Patent ID: 7667668

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a user interface image comprising graphical user interface (“GUI”) objects, each GUI object representing a control in a home automation system; control logic configured to receive the user interface image and to separate the user interface image into a plurality of sub-images, wherein the GUI objects are distributed among the sub-images, wherein the plurality of sub-images includes overlapping sub-images, and wherein each of a pair of overlapping sub-images includes at least one GUI object in common that represents the same control in the home automation system; a transceiver configured to convey the plurality of sub-images to remote terminals, and configured to receive input data from the remote terminals, wherein the input data is generated responsive to user selection of one of the distributed GUI objects displayed at one of the remote terminals; and an input interface that maps the input data to a GUI object in the user interface image that corresponds to the selected distributed GUI object, wherein the control logic processes the input data received from the remote terminals to provide a control input for controlling the home automation system.