System and Method to Have Location Based Personalized UI Updates on Mobile App for Connected Users In Security, Video and Home Automation Applications

• US 20160085412A1
• Filed: 09/18/2014
• Published: 03/24/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/18/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ademco Inc. (Resideo Technologies, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Inventors: MEGANATHAN, Deepak Sundar, ASWATH, Ravikumar Vemagal
• Granted Patent: US 10,310,704 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 17/00 Arrangements for transmitting signals characterised by the use of a wireless electrical link
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 2201/30 User interface
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 2201/91 Remote control based on location and proximity
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 2201/93 Remote control using other portable devices, e.g. mobile phone, PDA, laptop
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services

Abstract

An apparatus including a plurality of user controlled devices, each located at a respective predetermined location within a geographic area of a user, a respective location indicator associated with each of the plurality of user controlled devices, a portable user device including a respective controlling application of each of the plurality of user controlled devices embodied in a memory of the portable user device, a monitoring processor of the portable user device that detects a location of the portable user device within the geographic area based upon a wireless signal from one of the respective location indicators and an interface processor of the portable device that loads the controlling application of one of the plurality of user controlled devices based upon the detected location of the portable user device.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:

a plurality of user controlled devices, each located at a respective predetermined location within a geographic area of a user;

a respective location indicator associated with each of the plurality of user controlled devices;

a portable user device, the portable user device further comprising;

a respective controlling application of each of the plurality of user controlled devices embodied in a memory of the portable user device;

a monitoring processor of the portable user device that detects a location of the portable user device within the geographic area based upon a wireless signal from one of the respective location indicators; and

an interface processor of the portable device that loads the controlling application of one of the plurality of user controlled devices based upon the detected location of the portable user device.

2. The apparatus as in claim 1 wherein the respective location indicator further comprises a Bluetooth low energy device.

3. The apparatus as in claim 1 wherein the respective location indicator further comprises a unique system identifier saved in a memory of the respective location indicator.

4. The apparatus as in claim 3 further comprising a cross-reference file located within a memory of the portable device for each of the location indicators that cross-references the unique system identifier of the location indicator with at least one of the plurality of user controlled devices.

5. The apparatus as in claim 1 wherein the loaded controlling application further comprises an icon presented on a display of the portable user device.

6. The apparatus as in claim 1 wherein the plurality of user controlled devices further comprises one or more of a lighting control, a window blind control, a door lock control, a security system control, a garage door control and a heating system control.

7. The apparatus as in claim 1 wherein the portable user device further comprises one of an iPhone and Android device.

8. An apparatus comprising:

a user controlled device located at a predetermined location within a geographic area of a user;

a location indicator associated with the user controlled device that transmits a low power wireless signal including a unique system identifier associated with the user controlled device;

a portable user device, the portable user device further comprising;

a controlling application of the user controlled device embodied in a memory of the portable user device;

a monitoring processor of the portable user device that detects the user controlled device within the geographic area based upon the wireless signal from the location indicator; and

an interface processor of the portable device that loads the controlling application of the user controlled device based upon the detected signal from the location indicator.

9. The apparatus as in claim 8 further comprising an automation processor that executes the loaded control application.

10. The apparatus as in claim 9 further comprising a control icon displayed on a display of the portable device by the automation application.

11. The apparatus as in claim 8 wherein the location indicator further comprises a Bluetooth low energy device.

12. The apparatus as in claim 8 wherein the user controlled device further comprises one or more of a lighting control, a window blind control, a door lock control, a security system control, a garage door control and a heating system control.

13. The apparatus as in claim 8 wherein the user control device further comprises a plurality of user control devices each with its own location indicator and unique system identifier.

14. The apparatus as in claim 13 wherein the controlling application further comprises a respective controlling application for each of the plurality of user controlled devices saved in a memory of the portable device.

15. The apparatus as in claim 14 further comprising a cross-reference file that cross references the unique identifier of a detected location indicator with a respective control application of the plurality of controlling applications.

16. An apparatus comprising:

a plurality of user controlled devices located at respective predetermined locations within a geographic area of a user;

a respective location indicator associated with each of the plurality of user controlled devices that each transmit a low power wireless signal including a unique system identifier associated with the user controlled device;

a wireless portable user device, the portable user device further comprising;

a respective controlling application of each of the plurality of user controlled devices embodied in a memory of the portable user device;

a monitoring processor of the portable user device that detects a location indicator within the geographic area based upon the wireless signal from the location indicator; and

an interface processor of the portable device that loads the controlling application of one of the plurality of user controlled devices based upon the unique identifier of the detected wireless signal from the location indicator.

17. The apparatus as in claim 16 wherein the portable user device further comprises one of an iPhone and Android device.

18. The apparatus as in claim 16 further comprising a cross-reference file within a memory of the portable wireless device that cross references the unique identifier of a detected location indicator with a respective control application of the plurality of controlling applications.

19. The apparatus as in claim 16 wherein the location indicators further comprises a Bluetooth low energy device.

20. The apparatus as in claim 16 wherein the user controlled devices further comprises one or more of a lighting control, a window blind control, a door lock control, a security system control, a garage door control and a heating system control.