Method and a system for eliciting consent from a user to allow a personal connected object of the user to execute an instruction
Assignee360 of Me, Inc.
InventorPhilippe Miliau Georges LE BERRE
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Abstract
The present document discloses systems and methods which deliver notifications to individuals' personal connected objects to cause a personal connected object to execute given instructions provided that the individual who is authorised to use the personal connected object gives their consent. Embodiments described herein make use of intermediary connected objects to receive the instructions and to further forward the instructions to the personal connected objects via audio-based communications.
Claims15
A method for eliciting consent from a user to allow a personal connected object of the user to execute an instruction, the method comprising communication of the instruction to said personal connected object, said communication including:
- receiving at one or more predetermined electronically addressable intermediary connected objects located at one or more target environments, via an electronic communication channel, an audio tag comprising:
- an audio encoded notification comprising the instruction;
- and
- an audio encoded alert sound;
- decoding and playing the audio tag by the intermediary connected object, thus propagating an audio signal towards the personal connected object over a propagation path in the target environment, the audio signal comprising an audible component and an inaudible component as perceivable by a person located within the propagation path, the audible component comprising the alert sound and the inaudible component comprising the audio encoded notification;
- receiving the propagated audio signal by a microphone of the personal connected object;
- recognizing, by the personal connected object, that the audio signal comprises an audio tag or that the audio signal comprises an audio encoded alert sound;
- arranging, by the personal connected object, for the instruction within the audio encoded notification in the audio tag to be obtained;
- presenting, by the personal connected object, the instruction to the user for the user to provide said consent.
A propagating audio signal comprising an audible component and an inaudible component as perceivable by a person located within a propagation path along which the audio signal propagates, the audible component comprising an alert sound, the inaudible component comprising an audio encoded notification comprising an instruction executable by a processor.
A system for eliciting consent from a user to allow a personal connected object of the user to execute an instruction, the personal connected object comprising a microphone, the system comprising an intermediary connected object and a notification server, the intermediary connected object having a speaker, the intermediary connected object being configured to receive an audio tag from the notification server via an electronic communication channel, the audio tag comprising:
- an audio encoded notification comprising the instruction;
- and
- an audio encoded alert sound;
- wherein:
- the intermediary connected object is configured to play the audio tag, thus propagating an audio signal towards the personal connected object, the audio encoded alert sound being audible within the audio signal and the audio encoded notification being inaudible within the audio signal;
- and
- the personal connected object is configured to recognize that the audio signal comprises the audio encoded notification and to obtain the instruction encoded within the audio encoded notification and to seek the consent from the user of the personal connected object to execute the instruction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.