Patent ID: 8983387
Filing Date: 2015-03-17
Classification: H04M,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: transmitting, from a portable computing device, over a network to a remotely located network server that includes a network-maintained database and that is outside a control area of one or more electronic device, one or more queries for control commands for communication via control signals with each electronic device in the control area, wherein the one or more queries identify each of the one or more electronic devices; receiving, at the portable computing device, over the network from the network server, executable command codes for the portable computing device to communicate with each of the one or more electronic devices through the control commands via the control signals; accessing an account stored on the network-maintained database over the network to automatically synchronize the control commands across one or more other portable computing devices along with the portable computing device; and executing, by at least one processor of the portable computing device, the received executable command codes to communicate with each of the one or more electronic devices through the control commands via the control signals, wherein the portable computing device comprises one or more communication components including at least one of a transceiver, a transmitter, a receiver, and an antenna to communicate with the network server over the network that is outside the control area and each of the one or more electronic devices in the control area.