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US 6,642,852 B2 1 REMOTE CONTROL DEVICE WITH APPLIANCE POWER AWARENESS BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates generally to home app

US 6,642,852 B2 3 FIG. 5 illustrates an exemplary method for setting up the table of FIG. 4 to enable the remote control of the system of FIG. 1 to re

US 6,642,852 B2 5 other devices such as PDAs, personal computers, or the like. Accordingly, the description that follows need not be lim iting. As ill

US 6,642,852 B2 7 awareness of the current power state (i.e., on or off) of the one or more home appliances 12 the remote control 10 is setup to contr

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US 6,642,852 B2 unique time period before transmitting its reply message. By Way of example, a poWer monitor unit 14 may Wait a time equal to 20 milli

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U.S. Patent Nov. 4, 2003 Sheet 4 0f 14 US 6,642,852 B2 4-20 430 440 450 $$$$ Device RF Unit # Con?gured? Power status TV 0 Yes 0N VCR 3 Yes ON % CBL N

U.S. Patent Nov. 4, 2003 Sheet 5 0f 14 US 6,642,852 B2 Setup code "979" entered + Set RF unit 5 at table . = entry"DeVi¢e-t)‘£>e&quo

U.S. Patent Nov. 4, 2003 Sheet 6 6f 14 US 6,642,852 B2 Get system power status Transmit power status enquiry message t Enable receiver, start timer (N

U.S. Patent Y Nov. 4, 2003 h 8 i have discrete power ON/OFF codes? Scan power Status Table for this device Transmit discrete "Power 0N” command P

U.S. Patent Nov. 4, 2003 Sheet 8 0f 14 US 6,642,852 B2 Power"0N" Look up Power Status Table entry for this device Cail”(;et power status&quo