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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 2008
Filed:
Oct. 07, 2004
Andrew James Wild, Van Nuys, CA (US);
Robert Charles Boyer, Cupertino, CA (US);
Martin Kloiber, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Steven H Milne, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Andrew James Wild, Van Nuys, CA (US);
Robert Charles Boyer, Cupertino, CA (US);
Martin Kloiber, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Steven H Milne, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Euphonix, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A control surface has one or more soft devices for which functionality may be assigned, a central processing unit (CPU), including operating code, for managing at least functionality of the soft devices on the control surface, and a network connection for connecting to one or more computerized appliances. The control code assigns individual ones of the one or more soft devices to specific functions of an individual one of the one or more computerized appliances. There may be a variety of different kinds of soft devices, and the functionality for the soft devices of the control surface may be determined by which application is frontmost on one of the computerized appliances.