APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GAMIFICATION OF SENSOR DATA INTERPRETATION IN SMART HOME

• US 20160055422A1
• Filed: 08/19/2014
• Published: 02/25/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 08/19/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: LI, Zhiyun
• Granted Patent: US 10,345,767 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 15/02 electric
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/2642 Domotique, domestic, home control, automation, smart house
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 20/00 Machine learning
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 5/047 Pattern matching networks; Rete networks

Abstract

An apparatus and method for correlating events in a smart home system as a pattern. The apparatus and method include collecting from smart home devices, state change events of the smart home system, determining whether a series of the collected state change events are a known pattern, requesting, when the series of the collected state change events is an unknown pattern, users of the smart home system to identify what caused the collected state change events, and judging, by the smart home users, a best reason among the identified causes of the collected state change events.

Claims

1. A method for correlating events in a smart home system as a pattern, the method comprising:

collecting from smart home devices state change events of the smart home system;

determining whether a series of the collected state change events are a known pattern;

requesting, when the series of the collected state change events is an unknown pattern, users of the smart home system to identify what caused the collected state change events; and

judging, by the smart home users, a best reason among the identified causes of the collected state change events.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the smart home users closest to a location of the collected state change events judgment is given greater weight than the smart home users further away.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

compensating at least one smart home user of the smart home users who is judged to have the best reason among the identified causes of the collected state change events.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

storing as the known pattern, the best reason among the identified causes of the collected state change events when one of the pattern is repeated greater than a threshold number of repeats, and the number of the smart home users who agree with the corresponding best reason is greater than a threshold number of users.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

associating with the stored best reason a corrective action to be taken by the smart home system in response to a future corresponding the collected state change events.

6. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

displaying to the smart home users, when the stored best reason is known, the occurrence of the stored best reason.

7. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

transmitting the stored best reason to other smart home systems.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the series of the collected state change events are at least two state change events that occur within a threshold period of time from each other.

17. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed, cause at least one processor to perform the method of claim 1.

9. A gateway apparatus of a smart home system, the apparatus comprising:

a gamification module configured to collect from smart home devices state change events of the smart home system, to determine whether a series of the collected state change events are a known pattern, to request, when the series of the collected state change events is an unknown pattern, users of the smart home system to identify what caused the collected state change events, and to judge, by the smart home users, a best reason among the identified causes of the collected state change events.

10. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the smart home users closest to a location of the collected state change events judgment is given greater weight than the smart home users further away.

11. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the gamification module is further configured to compensate at least one smart home user of the smart home users who is judged to have the best reason among the identified causes of the collected state change events.

12. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the gamification module is further configured to store as the known pattern, the best reason among the identified causes of the collected state change events when one of the pattern is repeated greater than a threshold number of repeats, and the number of the smart home users who agree with the corresponding best reason is greater than a threshold number of users.

13. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the gamification module is further configured to associate with the stored best reason a corrective action to be taken by the smart home system in response to a future corresponding the collected state change events.

14. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the gamification module is further configured to transmit for display on a smart home user'"'"'s device, when the stored best reason is known, the occurrence of the stored best reason.

15. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the gamification module is further configured to transmit the stored best reason to other smart home systems.

16. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the series of the collected state change events are at least two state change events that occur within a threshold period of time from each other.