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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2023
Filed:
Jul. 12, 2021
Method of adapting a user interface on a mobile communication device based on different environments
T-mobile Innovations Llc, Overland Park, KS (US);
Lyle T. Bertz, Lee's Summit, MO (US);
Galip Murat Karabulut, Vienna, VA (US);
Joao Teixeira, Shawnee, KS (US);
Sprint Communications Company, L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);
Abstract
A method of providing a user interface on a mobile communication device to control smart devices in an environment. The method comprises discovering a plurality of smart devices in an environment by a client application executing on a mobile communication device by initiating wireless communication between the mobile communication device and the plurality of smart devices, wherein the client application learns an electronic model identity of each of the discovered smart devices, communicating with a data store by the client application to look-up control interfaces of the discovered smart devices based on the electronic model identities of the smart devices, looking-up predefined environmental preferences associated with the mobile communication device in the data store by the client application, transmitting control commands by the client application to the plurality of smart devices based in part on the looked-up predefined environmental preferences.