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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 01, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 01, 2013
Panasonic Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Toshihisa Nakano, Osaka, JP;
Masayuki Kozuka, Osaka, JP;
Masataka Minami, Hyogo, JP;
Motoji Ohmori, Osaka, JP;
Takeshi Matsuo, Nara, JP;
Tsuyoshi Sakata, Osaka, JP;
Fumiaki Suzuki, Osaka, JP;
Masao Nonaka, Osaka, JP;
Ryota Miyazaki, Osaka, JP;
Kazuo Kajimoto, Osaka, JP;
Yoshiyuki Miyabe, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A user-friendly cooperative process execution method for causing household electric devices that are registered to a server to execute cooperative processes. The server stores correspondence information associating a particular operation to be executed by a particular household electric device with one or more groups each composed of one or more household electric devices, and indicating, for each of the household electric devices in each of the groups, a control signal to be transmitted to the household electric device. The method includes: detecting whether or not the particular operation is executed; selecting one of the groups that is composed of one or more household electric devices that are registered to the server by referring to the correspondence information when the execution of the particular operation is detected; and transmitting the control signal to each of the household electric devices in the selected group.