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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 14, 2007
Andrew David Wilson, Seattle, WA (US);
James E. Allard, Seattle, WA (US);
Michael H. Cohen, Seattle, WA (US);
Steven Drucker, Bellevue, WA (US);
Yu-ting Kuo, Sammamish, WA (US);
Andrew David Wilson, Seattle, WA (US);
James E. Allard, Seattle, WA (US);
Michael H. Cohen, Seattle, WA (US);
Steven Drucker, Bellevue, WA (US);
Yu-Ting Kuo, Sammamish, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The claimed subject matter relates to an architecture that can facilitate rich interaction with and/or management of environmental components included in an environment. The architecture can exist in whole or in part in a housing that can resemble a wand or similar object. The architecture can utilize one or more sensor from a collection of sensors to determine an orientation or gesture in connection with the wand, and can further issue an instruction to update a state of an environmental component based upon the orientation. In addition, the architecture can include an advisor component to provide contextual and/or comprehensive guidance in an intuitive manner.