Patent ID: 8402373

Claim:
A computing device comprising: a processing unit and addressable memory; wherein the processing unit is configured to: aggregate a user interface based on two or more members of a plurality of peripheral computing devices each having a user interface and further aggregate according to two or more groups of devices, wherein the further aggregation is based on a comparison of user interface responses, and group the devices based on a determined set of user interfaces, wherein the determined set of user interfaces is based on a comparison of a set of identical characteristics and a set of differing characteristics, each characteristic associated with the user interface responses, wherein the two or more members of the plurality of user interfaces each require a user input to generate the user interface responses, and wherein the aggregate results in the plurality of user interfaces used as a single user interface; replicate a user input of at least one member of the plurality of user interfaces based on the aggregated user interface; and output for routing, to two or more members of the plurality of peripheral computing devices, a replicated user setting based on the aggregated user interface, wherein the plurality of user interfaces comprises a first user interface comprising a layout and content and a second user interface comprising a layout and content, and wherein the processing unit is further configured to aggregate based on the first user interface having an identical layout to the second user interface and then based on the first user interface having an identical content to the second user interface and wherein the identical layout is determined based on having same output fields and same input controls in the first user interface and the second user interface; and the identical content is determined based on having same values on an output field-by-output field basis across all output fields in the first user interface and the second user interface.