Sure Universal Ltd.

Ofer Rotschield

Viktor Ariel

Vadim Lanzman

Max Kholmyansky

Nadav Nachshon

Baraa Hleihil

Maria Berezansky

A system for controlling IoT devices in a premises includes at least one mobile universal remote controller (MURC) implemented on a mobile device to receive user instructions to at least one of the IoT devices, a gateway and an IoT device server. The gateway is implemented in a unit having a connection to a data network and having multiple communication units connected therein. The gateway has agents, one per type of communication protocol, to communicate with the IoT devices each according to its associated communication protocol. The IoT device server is connected to the data network and is in communication with the MURC and the gateway. The server passes commands related to the user instructions from the MURC to the gateway to the unit to communicate the commands to the at least one IoT device using associated communication protocols for the at least one IoT device.

Set-top box gateway architecture for universal remote controller

A method includes implementing a single GUI for all the appliances which includes a set of input panels, an appliance selector panel and an output panel, communicating with the appliances with a multiplicity of agents, each implementing one appliance protocol of communication and converting between an internal format and the appliance protocol of communication; controlling activity of the agents, receiving a user command to a selected appliance issued from one of the input panels and generating at least one associated internal command in response to the user commands, providing the at least one associated internal command to the controlling for instruction to one of the agents associated with the selected appliance, storing information about each appliance to be controlled by the remote controller, and receiving notifications from the agents about the state of at least one of the appliances and providing the notifications to be displayed on the GUI.

Architecture for remote control of IOT (internet of things) devices

A mobile device, which has internet connectivity and several input/output devices, includes a mobile universal remote controller (MURC) and an appliance lifecycle module. The MURC controls several appliances of different types from different vendors and the lifecycle module provides connectivity between a user of the mobile device and one of several appliance-lifecycle service providers through the input/output devices. An appliance lifecycle management server includes several appliance lifecycle databases, an access controller, and a plurality of flow handlers. The databases receive and store lifecycle information about appliances controlled by the MURCs. The access controller assigns roles and access permissions to the MURC and to server providers that access the server. The flow handlers provide a subset of the information according to the assigned roles and permissions to the MURCs and server providers and include enabling access of a selected service provider to temporarily control one of the appliances via the MURC.

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