DOORBELL PACKAGE DETECTION SYSTEMS AND METHODS

• US 20180061164A1
• Filed: 10/25/2017
• Published: 03/01/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 05/27/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SkyBell Technologies Ip, LLC
• Original Assignee: Skybell Technologies, Inc.
• Inventors: Scalisi, Joseph Frank, Thomas, Andrew Paul, Harrison, Gregory Saul
• Granted Patent: US 10,043,332 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/08 Logistics, e.g. warehousing, loading or distribution; Inventory or stock management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0832 Special goods or special handling procedures, e.g. handling of hazardous or fragile goods
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0833 Tracking
• 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 2009/00396 starting with prompting the keyless data carrier
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 2009/0092 for cargo, freight or shipping containers and applications therefore in general
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/00309 operated with bidirectional data transmission between data carrier and locks
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/00896 specially adapted for particular uses
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/28 the pass enabling tracking or indicating presence
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/1472 with force or weight detection
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19619 Details of casing
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19684 Portable terminal, e.g. mobile phone, used for viewing video remotely
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19695 Arrangements wherein non-video detectors start video recording or forwarding but do not generate an alarm themselves
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 15/00 Identifying, scaring or incapacitating burglars, thieves or intruders, e.g. by explosives
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 3/10 using electric transmission; using electromagnetic transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/77 for interrogation
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/147 Communication arrangements, e.g. identifying the communication as a video-communication, intermediate storage of the signals selecting H04Q
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/186 Video door telephones
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/188 Capturing isolated or intermittent images triggered by the occurrence of a predetermined event, e.g. an object reaching a predetermined position signal generation from motion picture films H04N5/253
• 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

Abstract

Delivery parcel detection systems can include a remote computing device and a doorbell configured to detect a delivery parcel. Methods of enabling a door to be unlocked to allow access to a delivery person may include sending a digital key to a remote computing device. Methods may include ways to ensure security of the building.

Claims

1. A method of using a delivery parcel detection system, the method comprising:

sending a digital key to a remote computing device of a delivery person, wherein the digital key is configured to enable unlocking a door of a building to which a delivery parcel is addressed, wherein the door comprises a lock system configured to impede unauthorized entry into the building; and

detecting, by at least one of a doorbell and the lock system, the digital key via a first wireless communication from the remote computing device to at least one of the doorbell and the lock system.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising unlocking the door to permit the delivery person to place the delivery parcel inside the building in response to detecting the digital key.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the delivery parcel comprises an expected delivery time window, the method further comprising sending the digital key to the remote computing device in response to a first time being at least one of within the expected delivery time window and within a predetermined period prior to the expected delivery time window.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising enabling the digital key.

5. The method of claim 3, further comprising disabling the digital key in response to a second time being past the expected delivery time window.

6. The method of claim 3, further comprising receiving, by at least one of the doorbell and the lock system, a delivery parcel identification code of the delivery parcel, and unlocking the door in response to both detecting the digital key and receiving the delivery parcel identification code.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising unlocking the door in response to verifying that the delivery parcel identification code corresponds to an expected delivery time.

8. The method of claim 6, further comprising unlocking the door in response to verifying that the delivery parcel identification code corresponds to an expected delivery item.

9. The method of claim 3, further comprising recording a video, by the doorbell, in response to detecting the delivery person and in response to determining that the delivery parcel is an expected delivery item.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising saving the video and labeling the video as a delivery such that the labeling indicates to a doorbell user that the video shows the delivery of at least one item.

11. The method of claim 2, further comprising detecting a first location of the remote computing device and sending the digital key to the remote computing device in response to the first location.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising sending the digital key to the remote computing device in response to the first location being within one mile of at least one of the doorbell and the lock system.

13. The method of claim 11, further comprising sending the digital key to the remote computing device in response to the first location being within one hundred yards of at least one of the doorbell and the lock system.

14. The method of claim 11, further comprising sending the digital key to the remote computing device in response to the first location being within a direct wireless communication range of at least one of the doorbell and the lock system.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein the delivery parcel comprises an expected delivery time window, the method further comprising disabling the digital key in response to a second time being past the expected delivery time window.

16. The method of claim 11, further comprising detecting, by at least one of the doorbell and the lock system, a delivery parcel identification code of the delivery parcel, and unlocking the door in response to both detecting the digital key and detecting the delivery parcel identification code.

17. The method of claim 11, further comprising recording a video by the doorbell, determining that the video shows a delivery, and labeling the video such that the labeling indicates to a doorbell user that the video shows the delivery of at least one item.

18. The method of claim 2, further comprising detecting a first location of a delivery vehicle and sending the digital key to the remote computing device in response to the first location.

19. The method of claim 18 wherein the delivery vehicle is configured to transport the remote computing device and the delivery parcel.

20. The method of claim 18, further comprising sending the digital key to the remote computing device in response to the first location being within one mile of at least one of the doorbell and the lock system.

21. The method of claim 18, further comprising sending the digital key to the remote computing device in response to the first location being within a direct wireless communication range of at least one of the doorbell and the lock system.

22. The method of claim 18, wherein the delivery parcel comprises an expected delivery time window, the method further comprising disabling the digital key in response to a second time being past the expected delivery time window.

23. The method of claim 18, further comprising detecting, by at least one of the doorbell and the lock system, a delivery parcel identification code of the delivery parcel, and unlocking the door in response to both detecting the digital key and detecting the delivery parcel identification code.

24. The method of claim 18, further comprising recording a video by the doorbell, determining that the video shows a delivery, and labeling the video such that the labeling indicates to a doorbell user that the video shows the delivery of at least one item.

25. The method of claim 2, further comprising detecting a first identification code from the remote computing device, verifying that the first identification code is indicative of the remote computing device being authorized for deliveries, and sending the digital key to the remote computing device in response to detecting the first identification code and in response to verifying the first identification code.

26. The method of claim 25, further comprising detecting the first identification code by at least one of the doorbell and the lock system.

27. The method of claim 25, wherein the delivery parcel comprises an expected delivery time window, the method further comprising disabling the digital key in response to a second time being past the expected delivery time window.

28. The method of claim 25, further comprising detecting, by at least one of the doorbell and the lock system, a delivery parcel identification code of the delivery parcel, and unlocking the door in response to both detecting the digital key and detecting the delivery parcel identification code.

29. The method of claim 25, further comprising recording a video by the doorbell, determining that the video shows a delivery, and labeling the video such that the labeling indicates to a doorbell user that the video shows the delivery of at least one item.

30. The method of claim 29, further comprising sending the video to an entity associated with sending the delivery parcel.