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US-12627738-B2 - System and method for server based control

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Abstract

A system and method in a building or vehicle for an actuator operation in response to a sensor according to a control logic, the system comprising a router or a gateway communicating with a device associated with the sensor and a device associated with the actuator over in-building or in-vehicle networks, and an external Internet-connected control server associated with the control logic implementing a PID closed linear control loop and communicating with the router over external network for controlling the in-building or in-vehicle phenomenon. The sensor may be a microphone or a camera, and the system may include voice or image processing as part of the control logic. A redundancy is used by using multiple sensors or actuators, or by using multiple data paths over the building or vehicle internal or external communication. The networks may be wired or wireless, and may be BAN, PAN, LAN, WAN, or home networks.

Inventors

  • Yehuda Binder
  • Benjamin Maytal

Assignees

  • MAY PATENTS LTD.

Dates

Publication Date
20260512
Application Date
20241027

Claims (20)

  1. 1 . A system comprising: a first device that is battery-powered, that is identified by a first identifier, and that comprises a first antenna for communicating over a first wireless network, wherein the first device is configured to send the first identifier over the first wireless network; a second device that is a handheld battery-operated mobile device, that is identified by a second identifier, that comprises a second antenna for communicating over the first wireless network, that comprises a third antenna for communicating over the Internet via a second wireless network, wherein the second device is configured to receive the first identifier from the first device over the first wireless network, and to send a first message that comprises a location of the second device and the first and second identifiers to the Internet over the second wireless network; a third device that is a handheld battery-operated mobile device, that comprises a display, that is identified by a third identifier, that comprises a fourth antenna for communicating over the Internet via a third wireless network, and that is configured to send over the Internet via the third wireless network a second message that comprises the first identifier; and a server that is connected to the Internet, that is configured to receive the first message from the second device, that is configured to receive the second message from the third device, and that is configured to send the location of the second device to the third device to be displayed by the display, in response to the receiving of the second message from the third device.
  2. 2 . The system according to claim 1 , wherein the first, second, or third wireless network uses an unlicensed radio frequency band.
  3. 3 . The system according to claim 2 , wherein each of the first, second, and third wireless network uses a same or a respective unlicensed radio frequency band.
  4. 4 . The system according to claim 2 , wherein the unlicensed radio frequency band is an Industrial, Scientific and Medical (ISM) radio band.
  5. 5 . The system according to claim 1 , wherein the first, second, or third wireless network comprises a Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN).
  6. 6 . The system according to claim 5 , wherein the WPAN is according to, based on, or compatible with, Bluetooth™ or Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.15.1-2005 standard.
  7. 7 . The system according to claim 5 , wherein the WPAN is according to, based on, or compatible with, Zigbee™, IEEE 802.15.4-2003, or Z-Wave™ standard.
  8. 8 . The system according to claim 1 , wherein the first, second, or third wireless network comprises a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN).
  9. 9 . The system according to claim 8 , wherein the WLAN is according to, based on, or compatible with, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11-2012, IEEE 802.11a, IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11g, IEEE 802.11n, or IEEE 802.11ac standard.
  10. 10 . The system according to claim 1 , wherein the first, second, or third wireless network comprises a wireless broadband network.
  11. 11 . The system according to claim 10 , wherein the wireless broadband network is a satellite network.
  12. 12 . The system according to claim 10 , wherein the wireless broadband network is a WiMAX network that is according to, or based on, or compatible with, IEEE 802.16-2009 standard.
  13. 13 . The system according to claim 10 , wherein the wireless broadband network is a cellular telephone network.
  14. 14 . The system according to claim 13 , wherein the cellular telephone network is a Third Generation (3G) network that uses Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS), Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (W-CDMA) UMTS, High Speed Packet Access (HSPA), UMTS Time-Division Duplexing (TDD), CDMA2000 1×RTT, Evolution-Data Optimized (EV-DO), Global System for Mobile communications (GSM), or Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE) EDGE-Evolution.
  15. 15 . The system according to claim 13 , wherein the cellular telephone network is a Fourth Generation (4G) network that uses Evolved High Speed Packet Access (HSPA+), Mobile Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX), Long-Term Evolution (LTE), LTE-Advanced, Mobile Broadband Wireless Access (MBWA), or is based on IEEE 802.20-2008 standard.
  16. 16 . The system according to claim 10 , wherein the first wireless network comprises a WPAN network.
  17. 17 . The system according to claim 16 , wherein the second wireless network comprises a WLAN network.
  18. 18 . The system according to claim 16 , wherein the second wireless network comprises a cellular telephone network.
  19. 19 . The system according to claim 16 , wherein the third wireless network comprises a first WLAN network.
  20. 20 . The system according to claim 16 , wherein the third wireless network comprises a cellular telephone network.

