DEALER PORTAL DEVICE ENROLLMENT

• US 20150081568A1
• Filed: 07/15/2014
• Published: 03/19/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/15/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ingersoll-Rand Company (Trane Technologies plc)
• Original Assignee: Ingersoll-Rand Company (Trane Technologies plc)
• Inventors: Land, Joseph George III
• Application Number:
  US14/332,221
• Publication Number:
  US 20150081568A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/304
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/00 Commerce
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/016 After-sales

Abstract

A server may receive an opt-in or an opt-out request from a customer device. The opt-in request allows a registered dealer device to view and control settings on a sensor/actuator at a customer site. The server may provide a graphical user interface to the dealer device. The graphical user interface is structured to allow the registered dealer device to view and control settings of the sensor/actuator. The server may be structured to receive changes to the settings of the sensor/actuator from the registered dealer device via the graphical user interface and to then change the settings of the sensor/actuator.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving, at a server, one of an opt-in request and an opt-out request from a customer device, wherein the opt-in request allows a registered dealer device to view and control settings on at least one of a plurality of sensors/actuators at a customer site, wherein the sensors/actuators are part of a home automation system;

receiving, at the server, dealer access right configuration data from the customer device, wherein the dealer access right configuration data defines whether the registered dealer device is allowed to view and control settings on at least one of a plurality of sensors/actuators at a customer site;

determining, with the server, whether the registered dealer device is allowed to access and control the sensors/actuators at the customer site;

in response to determining that the registered dealer device is allowed to access and control the sensors/actuators at the customer site, providing a graphical user interface to the registered dealer device, wherein the graphical user interface is structured to allow the registered dealer device to view and control settings to at least one of the sensors/actuators;

receiving, with the server, changes to the settings of at least one of the sensors/actuators from the registered dealer device via the graphical user interface; and

changing the settings of at least one of the sensors/actuators with the server.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the opt-in request may be based on a sensor/actuator-by-sensor/actuator basis or be based on an account-by-account basis.

3. A system including a server structured to implement the method of claim 1.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the dealer access right configuration data defines whether the customer device has granted temporary or persistent control rights.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the registered dealer device has control rights during an installation mode of at least one of the sensors/actuators.