Automation system user interface with three-dimensional display

• US 10,796,557 B2
• Filed: 01/28/2019
• Issued: 10/06/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 03/16/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: iControl Networks, Inc. (Comcast Corporation)
• Original Assignee: iControl Networks, Inc. (Comcast Corporation)
• Inventors: Sundermeyer, Ken, Dawes, Paul, Fulker, Jim
• Primary Examiner(s): Higa, Brendan Y
• Application Number:
  US16/258,858
• Publication Number:
  US 20190259267A1
• Time in Patent Office: 617 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19682 Graphic User Interface [GUI] presenting system data to the user, e.g. information on a screen helping a user interacting with an alarm system
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/003 Address allocation methods and details
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/007 Details of data content structure of message packets; data protocols
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/008 Alarm setting and unsetting, i.e. arming or disarming of the security system
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/009 Signalling of the alarm condition to a substation whose identity is signalled to a central station, e.g. relaying alarm signals in order to extend communication range
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/14 Central alarm receiver or annunciator arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 29/02 Monitoring continuously signalling or alarm systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2809 indicating that an appliance service is present in a home automation network monitoring functionality H04L43/0817; discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services, H04L67/51
• 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 12/2823 Reporting information sensed by appliance or service execution status of appliance services in a home automation network device-related reporting H04L43/065; 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 12/283 Processing of data at an internetworking point of a home automation network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2012/2841 Wireless
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2012/2843 Mains power line
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/22 comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/045 for graphical visualisation of monitoring data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/029 Firewall traversal, e.g. tunnelling or, creating pinholes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0428 wherein the data content is protected, e.g. by encrypting or encapsulating the payload
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/166 at the transport layer
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/025 for remote control or remote monitoring of applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 : with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72415 : for remote control of appliances
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/33 : for indoor environments, e.g. buildings

Abstract

Systems and methods comprising a device including a processor coupled to a plurality of premises devices located at a premises. The device is configured to generate layout data comprising a layout of the premises including representations of premises devices on a floor plan configured to represent the premises. The layout data includes configuration data for each of the premises devices. The premises devices include at least one of a security device and a network device. The system includes a sensor user interface (SUI) application coupled to the device. The SUI application is remote to the device and configured to use the layout data to generate display elements comprising a three-dimensional (3D) representation of the floor plan and the premises devices. The floor plan layout visually and separately indicates a location and a state of the premises devices. The state includes current state and historical state.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, by a device and from a premises device of a plurality of premises devices located at a premises, state data indicating a state of the premises device; and

causing output of a user interface that visually indicates;

at least a portion of the premises,

a device icon that indicates a location of the premises device at the premises and that indicates, based on the state data, the state of the premises device, and

a past event, associated with the premises device, located proximate to the device icon.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the causing output of the user interface comprises causing output, by the device, of the user interface.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the past event associated with the premises device comprises an event within a specified period of time.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the specified period of time is with respect to an output of the user interface.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the specified period of time is based on user input.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the past event associated with the premises device comprises a change in the state of the premises device.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the user interface visually indicates, proximate to the device icon, an elapsed time since the past event associated with the premises device.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein one or more degrees of transparency of the visual indication of the past event are based on an elapsed time since the past event associated with the premises device.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the one or more degrees of transparency increase according to an increase in the elapsed time since the past event associated with the premises device.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein one or more degrees of brightness of the visual indication of the past event are based on an elapsed time since the past event associated with the premises device.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the one or more degrees of brightness decrease according to an increase in the elapsed time since the past event associated with the premises device.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the visual indication of the past event comprises a circular area around the device icon.

21. The method of claim 1, wherein the user interface comprises a layout portion that indicates the at least the portion of the premises, and wherein the device icon is located relative to the layout portion.

13. A system comprising:

a first device configured to communicate with a plurality of premises devices located at a premises and receive state data from a premises device of the plurality of premises devices,

wherein the state data indicates a state of the premises device; and

a second device configured to output a user interface that visually indicates;

at least a portion of the premises,

a device icon that indicates a location of the premises device at the premises and that indicates, based on the state data, the state of the premises device, and

a past event, associated with the premises device, located proximate to the device icon.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the past event associated with the premises device comprises an event within a specified period of time and the specified period of time is with respect to an output of the user interface.

15. The system of claim 13, wherein the past event associated with the premises device comprises a change in the state of the premises device.

16. The system of claim 13, wherein the user interface visually indicates, proximate to the device icon, an elapsed time since the past event associated with the premises device.

17. A device comprising:

one or more processors; and

memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the device to;

receive, from a premises device of a plurality of premises devices located at a premises, state data indicating a state of the premises device; and

cause output of a user interface that visually indicates;

at least a portion of the premises,

a device icon that indicates a location of the premises device at the premises and that indicates, based on the state data, the state of the premises device, and

a past event, associated with the premises device, located proximate to the device icon.

18. The device of claim 17, wherein the past event associated with the premises device comprises an event within a specified period of time, and wherein the specified period of time is with respect to an output of the user interface.

19. The device of claim 17, wherein the past event associated with the premises device comprises a change in the state of the premises device.

20. The device of claim 17, wherein the user interface visually indicates, proximate to the device icon, an elapsed time since the past event associated with the premises device.

22. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause:

receiving, by a device and from a premises device of a plurality of premises devices located at a premises, state data indicating a state of the premises device; and

causing output of a user interface that visually indicates;

at least a portion of the premises,

a device icon that indicates a location of the premises device at the premises and that indicates, based on the state data, the state of the premises device, and

a past event, associated with the premises device, located proximate to the device icon.

23. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 22, wherein the past event associated with the premises device comprises an event within a specified period of time and the specified period of time is with respect to an output of the user interface.

24. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 22, wherein the past event associated with the premises device comprises a change in the state of the premises device.

25. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 22, wherein the user interface visually indicates, proximate to the device icon, an elapsed time since the past event associated with the premises device.