Patent ID: 9437106
Filing Date: 2016-09-06
CPC Classification: G08C

Claim Text:
1. A method for updating a control device configured to control a plurality of appliances in a coordinated manner for different activities, comprising: detecting a first starting of a first activity of the different activities; tracking the state of one or more appliances involved in the first activity; detecting a first ending of the first activity; analyzing state data for the one or more appliances obtained at least partially between the first starting and the first ending; at least one of generating, or updating, an end-state data associated with the first activity for the one or more appliances based on the analysis of the state data; detecting a second starting of the first activity; accessing the end-state data associated with the first activity; and modifying a state of the one or more appliances based on the second starting of the first activity and the end-state data.