System, device, and method of secure location-aware garage door actuation for efficient delivery of packages

#Some embodiments relate to the field of electronic devices.

#Millions of people worldwide utilize electronic devices for various purposes on a daily basis. For example, people utilize a laptop computer, a desktop computer, a smartphone, a tablet, and other electronic devices, in order to send and receive electronic mail (e-mail), to browse the Internet, to play games, to consume audio/video and digital content, to engage in Instant Messaging (IM) and video conferences, to perform online banking transactions and online shopping, and to do various other tasks.

#Some embodiments of the present invention include systems, devices, and methods of secure and location-aware garage door actuation for efficient delivery of packages. For example, a delivery vehicle or a courier carries or has a device able to determine its geographic location. Based on the geographic location, the device receives wirelessly, from a remote server or a cloud-based platform or from a nearby Home Automation System, an incoming wireless message indicating to the device how to construct and transmit an outgoing wireless message that would cause actuation of the particular garage door of a particular venue at which the device is located or for which a package delivery is required. Accordingly, a single device is dynamically configured on-the-fly, to selectively open a variety of garage doors of various houses or venues.

#FIG. 1 is a schematic illustration of a system, in accordance with some demonstrative embodiments of the present invention.

#FIG. 2 is a schematic block-diagram illustration of a system, in accordance with some demonstrative embodiments of the present invention.

#FIG. 3 is a schematic block-diagram illustration of a system, in accordance with some demonstrative embodiments of the present invention.

#The term “garage door” as used herein may comprise, for example, other suitable types of barriers, blockade members, movable gate, movable door, movable fence, a garage door able to open upwardly and able to close downwardly, a garage door able to swing or swivel or rotate on axis, a garage door able to be pulled by chains or belts, a movable barricade, or other types of closing/opening members or mechanisms. Similarly, the term “garage door system” may comprise systems that include such other types of barriers.

#Reference is made to FIG. 1, which is a schematic illustration of a garage door system 100, in accordance with some demonstrative embodiments of the present invention. Garage door system 100 may comprise, for example: a motor unit or an operator unit, denoted as motor/operator unit 110, typically affixed to (or mounted under) the ceiling of a garage; operable via belts and/or chains 102 to pull or to push or to move a garage door 103 (or other movable barrier). The motor/operator unit 110 comprises a wireless Radio Frequency (RF) receiver 111, and optionally a wireless RF antenna 112, to receive from a wireless RF transmitter 131 of a proprietary or “original” wireless Remote Control (RC) unit 130, an RF signal carrying a payload that indicates a command to activate or actuate or trigger the motor/operator 110, such that the garage door 103 would close if it is currently open, or such that the garage door 103 would open if it is currently closed, or to toggle the state of the garage door 103 between open and close or vice versa, or activate any other function of the garage door 103 or the garage door system 100 (e.g., turn on/turn off an illumination unit 112 of the motor/operator unit 110 of the garage door system 100).

#In some embodiments, the original RC unit 130 on the one hand, and the wireless RF receiver 111 of the motor/operator unit 110 on the other hand, may utilize a rolling code mechanism or a hopping code mechanism; such that each button-press of the original RC unit 130, causes the original RC unit 130 to generate and to transmit a new code that is different from the most-recently-used code. Each new code is generated based on a Secret Seed Value 114 (or a seed word, or multiple seed values, or multiple seed words), optionally using a particular cryptographic function performed by a cryptographic unit; such that, for example, both the motor/operator unit 110 and the original RC unit store the same Secret Seed Value 114, and have cryptographic units (115, 135) that utilize the same cryptographic function (e.g., a deterministic function) on that same secret seed value 114 in order to generate rolling code(s).