Patent ID: 8174411
Filing Date: 2012-05-08
Classification: G06F,G08C,H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A system, comprising: a database storing a plurality of codesets; a web server in communication with the database, the web server having instructions stored on a non-transient computer readable media, wherein the instructions provide: a configurator application for providing one or more codesets from the database to a consumer to thereby allow the consumer to configure a controlling device whereupon the controlling device will be adapted to use the one or more provided codesets to command functional operations of one or more appliances; and a builder application for providing data related to one or more codesets from the database to a developer to thereby allow the developer to develop one or more codesets to be provisioned to a controlling device whereupon the controlling device will be adapted to command functional operations of one or more appliances and for preventing the developer from copying codesets from the database in a format in which the codesets are stored in the database.