METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR COMMUNICATING WITH ELECTRONIC DEVICES

• US 20150365480A1
• Filed: 06/16/2015
• Published: 12/17/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/16/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: SpiderMonkey, LLC (Five9, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: SpiderMonkey, LLC (Five9, Inc.)
• Inventors: Thomson, Greg, Soto, Raymond Michael, Carney, John, Prokopyev, Oleksandr
• Application Number:
  US14/740,967
• Publication Number:
  US 20150365480A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/281 indicating a format for calling an appliance service function in a home automation network for remote control or remote monitoring of applications H04L67/025
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2816 Controlling appliance services of a home automation network by calling their functionalities arrangements in telecontrol or telemetry systems for selectively calling a substation from a main station; in which substation desired apparatus is selected for applying a control signal thereto or for obtaining measured values therefrom H04Q9/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2827 Reporting to a device within the home network; wherein the reception of the information reported automatically triggers the execution of a home appliance functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0876 Network utilisation, e.g. volume of load or congestion level
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services

Abstract

Methods and systems for communicating with electronic devices are provided. In some embodiments, a method for interacting with electronic devices may include a method for interacting with electronic devices on a network, the method comprising the steps of: searching for the presence of a signal generated by an electronic device; detecting the presence of an unregistered electronic device on the network; receiving schema from electronic device; associating the received device schema with a record of data in a database or other repository; and using the associated data to control a function of the electronic device through the network.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method for interacting with electronic devices on a network, the method comprising the steps of:

searching for the presence of a signal generated by an electronic device;

detecting the presence of an unregistered electronic device on the network;

receiving device schema data from electronic device;

associating the received device schema data with a record of data in a database; and

using the associated schema data to connect with and control functions of the electronic device through the network.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the data comprises data on the states and actions of the electronic device.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the data on how to control a function of the electronic device comprises data on interactions between the electronic device and other electronic devices on the network.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the data on how to control a function of the electronic device allows the functions of two or more devices to interact with each other.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of associating trigger event data with data on how to control a function of the electronic device in a database.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising the step of detecting a trigger event by an electronic device on the network.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising the step of collecting data associated with the trigger event.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising the step of retrieving data on how to control a function of the electronic device based on the collected data associated with the trigger event.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of collecting context data of the electronic device on the network.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising the step of ranking the data on how to control a function of the electronic device retrieved from the database based on the collected context data of the electronic device on the network.

11. A computer implemented method for controlling electronic devices through dynamically generated graphical user interfaces, the method comprising the steps of;

determining a first context of the client device;

determining a first set of smart devices within the context; and

creating a first graphic interface on the client device capable of controlling the determined first set of smart devices.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising the steps of:

determining a second context of the client device;

determining a second set of smart devices within the context; and

creating a second graphic interface on the client device capable of controlling the determined second set of smart devices.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the first graphic user interface and second graphic user interface are configured to control different sets of smart devices.

14. The method of claim 11, further comprising the step of receiving user input on the client device to control a function on a smart device located within the first context.