Patent ID: 9647726
Date: 2017-05-09
CPC Classifications: G08C,H04B,H04L,H04M,H04W

Claim:
1. An arrangement for managing communication between one or more controller devices or one or more controllable devices, the arrangement comprising: a controllable device having a processor, memory, and a proximity sensor for detecting the proximity of a controller device or another controllable device, one or more communication mechanisms, one of the communication mechanisms being a proximity communications mechanism including at least a near field communications mechanism, the controllable device having access to one or more resource description files one of those resource description files including data representative of least a portion of the resources to control the controllable device; and a controller device having a processor, memory, and a proximity sensor for detecting the proximity of a controllable device or another controller device, one or more communication mechanisms one of which is a proximity communications mechanism including at least a near field communications mechanism, and the controller device having no access to the one or more resource description files of the controllable device, wherein, when the devices are brought together, such that at least one of the respective proximity sensors confirms the proximity of another device, the devices communicate wirelessly using the near field communications mechanism to exchange data to facilitate the communication of one or more resource description files of the controllable device to the memory of the controller device using one or more of the communication mechanisms for processing the resource description file by the processor of the controller device to allow control of the controllable device by the controller device.