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US 9,382,739 B1Granted
Determining right or left hand side door installation
AssigneeAugust Home, Inc.
InventorsJason Johnson, Christopher Dow, Shih Yu Thomas Cheng, Thomas Peter Russo, Siddharth Gidwani
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Abstract
A method is provided for determining right or hand side door installation. A drive shaft of the door lock mechanism is rotated with the bolt in a clock wise direction or a counter-clock wise direction. The rotation continues until there is sufficient extension of the bolt to provide for a lock position of an associated door.
Claims19
A method of determining right or hand side door installation, comprising:
- rotating a drive shaft of a door lock mechanism with a bolt in a clock wise direction or a counter-clock wise direction until there is sufficient extension of the bolt to determine a status of a lock position of an associated door at a dwelling, the door lock mechanism including a position sensing device, the position sensing device sensing a position of the drive shaft and assists in locking and unlocking the bolt;
- querying a user of the door lock when the drive shaft is at an end point, wherein the associated door is right hand in-swing, or left hand outswing, installed when the door locks with clock wise rotation and is left hand in-swing, or right hand outswing installed when the door locks with counter clock wise rotation;
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- wherein a mobile device of a user occupant of the dwelling is in communication with the door lock mechanism to provide locking or unlocking of the door, and a non-user occupant third party is allowed controlled access to the dwelling with the non-user occupant third party mobile device when the user occupant grants access rights to the non-user occupant third party, the user being the user occupant of the dwelling or the non-user occupant third party.
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