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Remote sound generation for a home automation system

  • US 9,882,736 B2
  • Filed: 06/22/2016
  • Issued: 01/30/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/09/2016
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for sound generation based on remotely-enforced rules, the method comprising:

  • receiving, by a home automation host system, a rule definition for a rule, the rule defining a sound event to be remotely output in response to an occurrence of a home automation event, wherein the sound event indicates a sound;

    monitoring, by the home automation host system, home automation data received from one or more home automation devices for the home automation event;

    in response to receiving home automation data indicative of the home automation event, executing, by the home automation host system, the rule based on the rule definition;

    transmitting, by a low power wireless network interface of the home automation host system, to a sound generation device, a sound execution message comprising an identifier indicative of the sound, wherein;

    the sound corresponds to a local audio file stored by the sound generation device; and

    the sound generation device stores a data storage arrangement that links the local audio file with the identifier; and

    transmitting, by the home automation host system, to the sound generation device, via a low power wireless network, a local disablement indicator as a parameter of the sound execution message, wherein the local disablement indicator defines whether physical user input provided to the sound generation device is permitted to disable output of the local audio file.

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