Apparatus and method pertaining to the communication of information regarding appliances that utilize differing communications protocol

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9698997
APP PUB NO 20130151977A1
SERIAL NO

13324291

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An end-user device can aggregate information as pertains to a variety of appliances that otherwise utilize incompatible communication protocols to present a shared opportunity to accommodate current information regarding those appliances. This information can include status information regarding such appliances as well as, or in lieu of, instructions to be acted upon by those appliances. Gateways can serve to provide a communications interface between such appliances and, for example, an internet. By one approach one or more middleware platform intermediaries can interface between one or more of those gateways and the end-user device.

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  • THE CHAMBERLAIN GROUP, INC.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Arteaga-King, Alonso Bartlett, US 1 43
Fitzgibbon, James J Batavia, US 213 5135

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