US 12,238,842 B2
Defining one or more groups in a configurable system based on device name similarity
Leendert Teunis Rozendaal, Valkenswaard (NL); Berent Willem Meerbeek, Veldhoven (NL); and Bartel Marinus Van De Sluis, Eindhoven (NL)
Assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V., Eindhoven (NL)
Appl. No. 17/772,244
Filed by SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V., Eindhoven (NL)
PCT Filed Nov. 2, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/080667
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 27, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/089475, PCT Pub. Date May 14, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 19206803 (EP), filed on Nov. 4, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0377869 A1, Nov. 24, 2022
Int. Cl. H05B 47/19 (2020.01); H04W 84/18 (2009.01)
CPC H05B 47/19 (2020.01) [H04W 84/18 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for configuring a configurable system, said configurable system comprising a plurality of devices, said plurality of devices having been given names, said system comprising:
at least one input interface;
at least one configuration interface; and
at least one processor configured to:
use said at least one input interface to obtain said names given to said plurality of devices,
determine which of said plurality of devices have similarities in their names,
determine a group comprising a subset of said plurality of devices based on said similarities, said subset comprising multiple devices which have similarities in their names, and
use said at least one configuration interface to define said group in said configurable system by configuring said configurable system,
wherein said multiple devices comprise one or more lighting devices, said multiple devices further comprise one or more sensor devices and/or one or more user input devices, and said at least one processor is configured to determine said group in dependence on said similarities between said names of said multiple devices exceeding a threshold value, and
wherein said at least one processor is configured to configure said configurable system to control at least one of said one or more lighting devices based on sensor data when said sensor data is produced by at least one of said one or more sensor devices and/or based on user input when said user input is received by said one or more user input devices.