Re: Gates Patents Flipping a Light Switch

[T . Max Devlin]

On Thu, 13 May 2004 09:20:19 -0500, chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid>
wrote:

>"Wally" <where'swally@world.co> wrote:
>
>>a user control point (UCP) object including a space resource user control
>>(RUC) object for the space having at least one spatial service resource user
>>control (RUC) object, wherein the UCP object refers to a space object of
>>said at least one space object and instantiates a spatial service RUC object
>>for each of said at least one spatial service object, and wherein each
>>spatial service RUC object refers to a corresponding at least one spatial
>>service object, and wherein at least said space object or one of the spatial
>>service objects receives an indication of the type of the UCP device.
>>
>>
>>So its nothing as simple as flipping a light switch
>
>Sounds like bullshit, to me.

A control panel that tells the thing controlling the 'spatial service'
(heating, lighting, etc.) what kind of device it is running on, I
think.