US 11,888,643 B2Granted

Motorized electric shades and electric window blinds utilizing multi-path wireless communication

AssigneeOlibra LLC

InventorsZohar Shinar, Christopher Andrew Merck, Bradley Luke Totaro, Joao Ricardo Mattos e Silva, Marcio Granzotto Rodrigues, Natan Grando

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Abstract

System, device, and method of multi-path wireless communication. A method includes: constructing in an electronic device of a user, a control message indicating a user command intended to be performed by a Home Automation Device (HAD) of the user; wherein the constructing includes inserting into the control message a unique Message-Identifier. The method then transmits the control message, from the electronic device of the user to the HAD, concurrently via at least two different wireless communications channels which include at least: (i) a first wireless communication channel that includes passage of traffic through the Internet, and (ii) a second wireless communication channel in which no traffic passes through the Internet.

Claims24

Dependent claims

A system comprising:

(a) a message constructor unit, configured to construct a Motorized Electric Shades control message indicating a user command intended to be performed by a Motorized Electric Shades Unit;
wherein construction of said Motorized Electric Shades control message comprises insertion of a Message-Identifier into said Motorized Electric Shades control message;
(b) one or more transmitters, configured to transmit (i) a first copy of said Motorized Electric Shades control message via an HTTPS transmission in which traffic passes through the Internet, and also (ii) a second copy of said Motorized Electric Shades control message via a local Bluetooth communication link in which traffic does not pass through the Internet;
wherein the first copy of said Motorized Electric Shades control message which is transmitted via HTTPS, and the second copy of said Motorized Electric Shades control message which is transmitted via the local Bluetooth communication link, have same said Message-Identifier;
wherein Bluetooth transmission of the second copy of the Motorized Electric Shades control message is performed in a time-slot that is at least partially overlapping with a time slot of HTTPS transmission of the first copy of the Motorized Electric Shades control message.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 18/138,083Filed 23 Apr 2023 · continuation
Priority: 9 Dec 2018
Published: US 2023/0261896 A117 Aug 2023
Granted: 30 Jan 2024
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification16 codes

H04L 12/2816
Home automation networks: controlling appliance services of a home automation network by calling their functionalities
F04D 25/088
The working fluid being air, e.g. for ventilation: ceiling fans
F04D 27/00
Control
H04L 1/1896
Arrangements specially adapted for the transmitter end: aRQ related signaling

Family

Application16/214,079Parent of this continuation · filed 9 Dec 2018
Application16/868,574Parent of this continuation · filed 7 May 2020
US 10,673,646 B1Parent of this continuation · filed 2 Jun 2020
Application17/083,665Parent of this continuation · filed 29 Oct 2020
US 10,848,336 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 24 Nov 2020
Application17/679,167Parent of this continuation · filed 24 Feb 2022
US 11,290,297 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 29 Mar 2022
US 2023/0261896 A1Pre-grant publication · published 17 Aug 2023
US 11,665,014 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2020/0186379 A1Published application
US 2020/0267014 A1Published application
US 2021/0051042 A1Published application
US 2022/0182256 A1Published application
US 11,888,643 B2This patent

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