Secure remote actuation system with dynamic constraints

• US 9,986,065 B2
• Filed: 03/13/2017
• Issued: 05/29/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 07/03/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Richmond Valley LLC
• Original Assignee: Hall Labs, LLC
• Inventors: Hall, David R., Hall, Mark, Boswell, Craig, Malone, Steven
• Primary Examiner(s): Neyzari, Ali
• Application Number:
  US15/457,198
• Publication Number:
  US 20170187841A1
• Time in Patent Office: 442 Days
• Field of Search: 340 52
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 15/02 electric
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/008 Alarm setting and unsetting, i.e. arming or disarming of the security system
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/10 using wireless transmission systems G08B25/009 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 17/02 using a radio link
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 2201/12 Power saving techniques of remote control or controlled devices
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 2201/32 Remote control based on movements, attitude of remote control device
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/38 Transceivers, i.e. devices in which transmitter and receiver form a structural unit and in which at least one part is used for functions of transmitting and receiving
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2803 Home automation networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2816 Controlling appliance services of a home automation network by calling their functionalities arrangements in telecontrol or telemetry systems for selectively calling a substation from a main station; in which substation desired apparatus is selected for applying a control signal thereto or for obtaining measured values therefrom H04Q9/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2818 from a device located outside both the home and the home network access arrangements H04L12/2856; for remote control or remote monitoring of applications H04L67/025; arrangements for transmitting signals characterised by the use of a wireless eletrical link G08C17/00; telephonic communication systems adapted for combination with remote control systems H04M11/007
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/082 the condition being updates or upgrades of network functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/22 comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/28 Restricting access to network management systems or functions, e.g. using authorisation function to access network configuration
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1097 for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/125 involving control of end-device applications over a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/75 Indicating network or usage conditions on the user display
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72415 : for remote control of appliances
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 11/007 : with remote control systems remote control in general G08C
• 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: H04W 12/08 : Access security
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/63 : Location-dependent; Proximity-dependent
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/04 : Arrangements for maintaining operational condition
• 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 4/046 : involving vehicles, e.g. floating traffic data [FTD] or vehicle traffic prediction
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/40 : for vehicles, e.g. vehicle-to-pedestrians [V2P]
• 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: H04W 52/0212 : managed by the network, e.g. network or access point is master and terminal is slave
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/27 : Transitions between radio resource control [RRC] states
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/12 : WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/18 : Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 : in wireless communication networks

Abstract

A secure remote actuation system includes a remote input receptor that receives one or more user inputs from a user, a cloud-based network stores the one or more acceptable inputs, a network device obtains the one or more user inputs from the remote input receptor, the network device obtains the one or more user inputs from the remote input receptor while the user is using the user interface, a cloud-based network compares the one or more user inputs to the one or more acceptable inputs, the acceptable inputs at least partially derived from dynamically changing environmental parameters, and a remote device is controlled based on the comparison of the one or more user inputs to the one or more acceptable inputs.

Claims

1. A secure remote actuation system, comprising:

a remote input receptor comprising a user interface for receiving one or more user inputs from a user;

a cloud-based network storing one or more acceptable inputs and comprising a network device for obtaining said one or more user inputs from the remote input receptor;

wherein the network device obtains said one or more user inputs from the remote input receptor while the user is using the user interface;

wherein the cloud-based network compares said one or more user inputs to said one or more acceptable inputs, the acceptable inputs at least partially derived from dynamically changing environmental parameters; and

a remote device that is controlled based on the comparison of the one or more user inputs to the one or more acceptable inputs.

2. The secure remote actuation system of claim 1, wherein the dynamically changing environmental parameters comprise one or more of:

altitude, telemetric parameters, longitudinal coordinates, latitudinal coordinates, global positioning parameters, strength-of-signal maps, and spatial object positioning data.

3. The secure remote actuation system of claim 2, wherein the dynamically changing environmental parameters create safety bounds defining the acceptable inputs.

4. The secure remote actuation system of claim 3, wherein the acceptable inputs are dynamically defined by a position of the remote device.

5. The secure remote actuation system of claim 3, wherein the acceptable inputs are dynamically defined by an altitude of the remote device.

6. The secure remote actuation system of claim 3, wherein the acceptable inputs are dynamically defined by an orientation of the remote device.

7. The secure remote actuation system of claim 3, wherein the acceptable inputs are dynamically defined by acceleration of the remote device.

8. The secure remote actuation system of claim 3, wherein the acceptable inputs are dynamically defined by velocity of the remote device.

9. The secure remote actuation system of claim 3, wherein the acceptable inputs are dynamically defined by a signal strength of the remote device.

10. The secure remote actuation system of claim 3, wherein the acceptable inputs are dynamically defined by a projected future position of the remote device based on a cloud-based map of a route of the remote device.

11. The secure remote actuation system of claim 1, wherein the acceptable inputs are dynamically defined by a position of the remote device compared to other moving devices within a predefined radius of the remote device.

12. The secure remote actuation system of claim 1, wherein the remote device is a robot.

13. The secure remote actuation system of claim 1, wherein the remote device is a self-driving vehicle.

14. The secure remote actuation system of claim 1, wherein the user device communicates wirelessly to the Internet.

15. The secure remote actuation system of claim 1, wherein the user device communicates through a wire to the Internet.

16. The secure remote actuation system of claim 1, wherein the acceptable inputs are dynamically updated based on one or more sensors attached to the remote device.

17. The secure remote actuation system of claim 1, wherein the acceptable inputs are dynamically updated based in part on a user input.

18. The secure remote actuation system of claim 16, wherein the one or more sensors attached to the remote device are one or more of temperature, pressure, altitude, speed, velocity, or a combination thereof.

19. The secure remote actuation system of claim 1, wherein the acceptable inputs are dynamically updated based on weather conditions.

20. The secure remote actuation system of claim 1, wherein the acceptable inputs are dynamically updated by geographic boundaries.