# US 12,120,120 B2 · Wi-Fi multiple access point—biometric based improvements

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- Number: US 12,120,120 B2
- Document ID: US12120120B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 17/405,575
- Filed: 2021-08-18
- Published: 2022-03-10
- Granted: 2024-10-15
- Earliest claimed: 2020-09-08
- Assignees: ARRIS Enterprises LLC
- Applicants: ARRIS Enterprises LLC
- Inventors: Krishna Prasad Panje; Emerson Yesupatham
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12120120B2

## CPC

- H04L 63/0861: {using biometrical features, e.g. fingerprint, retina-scan (cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication using biological data H04L9/3231)}
- H04L 63/101: {Access control lists [ACL]}
- H04W 4/023: {using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds}
- H04W 12/088: using filters or firewalls
- H04W 12/63: Location-dependent; Proximity-dependent
- H04W 84/12: WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]
- H04L: TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M)
- H04W: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (broadcast communication H04H; communication systems using wireless links for non-selective communication, e.g. wireless extensions H04M1/72)

## Abstract

A user environment is controlled and altered based on one or more user conditions received from a biometric tracking services associated with a biometric device of a user. A user can set up a user profile that includes one or more user preferences including a biometric parameter, an asset parameter, a biometric service parameter and/or a location parameter. Based on the user preferences a user device and/or an access point device can control the user environment by altering one or more assets of one or more network devices specified by any one or more user preferences. The asset state of an asset can be altered based on one or more user conditions associated with a biometric parameter such that the user environment is automatically altered based on monitoring the one or more user conditions so as to provide the user an enhanced user environment experience.

## Claims

### Claim 1

An access point device of a network for controlling a user environment of a user, the access point device comprising:
a memory storing one or more computer-readable instructions;
a processor configured to execute the one or more computer-readable instructions to:
receive, via a wireless fidelity (WiFi) connection, a query from a biometric monitoring application of a user device, wherein the query is related to a biometric tracking service associated with a biometric device, and wherein the biometric device is being worn by the user;
send, via a broadband connection, the query to the biometric tracking service;
in response to sending the query to the biometric tracking service, receive, via the broadband connection, one or more current user conditions from the biometric tracking service, wherein the one or more current user conditions are obtained from the biometric device, and the one or more current user conditions are associated with the user of the user device;
send, via the Wi-Fi connection, the one or more current user conditions to the biometric monitoring application of the user device;
receive, via the Wi-Fi connection, a request from the biometric monitoring application of the user device of the network, to control the user environment of the user, wherein the request is based, at least in part, on the one or more current user conditions, a location parameter, and one or more user preferences of the user, wherein the one or more user preferences associated with one or more assets of one or more network devices; and
in response to receiving the request, control, via the Wi-Fi connection, the user environment based, at least in part, on the request, wherein controlling the user environment comprises:
altering an asset state of at least one of the one or more assets at any of the one or more network devices coupled to the network, the user device, or a combination thereof.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The access point device of claim 1, wherein the controlling the user environment comprises:
adding to a blacklist at least one of the one or more network devices, the user device or a combination thereof associated with the at least one of the one or more assets so as to deny access to one or more of the one or more assets.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The access point device of claim 1, wherein each of the one or more assets is associated with one or more asset types, wherein the altering the asset state comprises:
monitoring the network for data associated with the one or more asset types; and
preventing transmission of the data associated with the one or more asset types to any of the user device, the one or more network devices, or a combination thereof.

### Claim 4 (depends on 3)

The access point device of claim 3, wherein the request comprises the location parameter, and wherein the preventing transmission of the data associated with the one or more asset types to any of the user device, the one or more network devices, or both is based, at least in part, on the location parameter.

### Claim 5 (depends on 4)

The access point device of claim 4, wherein the location parameter comprises any of a specified area, a proximity to the access point device, a proximity to the user device, a type of connection, or any combination thereof, and wherein the preventing transmission of the data comprises:
detecting at least one of the one or more network devices, the user device or a combination thereof based, at least in part, on the location parameter.

### Claim 6 (depends on 4)

The access point device of claim 4, wherein the location parameter comprises a connection type and wherein the preventing transmission of the data comprises:
determining which of the one or more network devices, the user device or a combination thereof are connected via Wi-Fi to the network.

### Claim 7 (depends on 1)

The access point device of claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to execute one or more further computer-readable instructions to:
receive an update request from the biometric monitoring application to alter the asset state, wherein the update request is based, at least in part, on one or more updated user conditions; and
wherein the controlling the user environment is based, at least in part, on the one or more updated user conditions.

