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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 27, 2018
Tti (Macao Commercial Offshore) Limited, Macau, MO;
William McNabb, Anderson, SC (US);
Mark Huggins, Anderson, SC (US);
J. Porter Whitmire, Greenville, SC (US);
TTI (MACAO COMMERCIAL OFFSHORE) LIMITED, Macau, MO;
Abstract
A modular garage door opener system has an accessory device including a load, and garage door opener including an accessory port for receiving the accessory device. A server receives initial accessory device status and settings data from the garage door opener, stores the data as associated with the accessory port, and sends the data to a peripheral device. The server receives new accessory device status data and sends it to the peripheral device. New settings data is sent by the peripheral device to the server and the server sends it to the garage door opener such that the load of the accessory device is controlled based on the new settings data. Similarly, initial data may be stored and associated with a second accessory port for a second accessory device and a load of the second accessory device is controlled based on new settings data from received from the peripheral device.