Patent ID: 8032263

Claim:
A method comprising: providing an adjustable bed frame including one or more articulating portions; providing an air inflatable mattress associated with the adjustable bed frame to form an adjustable bed, said air inflatable mattress including flex regions about which the air inflatable mattress can flex; regulating air pressure in the air inflatable mattress with an air pump; and storing user preferences in a remote memory, said user preferences representing recall parameters relating to one or more adjustable aspects of the adjustable bed, said remote memory disposed apart from the adjustable bed frame, the air inflatable mattress, and the air pump, and said storing user preferences comprising: storing a plurality of values that define a range of available parameters for the adjustable bed, said storing the plurality of values including storing a table having a plurality of entries, each one of the plurality of entries specifying one of the range of available parameters for the adjustable bed; receiving a request to save a parameter of the adjustable bed as one of the user preferences; determining which of the plurality of values represents a current parameter of the adjustable bed to provide a current parameter value; and storing an association of the current parameter value with the user preference, said storing the association of the current parameter value with the user preference including adding a store indication to each one of the plurality of entries of the table except for the one of the plurality of entries representing the current parameter value.