US 12,526,369 B2Granted

Wireless registration of devices with and handling of profiles in an intercom system

AssigneeRobert Bosch GmbH

InventorsJames Richard Andersen, Jason Larry Brchan, Jeffrey Brede, David Sean McKinnon, Kevin Brian Moore

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Abstract

An intercom system including an intercom network, a user panel, and a wireless access point. The user panel includes a user panel wireless transceiver, a user panel short range communication transceiver, and a user panel electronic controller. The wireless access point communicatively coupled with the intercom network via a first intercom interface, the wireless access point includes an access point wireless transceiver, an access point short range communication transceiver, and an access point electronic controller. The access point electronic controller receives a user input to begin a registration mode, detects a first beacon signal via the access point short range communication transceiver, determines whether the user panel has matching characteristics with the wireless access point, initiates a first wireless connection between the access point short range communication transceiver and the user panel short range communication transceiver, exchanges identification information, and registers the user panel to the intercom network.

Claims19

Dependent claims

An intercom system, the system comprising:

an intercom network;
a user panel including
a user panel wireless transceiver configured to establish wireless communications;
a user panel short range communication transceiver configured to establish wireless communications;
a user panel electronic controller communicatively coupled to the user panel wireless transceiver and the user panel short range communication transceiver;
a wireless access point communicatively coupled with the intercom network via a first intercom interface, the wireless access point including
an access point wireless transceiver configured to establish wireless communications;
an access point short range communication transceiver configured to establish wireless communications;
an access point electronic controller communicatively coupled to the access point wireless transceiver and the access point short range communication transceiver, the access point electronic controller configured to
receive a user input, via the first intercom interface, to begin a registration mode;
detect a first beacon signal via the access point short range communication transceiver from the user panel short range communication transceiver;
determine whether the user panel has matching characteristics with the wireless access point;
initiate a first wireless connection between the access point short range communication transceiver and the user panel short range communication transceiver in response to determining that the user panel has matching characteristics with the wireless access point;
exchange identification information between the access point short range communication transceiver and the user panel short range communication transceiver;
and
register the user panel to the intercom network.

13 more elements

A method for registering a user panel to an intercom system via a wireless access point, the user panel including a user panel wireless transceiver, a user panel short range communication transceiver, and a user panel electronic controller, the wireless access point including an access point wireless transceiver, an access point short range communication transceiver, and an access point electronic controller, the method comprising:

receiving a user input, via the access point electronic controller, to begin a registration mode;
detecting, via the access point electronic controller, a first beacon signal at the access point short range communication transceiver from the user panel short range communication transceiver;
determining, via the access point electronic controller, whether the user panel has matching characteristics with the wireless access point;
initiating, via the access point electronic controller, a first wireless connection between the access point short range communication transceiver and the user panel short range communication transceiver in response to determining that the user panel has matching characteristics with the wireless access point;
exchanging, via the access point electronic controller, identification information between the access point short range communication transceiver and the user panel short range communication transceiver;
and
registering, via the access point electronic controller, the user panel to an intercom network.

4 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 18/344,256Filed 29 Jun 2023
Published: US 2025/0008024 A12 Jan 2025
Granted: 13 Jan 2026
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification11 codes

H04M 11/02
Telephonic communication systems specially adapted for combination with other electrical systems: with bell or annunciator systems
H04W 4/80
Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor: services using short range communication, e.g. near-field…
H04W 48/20
Access restriction ; Network selection; Access point selection: selecting an access point
H04W 60/00
Affiliation to network