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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 11, 2006
Paul Henry Fuoss, Convent Station, NJ (US);
Howard Paul Katseff, Marlboro, NJ (US);
Bethany Scott Robinson, Lebanon, NJ (US);
Paul Henry Fuoss, Convent Station, NJ (US);
Howard Paul Katseff, Marlboro, NJ (US);
Bethany Scott Robinson, Lebanon, NJ (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
A personal communications device may be placed in, or removed from, a docking station. In response, a predetermined command may be selected from a plurality of predetermined commands and transmitted from the docking station to at least one of a plurality of network devices. Each predetermined command may include the address of the network device and may be configured to cause the network device to respond. In this way, a user's communication infrastructure may be reconfigured in a simple and intuitive manner.