Patent ID: 7528735

Claim:
Method of controlling a number of first devices linked by a communication network to a second device associated with a control device which is dedicated to said second device, the control device comprising a plurality of command input means, wherein the method comprises the steps: receiving, on each first device via said second device, a list of the plurality of command input means of the control device, on each first device to be controlled, configuring at least one association between a function of the first device and a particular command input means included in the list received, and transmitting the at least one association by a request from the first device to a management interface of the control device available in the second device, and when the particular command input means of the control device is activated, transmitting from the second device to the first device having the function associated with this particular command input means control information identifying the activated command input means in order to execute the function on the first device.