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Context-Dependent Home Automation Controller and Docking Station

  • US 20140075075A1
  • Filed: 09/11/2012
  • Published: 03/13/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/11/2012
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A computer-implemented system comprising:

  • a dock detector on a mobile computing device arranged to identify a type of docking station to which the mobile computing device has been physically coupled, the identified type of docking station selected from a plurality of different possible docking station types, including a docking station type that is associated with a light switch;

    a repository of electronically stored user interface profiles that specify different schemes for presentations of information with the mobile computing device, each user interface profile corresponding to a type of docking station from the plurality of types of docking stations; and

    a user interface selector that is programmed to select, in response to the dock detector determining that the mobile computing device has been mounted to a docking station of a type that is associated with a light switch, a first user interface profile from the repository that causes the mobile computing device to be responsive to input to alter an illumination state of a lighting element associated with the light switch.

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