US 2020/0267014 A1Published application

System, Device, and Method of 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.

Claims18

Dependent claims

A method comprising:

(a) constructing in an electronic device of a user, a Ceiling Fan control message indicating a user command intended to be conveyed by a Home Automation Device (HAD) of said user to a Ceiling Fan of said user and intended to be performed by said Ceiling Fan;
wherein the constructing comprises:
inserting into said Ceiling Fan control message a Message-Identifier;
(b) transmitting concurrently, from said electronic device of the user, to said HAD of the user:
(i) a first copy of said Ceiling Fan control message via an HTTPS transmission in which traffic passes through the Internet, and (ii) a second copy of said Ceiling Fan control message via a direct local Bluetooth transmission between the electronic device of the user and the HAD of the user, in which traffic does not pass through the Internet;
wherein the first copy of said Ceiling Fan control message which is transmitted via HTTPS, and the second copy of said Ceiling Fan control message which is transmitted via Bluetooth, have same said Message-Identifier;
wherein the Bluetooth transmission of the second copy of the Ceiling Fan control message is performed in a time-slot that is at least partially overlapping with a time slot of the HTTPS transmission of the first copy of the Ceiling Fan control message.

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A method comprising:

(a) constructing in an electronic device of a user, a Ceiling Fan control message indicating a user command intended to be conveyed by a Home Automation Device (HAD) of said user to a Ceiling Fan of said user and intended to be performed by said Ceiling Fan;
wherein the constructing comprises:
inserting into said Ceiling Fan control message a Message-Identifier;
(b) transmitting concurrently, from said electronic device of the user, to said HAD of the user:
(i) a first copy of said Ceiling Fan control message via an HTTPS transmission, and (ii) a second copy of said Ceiling Fan control message via an MQTT transmission;
wherein the first copy of said Ceiling Fan control message which is transmitted via HTTPS, and the second copy of said Ceiling Fan control message which is transmitted via MQTT, have same said Message-Identifier;
wherein the MQTT transmission of the second copy of the Ceiling Fan control message is performed in a time-slot that is at least partially overlapping with a time slot of the HTTPS transmission of the first copy of the Ceiling Fan control message.

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A method comprising:

(a) constructing in an electronic device of a user, a Ceiling Fan control message indicating a user command intended to be conveyed by a Home Automation Device (HAD) of said user to a Ceiling Fan of said user and intended to be performed by said Ceiling Fan;
wherein the constructing comprises:
inserting into said Ceiling Fan control message a Message-Identifier;
(b) transmitting concurrently, from said electronic device of the user, to said HAD of the user:
(i) a first copy of said Ceiling Fan control message via a Bluetooth transmission, and (ii) a second copy of said Ceiling Fan control message via an MQTT transmission;
wherein the first copy of said Ceiling Fan control message which is transmitted via Bluetooth, and the second copy of said Ceiling Fan control message which is transmitted via MQTT, have same said Message-Identifier;
wherein the MQTT transmission of the second copy of the Ceiling Fan control message is performed in a time-slot that is at least partially overlapping with a time slot of the Bluetooth transmission of the first copy of the Ceiling Fan control message.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/868,574Filed 7 May 2020
Priority: 9 Dec 2018
Published: 20 Aug 2020
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

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