System and method for adaptive programming of a remote control

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9207652-B2
Application number	US-201313926258-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 25, 2013
Priority date	Apr 20, 2005
Publication date	Dec 8, 2015
Grant date	Dec 8, 2015

Abstract

A method and system for adaptively configuring a remote control includes analyzing a log of events, maintained by the remote control, which indicate how the remote control and the devices it controls are used by a user. Once the analysis is performed, the system and method can suggest alternative configurations of the remote control to the user. The range and type of alternative configurations is not particularly limited and can include changing which devices are employed for various user activities and/or how those activities are performed, the placement and hierarchy of commands in a menu tree and/or troubleshooting and set up configurations. The analysis can be performed either partially or totally within the remote control, or at, or in conjunction with, a service to which the remote control connects through a network.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system comprising:
a user device including a touch screen, a processor and a communications module, wherein the processor is configured to present selectable commands to a user on the touchscreen based on a configuration data set stored in the user device, and to log and store user initiated events and contextual information related to user selection of the commands;
an analysis module operable to analyze the log of events and contextual information sto…

Assignees

• Logitech Europ Sa

Inventors

• Liu Godwin
• Rigley Mark
• Wheeler Stephen
• Henry Justin M
• Harris Glen Mclean

Classifications

• H04N2005/4444

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G05B13/0205 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G08C17/02 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04N2005/4435

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G08C2201/20

  Physics · mapped topic