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD This disclosure relates generally to an apparatus and method for control such as in a building or in a vehicle using a server implementing gateway or control functionalities. BACKGROUND The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standardized Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP), including Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the Internet Protocol (IP), to serve billions of users worldwide. It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private, public, academic, business, and government networks, of local to global scope, that are linked by a broad array of electronic and optical networking technologies. The Internet carries a vast range of information resources and services, such as the interlinked hypertext documents on the World Wide Web (WWW) and the infrastructure to support electronic mail. The Internet backbone refers to the principal data routes between large, strategically interconnected networks and core routers in the Internet. These data routes are hosted by commercial, government, academic and other high-capacity network centers, the Internet exchange points and network access points that interchange Internet traffic between the countries, continents and across the oceans of the world. Traffic interchange between Internet service providers (often Tier 1 networks) participating in the Internet backbone exchange traffic by privately negotiated interconnection agreements, primarily governed by the principle of settlement-free peering. The Internet Protocol (IP) is the principal communications protocol used for relaying datagrams (packets) across a network using the Internet Protocol Suite. Responsible for routing packets across network boundaries, it is the primary protocol that establishes the Internet. IP is the primary protocol in the Internet Layer of the Internet Protocol Suite and has the task of delivering datagrams from the source host to the destination host based on their addresses. For this purpose, IP defines addressing methods and structures for datagram encapsulation. Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4) is the dominant protocol of the Internet. IPv4 is described in Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Request for Comments (RFC) 791 and RFC 1349, and the successor, Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6), is currently active and in growing deployment worldwide. IPv4 uses 32-bit addresses (providing 4 billion: 4.3×109 addresses), while IPv6 uses 128-bit addresses (providing 340 undecillion or 3.4×1038 addresses), as described in RFC 2460. The Internet Protocol is responsible for addressing hosts and routing datagrams (packets) from a source host to the destination host across one or more IP networks. For this purpose the Internet Protocol defines an addressing system that has two functions. Addresses identify hosts and provide a logical location service. Each packet is tagged with a header that contains the meta-data for the purpose of delivery. This process of tagging is also called encapsulation. IP is a connectionless protocol for use in a packet-switched Link Layer network, and does not need circuit setup prior to transmission. The aspects of delivery guaranteeing, proper sequencing, avoidance of duplicate delivery, and data integrity are addressed by an upper transport layer protocol (e.g., TCP—Transmission Control Protocol and UDP—User Datagram Protocol). The main aspects of the IP technology are IP addressing and routing. Addressing refers to how end hosts become assigned IP addresses and how sub-networks of IP host addresses are divided and grouped together. IP routing is performed by all hosts, but most importantly by internetwork routers, which typically use either Interior Gateway Protocols (IGPs) or External Gateway Protocols (EGPs) to help make IP datagram forwarding decisions across IP connected networks. Core routers serving in the Internet backbone commonly use the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) as per RFC 4098 or Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS). Other prior art publications relating to Internet related protocols and routing include the following chapters of the publication number 1-587005-001-3 by Cisco Systems, Inc. (July 1999) entitled: “Internetworking Technologies Handbook”, which are all incorporated in their entirety for all purposes as if fully set forth herein: Chapter 5: “Routing Basics” (pages 5-1 to 5-10), Chapter 30: “Internet Protocols” (pages 30-1 to 30-16), Chapter 32: “IPv6” (pages 32-1 to 32-6), Chapter 45: “OSI Routing” (pages 45-1 to 45-8) and Chapter 51: “Security” (pages 51-1 to 51-12), as well as IBM Corporation, International Technical Support Organization Redbook Documents No. GG24-4756-00 entitled: “Local area Network Concepts and Products: LAN Operation Systems and management”, 1st Edition May 1996, Redbook Document No. GG24-4338-00 entitled: “Introduction to Networking Technologies”, 1st Edition April 1994, Redbook Document No. GG24-2580-01 “IP Network Design Guide”, 2nd Edition