Patent ID: 7437150

Claim:
A method for remote control of structural appliances, comprising the steps of: communicating a structural appliance with a server programmed to accept mobile device commands; communicating a mobile device with said server; issuing said mobile device commands from said mobile device to said server; converting said mobile device commands to structural appliance commands; and issuing said structural appliance commands from said server to said structural appliance, whereby wireless control of said structural appliance is established, wherein said server is communicated with said structural appliance through a gateway, further comprising the steps of: storing structural appliance information at one of said structural appliance, said gateway and said server; and transmitting said structural appliance information from said server to said mobile device, and wherein said structural appliance information is provided in structural appliance format to said gateway, wherein said gateway converts said structural appliance format to mobile device format, and wherein said server transmits said structural appliance information to said mobile device in said mobile device format.