Patent ID: 9435560
Filing Date: 2016-09-06
CPC Classification: F24F

Claim Text:
1. An air-conditioner control interface device that communicates information between an air conditioner and an external device, comprising: an air-conditioner-information input/output unit that transmits or receives information to or from the air conditioner; an external-device-information input/output unit that transmits or receives information to or from the external device; an interface-control-information input/output unit that retrieves stored predetermined interface control information, the interface control information including (1) definitions of air-conditioner manipulating information to be transmitted to the air conditioner from the external device and operating information on the air conditioner to be transmitted to the external device from the air conditioner and (2) methods by which respective information is received from the air conditioner and is to be transmitted to the external device and respective information is received from the external device and is to be transmitted to the air conditioner; and an interface controller that receives the interface control information from the interface-control-information input/output unit, interprets the interface control information and controls both the external-device-information input/output unit and the air-conditioner-information input/output unit to transmit the operating information on the air conditioner from the air conditioner to the external device and to transmit the air-conditioner manipulating information from the external device to the air conditioner based on (1) the definitions of the air-conditioner manipulating information and the operating information and (2) the methods by which respective information is received from the air conditioner and is to be transmitted to the external device and respective information is received from the external device and is to be transmitted to the air conditioner, included in the interpreted interface control information.