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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 10, 2021
Intex Marketing Ltd., Tortola, VG;
Zhi Xiong Huang, Fujian, CN;
Ying Biao Zhang, Fujian, CN;
Intex Marketing Ltd., Tortola, VG;
Abstract
A method for controlling the appointment of functions of smart home appliances that only when the user control interface completes the appointment setting, the mobile terminal sends the appointment control instruction to the controlled smart home appliance is provided. The mobile terminal does not send the appointment control instruction to the controlled smart home appliance until the next time the user updates the appointment setting, the mobile terminal sends the appointment control instruction to the controlled smart home appliance again to update the appointment control of controlled smart home appliances, the controlled smart home appliance receives the appointment control instruction sent by the mobile terminal, uses the function activation counter and the function duration counter of the microcontroller to count down respectively, and cooperates with the cyclic shift of the N work flag bits used to indicate whether the function is activated or not to realize the cycle control of the function, the microcontroller does not need to be configured with a clock module, which not only reduces the cost, but also does not need to calibrate the clock regularly, which improves the accuracy of the appointment control.
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