of the plurality of command code sets whereupon a user interaction with a one or more of the plurality of user input elements will cause the portable device to issue one or more commands using the provisioned at least one of the one or more of the command code sets via the transmission device to control one or more functional operations of the intended target controllable device.

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