Patent ID: 11953869
Assignee: nan
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. An apparatus, comprising:
a user interface comprising a touch keypad arranged to receive user input and to exercise control over one or more remotely controlled appliances based on the user input, the touch keypad having a preselected fixed layout and preselected capabilities out of multiple possible layouts and multiple possible capabilities of a configurable hardware infrastructure of the touch keypad,
the configurable hardware infrastructure comprising a plurality of electrical components and/or mechanical components in a predefined arrangement, that are configured once by employing one or more of the plurality of electrical components and/or mechanical components for use and rendering one or more others of the plurality of electrical components and/or mechanical components inoperative, thereby providing for multiple touch keypad options without exchanging hardware components, based on the plurality of electrical components and/or mechanical components, wherein a configuration of the hardware infrastructure is fixed after a one-time configuration; and
a communications board communicatively coupled to the hardware infrastructure and arranged to communicate one or more control signals to a remote control component or to the one or more remotely controlled appliances based on the user input and the one or more control communications.