SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONFIGURING A HOME APPLIANCE COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK

摘要

A system and method for configuring a target controlling appliance (Fig. 4) to communicate with a target controlled appliance. Setup information is supplie d to a remote control to configure the remote control to communicate command close to the target controlled appliance. A representation of configuration data is transmitted in a configured message to the target controlling appliance. The target controlling appliance uses the representation of the configuration data to automatically configure itself to communicate command codes to the target controlled appliance. In particular, the target controlling appliance used the representation of the configuration data to select those command codes in a command code library that are recognizable b y the target controlled appliance. The command code library could be local or remote to the target controlling appliance.