Patent ID: 7639155

Claim:
A method for pairing a transmitter and one given receiver out of at least two unpaired receivers, the transmitter being adapted for sending an identification message and an actionable command and a pairing command, each receiver being adapted to receive this identification message and actionable command and pairing command and to identify the transmitter and to supply a signal for the attention of a user, the method comprising: (a) automatically defining a subset from among the set of unpaired receivers; then (b) supplying the signal for the attention of the user by each receiver of the subset; and then (c) if only the one given receiver to be paired has supplied the signal for the attention of the user, transmitting the pairing command by the transmitter and pairing the receiver having supplied the signal for the attention of the user with the transmitter which transmitted the pairing command, thus completing the pairing of said one given receiver, and (c′) if more than one receiver to be paired has supplied the signal for the attention of the user or if the receiver to be paired has not supplied the signal for the attention of the user, automatically defining a new subset and repeating steps (b) and (c).