US 2025/0097066 A1Published application

System, Device, and Method for Controlling Motorized Awnings, Motorized Canopies, Motorized Screens, Louvered Pergolas, and other Electric Motorized Shading Devices

OwnerZohar Shinar, Christopher Andrew Merck +2inventors

InventorsZohar Shinar, Christopher Andrew Merck, Joao Ricardo Mattos e Silva, Marcio Granzotto Rodrigues

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Abstract

System, device, and method of controlling a Shading Device via multi-path wireless communication. The shading device is one of: electrically retractable awning or canopy; electrically foldable awning or canopy; electrically motorized window screen; electrically motorized louvered pergola. A method includes: constructing a Shading Device control message with a unique Message Identifier; and wirelessly transmitting two copies of the same Shading Device control message to the Shading Device over two communication links with at least partial timing concurrency. The two copies of the Shading Device control message are wirelessly transmitted to the Shading Device over Bluetooth and HTTPS, or over Bluetooth and MQTT, or over HTTPS and MQTT; or concurrently via at least two different wireless communications channels that include: (i) a first wireless communication channel that includes passage of traffic through the Internet, and (ii) a second, local, Internet-excluding, wireless communication channel in which no traffic passes through the Internet.

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Dependent claims

A system comprising:

(a) a message constructor unit, configured to construct a Shading Device control message indicating a user command intended to be performed by a Shading Device,
wherein the Shading Device is selected from the group consisting of:
electrically retractable awning,
electrically foldable awning,
electrically retractable canopy,
electrically foldable canopy,
electrically motorized window screen,
electrically motorized louvered pergola;
wherein construction of said Shading Device control message comprises insertion of a Message-Identifier into said Shading Device control message;
(b) one or more transmitters, configured to transmit (i) a first copy of said Shading Device control message via an HTTPS transmission in which traffic passes through the Internet, and also (ii) a second copy of said Shading Device control message via a local Bluetooth communication link in which traffic does not pass through the Internet;
wherein the first copy of said Shading Device control message which is transmitted via HTTPS, and the second copy of said Shading Device control message which is transmitted via the local Bluetooth communication link, have same said Message-Identifier;
wherein Bluetooth transmission of the second copy of the Shading Device control message is performed in a time-slot that is at least partially overlapping with a time slot of HTTPS transmission of the first copy of the Shading Device control message.

9 more elements

A system comprising:

(a) a message constructor unit, configured to construct a Shading Device control message indicating a user command intended to be performed by a Shading Device,
wherein the Shading Device is selected from the group consisting of:
electrically retractable awning,
electrically foldable awning,
electrically retractable canopy,
electrically foldable canopy,
electrically motorized window screen,
electrically motorized louvered pergola;
wherein construction of said Shading Device control message comprises insertion of a Message-Identifier into said Shading Device control message;
(b) one or more transmitters, configured to transmit (i) a first copy of said Shading Device control message via an HTTPS transmission in which traffic passes through the Internet, and also (ii) a second copy of said Shading Device control message via a Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) communication link;
wherein the first copy of said Shading Device control message which is transmitted via HTTPS, and the second copy of said Shading Device control message which is transmitted via the MQTT communication link, have same said Message-Identifier;
wherein MQTT transmission of the second copy of the Shading Device control message is performed in a time-slot that is at least partially overlapping with a time slot of HTTPS transmission of the first copy of the Shading Device control message.

9 more elements

A system comprising:

(a) a message constructor unit, configured to construct a Shading Device control message indicating a user command intended to be performed by a Shading Device,
wherein the Shading Device is selected from the group consisting of:
electrically retractable awning,
electrically foldable awning,
electrically retractable canopy,
electrically foldable canopy,
electrically motorized window screen,
electrically motorized louvered pergola;
wherein construction of said Shading Device control message comprises insertion of a Message-Identifier into said Shading Device control message;
(b) one or more transmitters, configured to transmit (i) a first copy of said Shading Device control message via a local Bluetooth communication link in which traffic does not pass through the Internet, and also (ii) a second copy of said Shading Device control message via a Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) communication link;
wherein the first copy of said Shading Device control message which is transmitted via the local Bluetooth communication link, and the second copy of said Shading Device control message which is transmitted via the MQTT communication link, have same said Message-Identifier;
wherein MQTT transmission of the second copy of the Shading Device control message is performed in a time-slot that is at least partially overlapping with a time slot of Bluetooth transmission of the first copy of the Shading Device control message.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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Application: 18/964,746Filed 2 Dec 2024
Priority: 9 Dec 2018
Published: 20 Mar 2025
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

H04L 12/2816
Home automation networks: controlling appliance services of a home automation network by calling their functionalities
H04L 1/1896
Arrangements specially adapted for the transmitter end: aRQ related signaling
H04L 5/0055
Allocation of signalling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals: physical resource allocation for ACK/NACK
H04L 67/125
Specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or…:…

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