Technical layer for portable electronic assistant

摘要

A method of controlling an environment using a roaming electronic assistant. The method comprises receiving user environment setting preferences, user entertainment service authorizations, and user entertainment authorization credentials from devices in a home environment by an application executing on a computer system, establishing communication by the application with a destination location, receiving information about application programming interfaces (APIs) of devices located in the destination location by the application, establishing communication with the devices located in the destination location by the application based on the API information, whereby a presentation layer of the application is enabled to control the environment of the user at the destination location based on the user environment setting preferences, the user entertainment service authorizations, and the user entertainment authorization credentials.