US 11,720,571 B2
Unified description scheme for controlling and operating network connected devices
David Kenneth Evans, Los Altos Hills, CA (US); Michael Alexander Yurochko, Los Gatos, CA (US); Yaron Sheba, Mountain View, CA (US); Kristopher Charles Linquist, Milpitas, CA (US); Hitesh Kalra, Cupertino, CA (US); David Frank Russell Weir, San Jose, CA (US); Rajiv Ramanasankaran, San Jose, CA (US); and Shalin Harshadkumar Patel, San Carlos, CA (US)
Assigned to Comcast Cable Communications, LLC, Philadelphia, PA (US)
Filed by Comcast Cable Communications, LLC, Philadelphia, PA (US)
Filed on Apr. 6, 2016, as Appl. No. 15/92,501.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/206,143, filed on Aug. 17, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2017/0052688 A1, Feb. 23, 2017
Int. Cl. G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06F 16/2457 (2019.01); H04L 67/12 (2022.01); G06F 16/21 (2019.01)
CPC G06F 16/24573 (2019.01) [G06F 16/21 (2019.01); H04L 67/12 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
receiving, from a first computing device, interface information, associated with an Internet of Things (IoT) device, indicating a plurality of functions for controlling the IoT device and indicating positions of content in an interface associated with the IoT device;
sending, to a second computing device, at least a portion of the interface information to cause output of the content at the indicated positions to enable control of the IoT device; and
receiving, from the second computing device, a message indicating one or more controls associated with the IoT device.