Patent ID: 9620002
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: G08C

Claim:
1. A method for selecting at least one device to be controlled by a radio frequency (RF) controller device, the method comprising: determining a first link quality value for a first device associated with a first group of a plurality of groups, each group of the plurality of groups having one or more controllable devices; determining a second link quality value for a second device associated with a second group of the plurality of groups; calculating a first proximity factor for the first group based at least partly on the determined first link quality value; calculating a second proximity factor for the second group based at least partly on the determined second link quality value; comparing the first and second proximity factors; based on the comparing, selecting the first group to be controlled by the RF controller device over the second group in response to the first group having a more favourable proximity factor than the second group; and subsequent to selecting the first group, selecting a different group of the plurality of groups in response to the different group having a proximity factor that is more favourable by more than a threshold amount than the proximity factor of the currently selected first group.