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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2018
Filed:
Nov. 06, 2015
Venstar, Inc., Chatsworth, CA (US);
Steven David Dushane, Granada Hills, CA (US);
Mustafa Oransel, West Hills, CA (US);
Venstar, Inc., Chatsworth, CA (US);
Abstract
The pending disclosure describes embodiments of systems, devices and methods of controlling lighting and appliances on a customer premises based on configuration rules. Such embodiments include responsive to the receipt of at least one configuration instruction, one or more participant zone(s) is selected from a plurality of zones that designate predefined sections of at least one customer premise based upon the received configuration instruction and a plurality of stored output control configuration rules of the plurality of zones. For the selected participant zone(s), one or more output configuration is generated and outputted based upon the selected participant zone(s), the received configuration instruction, and the stored output control configuration rules of the selected participant zone.