# US 12,192,283 B2 · System and method for server based control > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 12,192,283 B2 - Document ID: US12192283B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 16/874,700 - Filed: 2020-05-15 - Published: 2020-09-03 - Granted: 2025-01-07 - Earliest claimed: 2012-01-09 - Assignees: May Patents Ltd. - Applicants: May Patents Ltd. - Inventors: Yehuda Binder; Benjamin Maytal - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12192283B2 ## CPC - H04L 67/12: specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks - G07C 3/02: Registering or indicating working or idle time only - B60K 31/00: Vehicle fittings, acting on a single sub-unit only, for automatically controlling vehicle speed, i.e. preventing speed from exceeding an arbitrarily established velocity or maintaining speed at a particular velocity, as selected by the vehicle operator - B60K 31/18: including a device to audibly, visibly, or otherwise signal the existence of unusual or unintended speed - B60Y 2200/11: Passenger cars; Automobiles - B60Y 2200/12: Motorcycles, Trikes; Quads; Scooters - B60Y 2200/126: Scooters - B60Y 2200/13: Bicycles; Tricycles - B60Y 2200/30: Railway vehicles - B60Y 2200/40: Special vehicles - B60Y 2200/50: Aeroplanes, Helicopters - B60Y 2200/90: Vehicles comprising electric prime movers - G06Q 2240/00: Transportation facility access, e.g. fares, tolls or parking - G07C 5/008: {communicating information to a remotely located station (transmission systems for measured values G08C)} - G08G 1/00: Traffic control systems for road vehicles (arrangement of road signs or traffic signals E01F9/00 {; automatic vehicle control B62D}) - Y04S 40/18: Network protocols supporting networked applications, e.g. including control of end-device applications over a network - H04L: TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) - G07C: TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS; REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES; GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS; VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS; ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE - B60K: ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PROPULSION UNITS OR OF TRANSMISSIONS IN VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PLURAL DIVERSE PRIME-MOVERS IN VEHICLES; AUXILIARY DRIVES FOR VEHICLES; INSTRUMENTATION OR DASHBOARDS FOR VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH COOLING, AIR INTAKE, GAS EXHAUST OR FUEL SUPPLY OF PROPULSION UNITS IN VEHICLES - B60Y: INDEXING SCHEME RELATING TO ASPECTS CROSS-CUTTING VEHICLE TECHNOLOGY - G06Q: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR - G08G: TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS (guiding railway traffic, ensuring the safety of railway traffic B61L; arrangement of road signs or traffic signals E01F9/00; radar or analogous systems, sonar systems, lidar systems specially adapted for traffic control G01S13/91, G01S15/88, G01S17/88; {radar or analogous systems, sonar systems, lidar systems specially adapted for anti-collision purposes G01S13/93, G01S15/93, G01S17/93}) - Y04S: SYSTEMS INTEGRATING TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO POWER NETWORK OPERATION, COMMUNICATION OR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR IMPROVING THE ELECTRICAL POWER GENERATION, TRANSMISSION, DISTRIBUTION, MANAGEMENT OR USAGE, i.e. SMART GRIDS ## 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. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A method for voice control of a motion actuator and an electric light source in a battery-operated device, the device is configured to communicate with an Internet-connected server via a first wireless network, the method comprising: producing, by a sensor, sensor data in response to a first physical phenomenon; capturing, by a microphone in the device, human voice data; transmitting, by a first transceiver via a first antenna in the device to the server via the first wireless network over the Internet, the captured human voice data; processing, by a processor in the server, the transmitted captured human voice data; receiving, by the first transceiver via the first antenna in the device from the server from the first wireless network over the Internet, a second data that is in response to the processing; causing, by the motion actuator in the device, a linear or rotary motion in response to the received second data and to the sensor data; emitting, by the electric light source in the device, a visible light for illumination or indication in response to the received second data and to the sensor data; receiving, by a second transceiver via a second antenna over a second wireless network that is distinct from the first wireless network, a third data; causing, by the motion actuator in the device, a linear or rotary motion in response to the received third data; and directly or indirectly affecting, changing, producing, by an actuator, the first physical phenomenon, wherein the first physical phenomenon comprises a temperature, humidity, pressure, audio, vibration, sound, proximity, or flow rate. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein the processing comprises performing a voice recognition algorithm. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The method according to claim 2, wherein the voice recognition algorithm is operative for identifying a voice of a specific person. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein the sensor is a thermoelectric sensor that responds to the temperature or to a temperature gradient of an object using conduction, convection, or radiation, or wherein the sensor is a photoelectric sensor that responds to a visible or an invisible light or gamma rays. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein the device comprises multiple microphones, and wherein the capturing comprises capturing, by the multiple microphones in the device, the human voice data. