Patent ID: 9547982
Date: 2017-01-17
CPC Classifications: G05B,G08C,H04L,H04M,H04N,H04W

Claim:
1. In an environment including a plurality of appliances, a method comprising: accepting into a portable controlling device user input, the user input being indicative of an operation to be performed by a one or more of the plurality of appliances in the environment; determining by the portable controlling device via use of at least one signal received by the portable controlling device a current location of the portable controlling device relative to each of the plurality of appliances in the environment; using by the portable controlling device both the user input accepted into the portable controlling device and the determined location of the portable controlling device relative to each of the plurality of appliances in the environment to select from a database of commands available to the portable controlling device one or more commands to be transmitted to the one or more of the plurality of appliances; and transmitting by the portable controlling device the selected one or more commands to cause the one or more of the plurality of appliances to perform the operation.