Patent ID: 6980868

Claim:
A system for integrating information appliances, comprising: an intranet; a plurality of information appliances, each information appliance comprising: an appliance I/O module connected to the intranet; a function module for storing a first piece of information, the first piece of information comprising a function of each corresponding information appliance; and a generation module for generating a second piece of information, the second piece of information comprising an instruction for execution generated by each corresponding information appliance; an integrated platform, comprising: a platform I/O module connected to the intranet; an identification module, according to the first piece of information, for identifying and storing the function of each information appliance; and a transmission module, according to the function stored in the identification module, for selectively transmitting the second piece of information to one of the plurality of information appliances; and a sensor, connected to the platform I/O module via the intranet, for detecting a location of a user, the transmission module transmitting the second piece of information to the one of the plurality of information appliances according to the location of the user.