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The method according to claim 5, wherein the multiple microphones are arranged as a directional microphones array operative to estimate a number, magnitude, frequency, Direction-Of-Arrival (DOA), distance, or speed of a phenomenon impinging the microphones array. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein the microphone is an omnidirectional, unidirectional, or bidirectional microphone that is based on sensing an incident sound-based motion of a diaphragm or a ribbon, or wherein the microphone comprises a condenser, an electret, a dynamic, a ribbon, a carbon, or a piezoelectric microphone. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein the device further comprises a sounder for converting an electrical energy to an omnidirectional, unidirectional, or bidirectional pattern emitted, audible or inaudible, sound waves. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The method according to claim 8, wherein the sounder comprises an electromagnetic loudspeaker, a piezoelectric speaker, an electrostatic loudspeaker (ESL), a ribbon or planar magnetic loudspeaker, or a bending wave loudspeaker, or wherein the sounder comprises an electric bell, a buzzer, a chime, a whistle, or a ringer. ### Claim 10 (depends on 8) The method according to claim 8, wherein the method further comprising playing, by the sounder, a digital audio content that is pre-recorded or synthesized in response to the processing. ### Claim 11 (depends on 8) The method according to claim 8, wherein the method further comprising simulating, by the sounder, a voice of a human being or generating music, or wherein the method further comprising sounding of a syllable, a word, a phrase, a sentence, a short story, or a long story, using a male or female voice. ### Claim 12 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein the Internet-connected server communicates with the device over the first wireless network, and wherein the receiving comprises receiving from the server over the Internet, and the transmitting comprises transmitting to the server over the Internet. ### Claim 13 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein the device is addressable in the first wireless network or the Internet using a digital address stored in a volatile or non-volatile memory for uniquely identifying the respective device in the first wireless network or in the Internet. ### Claim 14 (depends on 13) The method according to claim 13, wherein the digital address is a Media Access Control (MAC) layer address that is MAC-48, Extended Unique Identifier (EUI) EUI-48, or EUI-64 address type or wherein the digital address is a layer 3 address and is static or dynamic Internet Protocol (IP) address that is IPV4 or IPv6 type address. ### Claim 15 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein the first wireless network is a Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN), that is according to, or based on, Bluetooth™ or Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.15.1-2005 standards, or wherein the WPAN is a wireless control network that is according to, or based on, Zigbee™, IEEE 802.15.4-2003, or Z-Wave™ standards. ### Claim 16 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein the first wireless network is a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) that is according to, or based on, IEEE 802.11-2012, IEEE 802.11a, IEEE 802.11b, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) IEEE 802.11g, IEEE 802.11n, or IEEE 802.11ac standard. ### Claim 17 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein the first wireless network uses a wireless communication over a licensed or an unlicensed radio frequency band, that is an Industrial, Scientific and Medical (ISM) radio band. ### Claim 18 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein the first wireless network is a cellular telephone network that is a Third Generation (3G) network that uses a Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS), Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (W-CDMA), High Speed Packet Access (HSPA), Time-Division Duplexing (TDD), CDMA2000 1×RIT, Evolution-Data Optimized (EV-DO), or Global System for Mobile communications (GSM), Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE) EDGE-Evolution, or wherein the cellular telephone network is a Fourth Generation (4G) network that uses an 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. ### Claim 19 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein the first data comprises at least part of the captured human voice data. ### Claim 20 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein the causing of the linear or rotary motion is further in response to the second data. ### Claim 21 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein the emitting of the visible light is further in response to the second data. ### Claim 22 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein the motion actuator comprises, or consists of, an electrical motor. ### Claim 23 (depends on 22) The method according to claim 22, wherein the electrical motor comprises, or consists of, a brushed, a brushless, or an uncommutated DC motor, or wherein the DC motor is a stepper motor that is a Permanent Magnet (PM) motor, a Variable reluctance (VR) motor, or a hybrid synchronous stepper. ### Claim 24 (depends on 22) The method according to claim 22, wherein the electrical motor comprises, or consists of, a piezoelectric motor, a Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) motor, a Squiggle motor, an ultrasonic motor, or a micro- or nanometer comb-drive capacitive actuator, a Dielectric or Ionic based Electroactive Polymers (EAPs) actuator, a solenoid, a thermal bimorph, or a piezoelectric unimorph actuator. ### Claim 25 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein the device further comprises an additional electric light source that emits a non-visible light that is infrared, ultraviolet, X-rays, or gamma rays. ### Claim 26 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein the electric light source comprises a Solid-State Lighting (SSL), a Light Emitting Diode (LED), an Organic LED (OLED), a polymer LED (PLED), or a laser diode.