Patent ID: 8704678

Claim:
A receiver assembly for managing an appliance, comprising: a receiver configured to receive a first datacast comprising utility information from a wide-area wireless communication system, wherein the wide-area wireless communication system comprises a plurality of transmitters configured to broadcast the first datacast; a processor in electrical communication with said receiver and the appliance, said processor configured to control the appliance as a function of the utility information; a display in electrical communication with said processor for notifying a user of said utility information; and an input interface in electrical communication with said processor for receiving instructions from said user on whether to alter usage of said appliance as a function of the utility information, wherein, when an instruction is received by the input interface to alter usage of said appliance as a function of the utility information, the appliance is regulated by the utility information in the first datacast and subsequent datacasts until such a time that the override instruction is received by the input interface from said user, and when an override instruction is received by the input interface, the appliance is not regulated by the utility information in the first datacast and subsequent datacasts until such a time that an instruction is received by the input interface from said user to alter usage of said appliance as a function of the utility information.