Patent 12114142 was granted and assigned to Apple (company) on October, 2024 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The present disclosure relates to a process for configuring an electronic device to control a first controllable external device. The process includes receiving information corresponding to the first controllable external device, and determining, based on the received information, whether the first controllable external device is associated with a plurality of controllable functions associated with a plurality of subcomponents of the first controllable external device.