Patent ID: 7941786

Claim:
A system for managing distribution of a controlling device configuration data, comprising: a controlling device having programming that uses controlling device configuration data to command operation of at least one appliance; a computing device having programming used to modify controlling device configuration data; and a Web server having programming and an associated database used to store data associated with a modified controlling device configuration data uploaded from the computing device via a wide area network; wherein a one of multiple file storage areas of the server in which the data associated with the modified controlling device configuration data uploaded from the computing device is stored functions to indicate to the programming an identification of a specific creator that created the data associated with the modified controlling device configuration uploaded from the computing device; and wherein the data associated with the modified controlling device configuration uploaded from the computing device and stored in the one of the multiple storage areas of the server is provided with an identification of a target controlling device for the data associated with the modified controlling device configuration data uploaded from the computing device.