Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Apparatus and method pertaining to the use of wireless signals to control an appliance
- Patent Title (中): 关于使用无线信号来控制器具的装置和方法
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Application No.: US13291700Application Date: 2011-11-08
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Publication No.: US09396648B2Publication Date: 2016-07-19
- Inventor: James Joseph Fitzgibbon
- Applicant: James Joseph Fitzgibbon
- Applicant Address: US IL Elmhurst
- Assignee: The Chamberlain Group, Inc.
- Current Assignee: The Chamberlain Group, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US IL Elmhurst
- Agency: Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery LLP
- Main IPC: H04B7/00
- IPC: H04B7/00 ; G08C17/02 ; H04W8/00

Abstract:
An appliance wirelessly receives any of a plurality of different signals that comprise control instructions from a transmitter for a second appliance other than the appliance and of a different class of appliance. The appliance then provides, in the absence of learning, any of a plurality of different control instructions to be used by the appliance as a function of that received signal. By one approach those wirelessly-received control instructions relate to controllable functions for the second appliance. Pursuant to these teachings, the receiving appliance effectively converts a received control instruction that relates to one kind of functionality for a given kind of appliance into a control instruction that relates to a different kind of functionality and that is usable by a different kind of appliance.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130114188A1 Apparatus and Method Pertaining to the Use of Wireless Signals to Control an Appliance Public/Granted day:2013-05-09
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