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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 30, 2004
Filed:
Jul. 12, 2001
Wolfgang Daum, Erie, PA (US);
John Steven Holmes, Sellersburg, IN (US);
William Hull Bicknell, Louisville, KY (US);
Scott Alan Horning, Louisville, KY (US);
Tanveer Iqbal, Louisville, KY (US);
John Kenneth Hooker, Louisville, KY (US);
Robert Marten Bultman, Smithfield, KY (US);
Ziqiang Hu, Prospect, KY (US);
Scott Charles Evans, Burnt Hills, NY (US);
John Erik Hershey, Ballston Lake, NY (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
Appliances ( and ) are controlled by providing a source ( ) of command fields (CMD, FIG. ) that include a context subfield (Community, FIG. ) defining operating modes and a command subfield (Command, FIG. ) defining operations to be performed within the context subfield. A network ( ) transmits the command fields between the source and the appliance. A controller ( ) processes the command fields so that an operation defined by one of the command subfields is performed.