Wayne Scott

TL;DR: In this paper, a hand-held electronic device having a remote control application user interface that functions to display operational mode information to a user is presented, for example, to control appliances for one or more users, to perform activities, and to access favorites.

TL;DR: In this article, a number of user interface methods are described and may be used alone or in combination with one another to present an enhanced interface to a user, such as gesture based input, gesture based gesture pad, and interactive graphic search query interface.

TL;DR: A home control and automation system and method is defined in this paper, which includes one or more wireless remote controls, a plurality of appliances (including network enabled appliances and traditional legacy appliances in the exemplary system), associated control centric devices, and associated content-centric devices.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose to use location definitions associated with the received unique ID to recall saved devices states, commands sets, macros and even to dynamically generate commands based on the location information.

TL;DR: In this article, a set of media playback and device settings data from each home appliance of a first set of home appliances is stored on a central server and/or sent to a remote control device upon initiation of a suspend command by a user.