PROVISION OF ON PREMISE AMBIENT SERVICE METHOD AND APPARATUS

• US 20180286155A1
• Filed: 03/31/2017
• Published: 10/04/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Sarwar, Usman, Kumar, Anil
• Granted Patent: US 10,558,722 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/337 Profile generation, learning or modification
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/31 User authentication
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/52 Surveillance or monitoring of activities, e.g. for recognising suspicious objects recognising microscopic objects G06V20/69
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/257 electronically G07C9/26 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/37 using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voice recognition
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0861 using biometrical features, e.g. fingerprint, retina-scan cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication using biological data H04L9/3231
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/18 Closed-circuit television [CCTV] systems, i.e. systems in which the video signal is not broadcast
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/186 Video door telephones

Abstract

Ambient service apparatuses and methods associated with providing ambient service in a premise are disclosed herein. In embodiments, an apparatus for providing on premise ambient service may be provided. The apparatus may include a profile engine to interact with a cloud ambient service provider to receive at least one of a profile of a user of a premise or a profile of one or more visitors of the premise, wherein the profiles are associated with the provision of ambient service to a visitor of the premise on behalf of the user. The apparatus may further include a management module coupled to the profile engine to interact with one or more peripherals at the premise to provide ambient service to one or more visitors of the premise, on behalf of the user, based at least in part on the user or visitor profile. Other embodiments may be disclosed or claimed.

Claims

1. An apparatus for providing on premise ambient service, comprising:

a profile engine to interact with a cloud ambient service provider, the profile engine to receive at least one social profile, the at least one social profile being a profile of a user of a premise or a profile of one or more visitors of the premise, wherein the at least one social profile is associated with provision of ambient service to a visitor of the one or more visitors on behalf of the user; and

a management module coupled to the profile engine, the management module to interact with one or more peripheral devices at the premise to provide ambient service to one or more visitors of the premise on behalf of the user based at least in part on the at least one social profile;

wherein the apparatus is disposed at the premise.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the one or more visitors include known guests and strangers, and the user profile contains service preferences of the user for guests and for strangers.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the management module is to identify a visitor of the one or more visitors to the premise upon arrival.

4. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the management module is to identify the visitor of the one or more visitors based on data associated with interaction with the visitor at the premise, including at least one of visual analytic data or cell International Mobile Equipment Identity.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising an inference engine, coupled to the profile engine and to the management module, the interface engine to generate ambient service instructions for the premise based at least in part on one or more social profiles of the user, a group visitor, and/or an individual visitor, and based on data associated with interaction between the management module or the user and the one or more visitors at the premise.

6. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein the social profile of the group visitor is a social profile for one of a guest, a recognized stranger, or an unknown stranger, and wherein an individual visitor profile is for a specific individual.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein:

the profile engine is to control a communication interface to communicate with the cloud ambient service provider through a backhaul communication link, and

the management engine is to control the communication interface to communicate with the one or more peripheral devices through fronthaul communication link.

8. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the management module is to monitor interactions of the user with a visitor of the one or more visitors in the premise, and store information regarding the interactions at the profile engine.

9. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the profile engine is to control a communication interface to transmit the information regarding the interactions of the user with the visitor to the cloud service provider.

10. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein the inference engine is to further generate ambient service recommendations for the user'"'"'s approval in advance of a planned guest'"'"'s arrival.

11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the ambient service recommendations include one or more of food or gifts to order, stores or online services from which to order, brands and ingredients of food items, or brands and quality level of gifts to obtain.

12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein, upon user approval of the ambient services recommendations, the inference engine is to direct the management module to implement the preferred ambient services recommendations.

13. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the one or more peripheral devices include one or more of a gate, a door, a mailbox, a camera, a lamp, a light, an entertainment system, a food service device, a visitor communication device, and a user communication device.

14. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein, following a visit by the visitor of the one or more visitors to the premise, the management module is to control a communication interface to send data to the cloud ambient service provider to update the social profile.

15. A method to be performed by a computer device providing on premise ambient service, comprising:

obtaining or receiving, by the computer device, from a cloud ambient service provider, a social profile of a user of a premise or a social profile of one or more visitors of the premise, wherein the social profile of the user or the social profile of the one or more visitors are associated with provision of ambient services to a visitor of the one or more visitors on behalf of the user; and

interacting, by the computer device, with one or more peripheral devices at the premise to provide the ambient services to the one or more visitors of the premise on behalf of the user based at least in part on the obtained or received social profile.

16. The method of claim 15, further comprising identifying, by the computer device, a visitor of the one or more visitors based on data associated with interaction with the visitor at the premise, including at least one of visual analytic data or cell International Mobile Equipment Identity.

17. The method of claim 15, further comprising generating, by the computer device, real-time ambient service decisions based at least in part on one or more social profiles of the user, a group visitor, and/or an individual visitor, and based on data associated with interaction between the computer device or the user and the one or more visitors at the premise.

18. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

monitoring, by the computer device, interactions of the user with the visitor of the one or more visitors, and

transmitting, by the computer device, one or more of updated user or visitor profile data or user and visitor interaction data to the cloud ambient service provider.

19. A computing device to provide ambient service data to one or more ambient service apparatuses that provide ambient services as corresponding premises, the computing device comprising:

a management module to obtain, from individual ambient service apparatuses of the one or more ambient service apparatuses, information pertaining to users and visitors of a corresponding premise;

an interaction inference module comprising a hardware accelerator, the interaction inference module to create profiles for the users and visitors based at least in part on the obtained information; and

a profile database to store the profiles and receive updates to the stored profiles.

20. The computing device of claim 19, wherein the management module is to crawl or search for information on the users and visitors from various online sources, including social media.

21. The computing device of claim 19, wherein the interaction inference module is to initially obtain user preferences for dealing with a visitor in the premise, and the hardware accelerator is to create, based on the user preferences and the information obtained by the communications module, the profiles.

22. The computing device of claim 19, wherein the communications module is to send the social profiles to an individual ambient service apparatus in response to receipt, from the individual ambient service apparatus, of an indication that the visitor of the one or more visitors has arrived at the corresponding premise.

23. The computing device of claim 22, wherein the social profiles include data or instructions to indicate actuation of various peripheral devices in the corresponding premises for various interactions between the user and the one or more visitors at the corresponding premises.

24. One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media comprising a plurality of instructions that in response to being executed by one or more processors of a computing device, cause the computing device to:

obtain, by the computing device, a social profile of a user of a premise or social profiles of one or more visitors of the premise, wherein the social profile of the user and the social profiles of the one or more visitors are associated with provision of ambient services to the one or more visitors of the premise on behalf of the user; and

control one or more peripheral devices at the premise to provide the ambient services to one or more visitors of the premise on behalf of the user based at least in part on the social profile of the user or the social profiles of the one or more visitors.

25. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 24, wherein the plurality of instructions, in response to being executed cause the computing device to:

generate ambient service instructions for the premise based at least in part on one or more social profiles of the user, a group visitor, and/or an individual visitor, and based on data associated with interaction between the management module or the user and the one or more visitors at the premise.