All Articles Tagged Patent

Julie Jacobson | 09/26 06:52 AM, 18 Comments

The trouble with all this great content – movies, music, TV shows and more – is that you never know where it resides and how to find it and play it quickly. Do you have Shrek stored on a local NAS, for example? Or can you stream it from Netflix or buy it from iTunes? Now there’s a patent application for that (#20110225156 by John Pavlik). Crestron Electronics, a leader in home automation and media distribution, has filed a patent for “Searching Two or More Media Sources for Media.” That’s… View this story

Julie Jacobson | 09/20 06:26 AM, 1 Comment

Is Panamax/Furman a power management company or a home-control firm? As it turns out, it’s a little of both. Recently the company earned a patent for the IR learning and transmission capabilities of its IR Control Link UPS products (below). At CEDIA Expo 2010, Panamax/Furman will showcase two-way monitoring and control via the ZigBee wireless protocol. At the show, the forthcoming BlueBolt version 1.2 z power management system will be interacting with ZigBee-enabled electronics. Already, BlueBolt 1.2, an IP-based monitoring and control platform for select Panamax/Furman power products, allows users… View this story