Configuring a smart home controller

• US 10,559,192 B2
• Filed: 10/29/2018
• Issued: 02/11/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 03/27/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Boettcher, Jesse William, Le Guen, Sophie Solveig, Rukes, Jason Rundle, Boda, Ted Stephen, Sloo, David
• Primary Examiner(s): Phan, Hai
• Assistant Examiner(s): Tang, Son M
• Application Number:
  US16/174,077
• Publication Number:
  US 20190066489A1
• Time in Patent Office: 470 Days
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Abstract

A method performed at a computer system includes: obtaining door lock activation data for a door of a dwelling of the user; obtaining current occupancy data for the dwelling; setting a configuration of a controller for the dwelling, based at least in part on the door lock activation data for the door and the current occupancy data for the dwelling; the first configuration including for each sensor in a set of sensors coupled to the controller, disabling the sensor or disabling alerts from the sensor.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing one or more programs, the one or more programs comprising instructions, which when executed by a computer system, cause the computer system to:

obtain door lock activation data for a door of a dwelling of a user;

determine whether the door is currently locked or unlocked based at least in part on the obtained door lock activation data;

obtain current occupancy data for the dwelling of the user;

determine whether the dwelling is currently occupied based at least in part on the obtained occupancy data;

set a configuration of a controller for the dwelling to a first configuration based at least in part on;

(i) the determination of whether the door is currently locked or unlocked, and

(ii) the determined occupancy for the dwelling,

the first configuration including for each sensor in a set of sensors coupled to the controller, disabling the sensor or disabling alerts from the sensor; and

while the controller is operating in the first configuration;

in accordance with a determination that the dwelling is unoccupied and that the door is currently unlocked, set or send instructions to set the configuration of the controller to a second configuration, the second configuration including for each sensor in the set of sensors coupled to the controller, enabling the sensor or enabling alerts from the sensor.

2. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein obtaining current occupancy data for the dwelling of the user includes receiving current location data for the user from one or more sensors in the dwelling of the user.

3. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein obtaining current occupancy data for the dwelling of the user includes receiving current location data for the user from a smart phone of the user.

4. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the set of sensors coupled to the controller includes one or more video cameras, and wherein the first configuration has the one or more video cameras in the dwelling enabled, but notifications from the one or more video cameras in the dwelling disabled.

5. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the set of sensors coupled to the controller includes one or more video cameras, and wherein the second configuration has the one or more video cameras in the dwelling enabled, and notifications from the one or more video cameras in the dwelling enabled.

6. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1, including instructions, which when executed by the computer system, cause the computer system to:

in accordance with a determination that

the door was locked from inside the dwelling, and

the dwelling is unoccupied,

set or send instructions to set the configuration of the controller for the dwelling to the second configuration.

7. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1, including instructions, which when executed by the computer system, cause the computer system to:

in accordance with a determination that

the door is unlocked, and

the dwelling is unoccupied,

set or send instructions to set the configuration of the controller for the dwelling to the second configuration, including locking or sending instructions to lock one or more doors in the dwelling.

8. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1, including instructions, which when executed by the computer system, cause the computer system to:

in accordance with a determination that

the door is unlocked, and

the dwelling is unoccupied,

set or send instructions to set the configuration of the controller for the dwelling to the second configuration, including locking or sending instructions to lock one or more doors in the dwelling, and sending a notification to the user that the controller has been placed in the second configuration.

9. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein a housing that contains the computer system also contains a door lock for the door.

10. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the computer system comprises the controller for the dwelling.

11. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the computer system is located in a smart home provider server system remote from the dwelling.

12. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the occupancy data includes two or more of:

motion data, visual data, audio data, ambient light data, touch data, ultrasonic data, and passive infrared data.

13. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the one or more programs further comprise instructions, which when executed by the computer system, cause the computer system to identify one or more occupants in the dwelling based on the obtained occupancy data.

14. A computer system, comprising:

one or more processors;

memory; and

one or more programs, wherein the one or more programs are stored in the memory and configured to be executed by the one or more processors, the one or more programs including instructions for;

obtaining door lock activation data for a door of a dwelling of a user;

determining whether the door is currently locked or unlocked based at least in part on the obtained door lock activation data;

obtaining current occupancy data for the dwelling of the user;

determining whether the dwelling is currently occupied based at least in part on the obtained occupancy data;

setting a configuration of a controller for the dwelling to a first configuration based at least in part on;

(i) the determination of whether the door is currently locked or unlocked, and

(ii) the determined occupancy for the dwelling,

the first configuration including for each sensor in a set of sensors coupled to the controller, disabling the sensor or disabling alerts from the sensor; and

while the controller is operating in the first configuration;

in accordance with a determination that the dwelling is unoccupied and that the door is currently unlocked, setting or sending instructions to set the configuration of the controller to a second configuration, the second configuration including for each sensor in the set of sensors coupled to the controller, enabling the sensor or enabling alerts from the sensor.

15. A method, comprising:

at a computer system with one or more processors and memory;

obtaining door lock activation data for a door of a dwelling of a user;

determining whether the door is currently locked or unlocked based at least in part on the obtained door lock activation data;

obtaining current occupancy data for the dwelling of the user;

determining whether the dwelling is currently occupied based at least in part on the obtained occupancy data;

setting a configuration of a controller for the dwelling to a first configuration based at least in part on;

(i) the determination of whether the door is currently locked or unlocked, and

(ii) the determined occupancy for the dwelling,

the first configuration including for each sensor in a set of sensors coupled to the controller, disabling the sensor or disabling alerts from the sensor; and

while the controller is operating in the first configuration;

in accordance with a determination that the dwelling is unoccupied and that the door is currently unlocked, setting or sending instructions to set the configuration of the controller to a second configuration, the second configuration including for each sensor in the set of sensors coupled to the controller, enabling the sensor or enabling alerts from the sensor.

16. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

in accordance with setting, or sending instructions to set, the configuration of the controller to the second configuration, send a notification to the user that the controller has been set to the second configuration.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

in response to sending the notification to the user, receiving a user request to set the controller to a third configuration; and

in response to receiving the user request, setting or sending instructions to set the controller to the third configuration.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein the set of sensors coupled to the controller includes one or more motion sensors for the dwelling, wherein the first configuration has the one or more motion sensors disabled, and wherein the second configuration has the one or more motion sensors enabled.

19. The method of claim 16, wherein the first configuration comprises a user-home configuration, and wherein the second configuration comprises a user-away configuration.

20. The method of claim 16, wherein setting or sending instructions to set the configuration of the controller to the second configuration includes:

determining whether the door of the dwelling is locked based on the door lock activation data; and

in accordance with a determination that the door of the dwelling is unlocked, locking or sending instructions to lock the door.