In-home event intercom and notifications
AssigneeApple Inc.
InventorKshitij S. Deshpande
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Abstract
Techniques are disclosed for in-home health intercom and notification. In one example, a first device receives a message comprising a description of an event of a first person in an environment from a first user device using a first transmission protocol. The first device detects that the message is an event message. The first device transmits the event message to the second computing device in the environment using a second transmission protocol, where the first device and the second device are in operable communication using a local area network. The first device receives, using the second transmission protocol, a response from the second device that the second computing device has transmitted the event message to a second user device.
Claims20
A computer-implemented method, comprising:
- receiving, by a first computing device, a message comprising a description of an event of a first person in an environment from a first user device and via a first transmission protocol;
- detecting, by the first computing device, that the message is an event message;
- transmitting, by the first computing device, the event message to a second computing device in the environment using a second transmission protocol, the second transmission protocol being used based at least in part on detecting that the message is the event message, the first computing device and the second computing device being in operable communication using a local area network;
- and
- receiving, by the first computing device and using the second transmission protocol, a response from the second computing device indicating that the second computing device has transmitted the event message to a second user device.
A first computing device comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a computer-readable medium including instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
- receiving a message comprising a description of an event of a first person in an environment from a first user device and via a first transmission protocol;
- detecting that the message is an event message;
- transmitting the event message to a second computing device in the environment using a second transmission protocol, the second transmission protocol being used based at least in part on detecting that the message is the event message, the first computing device and the second computing device being in operable communication using a local area network;
- and
- receiving, using the second transmission protocol, a response from the second computing device indicating that the second computing device has transmitted the event message to a second user device.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon a sequence of instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
- receiving a message comprising a description of an event of a first person in an environment from a first user device and via a first transmission protocol;
- detecting that the message is an event message;
- transmitting the event message to a second computing device in the environment using a second transmission protocol, the second transmission protocol being used based at least in part on detecting that the message is the event message, a first computing device and the second computing device being in operable communication using a local area network;
- and
- receiving, using the second transmission protocol, a response from the second computing device indicating that the second computing device has transmitted the event message to a second user device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.