User experience enhancement using proximity awareness

• US 10,587,480 B2
• Filed: 11/14/2017
• Issued: 03/10/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 11/14/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: WiSilica, Inc.
• Original Assignee: WiSilica, Inc.
• Inventors: Singamsetty, Suresh Kumar, Kwan, Dennis Ching Chung
• Primary Examiner(s): Augustine, Nicholas
• Application Number:
  US15/813,138
• Publication Number:
  US 20180227193A1
• Time in Patent Office: 847 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/22 comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/005 Discovery of network devices, e.g. terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/18 Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks

Abstract

A user interface for controlling multiple devices connected in a mesh network. The user interface may dynamically respond to the devices connected in the mesh network. The user interface may respond to devices based on their proximity or location. The user interface may allow for grouping of device controls.

Claims

1. An administrator node for multi-node mesh network, the administrator node comprising:

a wireless receiver to receive broadcast signals from a plurality of broadcast nodes of the mesh network, each of the broadcast signals comprising a node ID identifying a source broadcast node of the broadcast signals;

logic to determine a relative signal strength indicator for each received node ID and to rank received node IDs by an associated relative signal strength indicator;

logic to perform a lookup of each node ID to determine a node type and preset node controls for each source broadcast node; and

logic to determine if each source broadcast node has previously paired with the administrator node, and on condition that a particular source broadcast node has not previously paired with the administrator node, enable a user of the administrator node to pair the particular source broadcast node with the administrator node, and on condition that the particular source broadcast node has previously paired with the administrator node and has not been added to an existing node group, prompting the user of the administrator node with a list of proximate ungrouped nodes of the mesh network ordered by the ranked node IDs.

2. The administrator node of claim 1, further comprising logic to, on condition that the particular source broadcast node has been added to the existing node group, determine existence of a configured group proximity action to perform.

3. The administrator node of claim 2, further comprising logic to, on condition that the configured group proximity action does not exist, prompting the user of the administrator node to set the configured group proximity action.

4. The administrator node of claim 2, further comprising logic to, on condition that the configured group proximity action exists, identify proximate receiving nodes of the administrator node and communicating a control to the proximate receiving nodes to activate the configured group proximity action.