Identifying management system using a BLE WiFi bridge

• US 9,613,476 B2
• Filed: 02/13/2015
• Issued: 04/04/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 08/13/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: August Home, Inc. (Assa Abloy AB)
• Original Assignee: August Home, Inc. (Assa Abloy AB)
• Inventors: Johnson, Jason
• Primary Examiner(s): Yun, Eugene
• Application Number:
  US14/622,054
• Publication Number:
  US 20160050515A1
• Time in Patent Office: 781 Days
• Field of Search: 455 412
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 2047/0048 Circuits, feeding, monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 2047/0072 Operation
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 2047/0095 Mechanical aspects of locks controlled by telephone signals, e.g. by mobile phones
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 47/00 Operating or controlling locks or other fastening devices by electric or magnetic means electric permutation locks E05B49/00
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 2009/00769 with data transmission performed by wireless means
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 2009/00793 by Hertzian waves
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 2209/63 Comprising locating means for detecting the position of the data carrier, i.e. within the vehicle or within a certain distance from the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/00563 using personal physical data of the operator, e.g. finger prints, retinal images, voicepatterns
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/00571 operated by interacting with a central unit
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/00904 for hotels, motels, office buildings or the like
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19636 pertaining to the camera
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19656 Network used to communicate with a camera, e.g. WAN, LAN, Internet
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/1966 Wireless systems, other than telephone systems, used to communicate with a camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/3833 Hand-held transceivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/181 for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/068 using credential vaults, e.g. password manager applications or one time password [OTP] applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/65 Environment-dependent, e.g. using captured environmental data
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/027 using movement velocity, acceleration information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/33 : for indoor environments, e.g. buildings
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 : Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 : in wireless communication networks

Abstract

An identification management system is provided at a dwelling. One or more bridges are at the dwelling, each including a computing device in an interior of a dwelling with an internet-facing radio, and a second radio communicating with one or more Bluetooth LE devices or an equivalent device. One or more Bluetooth devices or Bluetooth peripheral devices, collectively, Bluetooth devices are in communication with the bridge. The bridge uses detection of a Bluetooth device that is associated with a person to track the person relative to the dwelling.

Claims

1. An identification management system at a dwelling, comprising:

one or more bridges at the dwelling configured to be in communication with a door lock system that includes a door lock and a drive shaft, the door lock system including a sensor coupled to a drive shaft and configured to assist in locking and unlocking of a lock of a lock device, each of a bridge including a computing device in an interior of a dwelling with an internet-facing radio, and a second radio communicating with one or more Bluetooth LE devices or an equivalent device, the door lock system including an engine with a memory coupled to the sensor and the drive shaft, wherein the memory stored with states of the door that are used with the sensor to determine if the door is locked or unlocked, the engine configured to provide energy to the door lock system for locking and unlocking of the door, the door lock system including an energy source configured to provide electrical energy;

a device coupled to the energy source and the engine, the device configured to convert electrical energy received from the energy source into mechanical energy;

one or more Bluetooth devices or Bluetooth peripheral devices, collectively, Bluetooth devices in communication with the bridge, the Bluetooth device being at an exterior or an interior of the dwelling; and

wherein the bridge uses detection of a Bluetooth device that is associated with a person to track the person and upon a command by a mobile device provide locking or unlocking of a door of the door lock system, the bridge configured to allow controlled access to the dwelling that includes an occupant of the dwelling as well as a designated third person granted access rights by the occupant.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein a signal strength between the bridge and the Bluetooth device is used to identify the person.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the one or more servers are at a cloud infrastructure.

4. The system of claim 2, wherein the one or more servers are at a backend of the system.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the bridge is configured to provide real time conductivity to one or more servers.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the system is configured to provide an identify of a person entering or exiting the dwelling.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the Bluetooth device is any device that associates a person with a person'"'"'s identify.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein facial/body motion recognition is utilized for identification.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the lock operations are either manual or via a mobile application.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the equivalent device is selected from at least one of a mobile device, a key fob, a wearable device.

11. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

using the identification to determine an intent of the person entering or exiting from the dwelling.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the system has a back-end that continuously monitors the air for identification of a person.

13. The system of claim 1, wherein the dwelling is any structure.

14. The system of claim 1, wherein the bridge uses detection of a Bluetooth device that is associated with a person to track signal strength between the bridge and the Bluetooth device to determine where the person is relative to the dwelling.

15. The system of claim 1, wherein the bridge determines how far the person is from the dwelling.

16. The system of claim 1, wherein the bridge tracks signal strength over time between the bridge and the Bluetooth device to determine if known or unknown people are at the exterior of the dwelling.

17. The system of claim 1, wherein the bridge tracks signal strength over time between the bridge and the Bluetooth device when to determine if the person is approaching the dwelling.

18. The system of claim 1, wherein the bridge tracks signal strength over time between the bridge and the Bluetooth device to determine if the person is entering the dwelling from the exterior.

19. The system of claim 1, wherein the bridge tracks signal strength over time between the bridge and the Bluetooth device to determine when the person enters the dwelling.

20. The system of claim 1, wherein the bridge tracks signal strength over time between the bridge and a bluetooth device to determine if the person is moving towards the dwelling.