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US 10,332,059 B2Granted
Security scoring in a smart-sensored home
AssigneeGoogle Inc.
InventorsYoky Matsuoka, David Sloo, Maxime Veron, Shigefumi Honjo, Isabel Guenette, Mark Rajan Malhotra
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Abstract
This patent specification relates to apparatus, systems, methods, and related computer program products for providing home security objectives. More particularly, this patent specification relates to a plurality of devices, including intelligent, multi-sensing, network-connected devices, that communicate with each other and/or with a central server or a cloud-computing system to provide any of a variety of useful home security objectives.
Claims24
A method comprising:
- receiving, at a computing system, home data from a plurality of network-connected smart devices of a smart-home environment;
- processing, with the computing system, the home data received from the plurality of network-connected smart devices of the smart-home environment;
- generating, with the computing system, a security score and a suggestion for a user action based on the processed home data, wherein the security score numerically characterizes a level of security of the smart-home environment, and wherein performance of the user action is operative to improve the generated security score;
- in response to the generating, presenting information to at least one user of the smart-home environment, wherein the presented information comprises identification of the suggestion for the user action;
- in response to the presenting, obtaining, at the computing system from at least one network-connected smart device of the plurality of network-connected smart devices of the smart-home, improvement data that is indicative of performance of the user action;
- in response to the obtaining, processing, with the computing system, the obtained improvement data;
- improving the security score, with the computing system, based on the processed improvement data;
- and
- storing, with the computing system, the improved security score, wherein the processed home data comprises at least one of:
- capability data indicative of at least one capability of at least one network-connected smart device of the plurality of network-connected smart devices;
- opportunity data indicative of at least one opportunity afforded to at least one network-connected smart device of the plurality of network-connected smart devices by at least one influencer of the smart-home environment;
- or
- environmental data indicative of at least one behavioral characteristic of the smart-home environment.
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A system for protecting a smart-home environment, the system comprising:
- a plurality of network-connected smart devices at the smart-home environment;
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- a computing system that:
- receives home data from the plurality of network-connected smart devices;
- processes the home data received from the plurality of network-connected smart devices;
- generates a security score and a suggestion for a user action based on the processed home data, wherein the security score numerically characterizes a level of security of the smart-home environment, and wherein performance of the user action is operative to improve the generated security score;
- presents information to at least one user of the smart-home environment, wherein the presented information comprises identification of the suggestion for the user action;
- in response to the presentation of the information, obtains, from at least one network-connected smart device of the plurality of network-connected smart devices, improvement data that is indicative of performance of the user action;
- in response to the obtainment of the improvement data, processes the obtained improvement data;
- improves the security score based on the processed improvement data;
- and
- stores the improved security score, wherein the processed home data comprises at least one of:
- capability data indicative of at least one capability of at least one network-connected smart device of the plurality of network-connected smart devices;
- opportunity data indicative of at least one opportunity afforded to at least one network-connected smart device of the plurality of network-connected smart devices by at least one influencer of the smart-home environment;
- or
- environmental data indicative of at least one behavioral characteristic of the smart-home environment.
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A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising computer-readable instructions recorded thereon for:
- receiving, at a computing system, home data from a plurality of network-connected smart devices of a smart-home environment;
- processing, with the computing system, the home data received from the plurality of network-connected smart devices of the smart-home environment;
- generating, with the computing system, a security score and a suggestion for a user action based on the processed home data, wherein the security score numerically characterizes a level of security of the smart-home environment, and wherein performance of the user action is operative to improve the generated security score;
- in response to the generating, presenting information to at least one user of the smart-home environment, wherein the presented information comprises identification of the suggestion for the user action;
- in response to the presenting, obtaining, at the computing system from at least one network-connected smart device of the plurality of network-connected smart devices of the smart-home, improvement data that is indicative of performance of the user action;
- in response to the obtaining, processing, with the computing system, the obtained improvement data;
- improving the security score, with the computing system, based on the processed improvement data;
- and
- storing, with the computing system, the improved security score, wherein the processed home data comprises at least one of:
- capability data indicative of at least one capability of at least one network-connected smart device of the plurality of network-connected smart devices;
- opportunity data indicative of at least one opportunity afforded to at least one network-connected smart device of the plurality of network-connected smart devices by at least one influencer of the smart-home environment;
- or
- environmental data indicative of at least one behavioral characteristic of the smart-home environment.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.