Patent ID: 8854195
Filing Date: 2014-10-07
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for setting one or more parameters in a first guest room in a structure, the structure comprising a hospitality structure having a plurality of guest rooms and having a network interconnecting a plurality of network access nodes which facilitate access to the network, selected guest rooms in the structure having network access nodes associated therewith, the first guest room having a first network access node associated therewith, the method comprising: retrieving a first one of a plurality of guest database records in response to a corresponding human guest checking in to the hospitality structure, each guest database record corresponding to one of a plurality of human guests and specifying guest preferences for the one or more parameters for the corresponding human guest, each guest database record further specifying entertainment and information service preferences for the corresponding human guest; transmitting control information corresponding to the guest preferences specified by the first guest database record for the one or more parameters to the first network access node; converting the control information into one or more control signals for controlling one or more control systems associated with the one or more parameters in the first guest room; and controlling the one or more control systems to set the one or more parameters in the first guest room in accordance with the one or more control signals, thereby customizing the first guest room according to the guest preferences specified by the first guest database record prior to occupation of the first guest room by the human guest corresponding to the first guest database record; providing entertainment and information services to the first guest room corresponding to the entertainment and information service preferences specified in the first guest database record; and repeating the retrieving, transmitting, converting, controlling and providing for a subsequent one of the plurality of human guests checking in to the first guest room.