### Claim 8

A method for an access point device of a network to control a user environment of a user, the method being performed by the access point device comprising:
receiving, via a wireless fidelity (WiFi) connection, a query from a biometric monitoring application of a user device, wherein the query is related to a biometric tracking service associated with a biometric device, and wherein the biometric device is being worn by the user;
sending, via a broadband connection, the query to the biometric tracking service;
in response to the sending the query to the biometric tracking service, receiving, via the broadband connection, one or more current user conditions from the biometric tracking service, wherein the one or more current user conditions are obtained from the biometric device, and wherein the one or more current user conditions are associated with the user of the user device;
sending, via the WiFi connection, the one or more current user conditions to the biometric monitoring application of the user device;
receiving, via the WiFi connection, a request from the biometric monitoring application of the user device of the network, to control the user environment of the user, wherein the request is based, on the one or more current user conditions, a location parameter, and one or more user preferences of the user, wherein the one or more user preferences associated with one or more assets of one or more network devices; and
in response to the receiving the request, controlling, via the WiFi connection, the user environment based, at least in part, on the request, wherein controlling the user environment comprises:
altering an asset state of at least one of the one or more assets at any of the one or more network devices coupled to the network, the user device, or a combination thereof.

### Claim 9 (depends on 8)

The method of claim 8, wherein the controlling the user environment comprises:
adding to a blacklist at least one of the one or more network devices, the user device or a combination thereof associated with the at least one of the one or more assets so as to deny access to one or more of the one or more assets.

### Claim 10 (depends on 8)

The method of claim 8, wherein each of the one or more assets is associated with one or more asset types, wherein the altering the asset state comprises:
monitoring the network for data associated with the one or more asset types; and
preventing transmission of the data associated with the one or more asset types to any of the user device, the one or more network devices, or a combination thereof.

### Claim 11 (depends on 10)

The method of claim 10, wherein the request comprises the location parameter, and wherein the preventing transmission of the data associated with the one or more asset types to any of the user device, the one or more network devices, or both is based, at least in part, on the location parameter.

### Claim 12 (depends on 11)

The method of claim 11, wherein the location parameter comprises any of a specified area, a proximity to the access point device, a proximity to the user device, a type of connection, or any combination thereof, and wherein the preventing transmission of the data comprises:
detecting at least one of the one or more network devices, the user device or a combination thereof based, at least in part, on the location parameter.

### Claim 13 (depends on 11)

The method of claim 11, wherein the location parameter comprises a connection type and wherein the preventing transmission of the data comprises:
determining which of the one or more network devices, the user device or a combination thereof are connected via Wi-Fi to the network.

### Claim 14 (depends on 8)

The method of claim 8, further comprising:
receiving an update request from the biometric monitoring application to alter the asset state, wherein the update request is based, at least in part, on one or more updated user conditions; and
wherein the controlling the user environment is based, at least in part, on the one or more updated user conditions.

### Claim 15

A non-transitory computer-readable medium of an access point device, the non-transitory computer-readable medium storing one or more computer executable instructions to control a user environment of a user, which when executed by a processor of the access point device, cause the access point device to perform operations comprising:
receiving, via a wireless fidelity (WiFi) connection, a query from a biometric monitoring application of a user device, wherein the query is related to a biometric tracking service associated with a biometric device, and wherein the biometric device is being worn by the user;
sending, via a broadband connection, the query to the biometric tracking service;
in response to the sending the query to the biometric tracking service, receiving, via the broadband connection, one or more current user conditions from the biometric tracking service, wherein the one or more current user conditions are obtained from the biometric device, and wherein the one or more current user conditions are associated with the user of the user device;
sending, via the WiFi connection, the one or more current user conditions to the biometric monitoring application of the user device;
receiving, via the WiFi connection, a request from the biometric monitoring application of the user device of the network, to control the user environment of the user, wherein the request is based on the one or more current user conditions, a location parameter, and one or more user preferences, of the user, wherein the one or more user preferences associated with one or more assets of one or more network devices; and
in response to the receiving the request, controlling, via the WiFi connection, the user environment based, at least in part, on the request, wherein controlling the user environment comprises:
altering an asset state of at least one of the one or more assets at any of the one or more network devices coupled to the network, the user device, or a combination thereof.

### Claim 16 (depends on 15)

The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15, wherein the controlling the user environment comprises:
adding to a blacklist at least one of the one or more network devices, the user device or a combination thereof associated with the at least one of the one or more assets so as to deny access to one or more of the one or more assets.

### Claim 17 (depends on 15)

The method non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15, wherein each of the one or more assets is associated with one or more asset types, wherein the altering the asset state comprises:
monitoring the network for data associated with the one or more asset types; and
preventing transmission of the data associated with the one or more asset types to any of the user device, the one or more network devices, or a combination thereof.

### Claim 18 (depends on 17)

The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 17, wherein the request comprises the location parameter, and wherein the preventing transmission of the data associated with the one or more asset types to any of the user device, the one or more network devices, or both is based, at least in part, on the location parameter.

### Claim 19 (depends on 18)

The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 18, wherein the location parameter comprises any of a connection type, a specified area, a proximity to the access point device, a proximity to the user device, a type of connection, or any combination thereof, and wherein at least one:
detecting at least one of the one or more network devices, the user device or a combination thereof based, at least in part, on the location parameter; and
determining which of the one or more network devices, the user device or a combination thereof are connected via Wi-Fi to the network.

### Claim 20 (depends on 15)

The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15, wherein the one or more computer executable instructions, which when executed by the processor, further cause the access point device to perform one or more further operations comprising:
receiving an update request from the biometric monitoring application to alter the asset state, wherein the update request is based, at least in part, on one or more updated user conditions; and
wherein the controlling the user environment is based, at least in part, on the one or more updated user conditions.