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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 19, 2007
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2003
Michael Sprauve, San Jose, CA (US);
Manish Thakur, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Ravi Verma, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Brent Bilger, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Michael Sprauve, San Jose, CA (US);
Manish Thakur, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Ravi Verma, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Brent Bilger, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Home Director, Inc., Campbell, CA (US);
Abstract
An entertainment system and method including controllable components dispersed among a plurality of locations and each having attributes associated therewith, a plurality of interconnections between the controllable components, a plurality of user interface devices, and a controller that generates graphical user interfaces for the user interface devices for controlling the plurality of controllable components. The graphical user interfaces include commands for operating the controllable components that vary among the graphical user interfaces based on the locations of the user interface devices, and the controllable component attributes, locations and interconnections. The controller also automatically creates schematic diagrams, lists, views and test plans for the controlled components and/or the interconnections therebetween based upon the identification of the controlled components, and their attributes, locations and interconnections, to the controller.