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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2013

Filed:

Aug. 09, 2005
Applicants:

Anugeetha Kunjithapatham, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Mithun Sheshagiri, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Alan Messer, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Inventors:

Anugeetha Kunjithapatham, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Mithun Sheshagiri, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Alan Messer, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/46 (2006.01); H04N 7/18 (2006.01); G08B 5/22 (2006.01); G08B 25/00 (2006.01); G05B 11/01 (2006.01); G08C 19/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method and system that facilitates prioritization of tasks available through the devices in a home network. The tasks are user level descriptions of the high-level actions a user and underlying devices can perform. By prioritizing tasks for a user, the present invention aims to minimize the effort required to compare and comprehend the usefulness and feasibility of tasks. In doing so, the number of tasks possible to a user can be reduced and the highest priority task for a given user and device can be used by the application software as the suggested 'most likely' task for the user.


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