US 9,866,308 B1 · Composite WiFi and acoustic spatial diagnostics for smart home management

Abstract

A wireless transceiver including: an array of antennas; a plurality of transmit and receive path components; an array of microphones; a composite spatial diagnostic circuit and a rule execution circuit. The plurality of components form transmit and receive paths coupled to the array of antennas for processing wireless communications. The composite spatial diagnostic circuit couples to the array of antennas and to the array of microphones to successively sample respectively a WiFi environment and an acoustic environment surrounding the wireless transceiver and to determine from each set of WiFi and acoustic samples a composite spatial map of humans and wireless transceivers within the surrounding environment. The rule execution circuit executes an action proscribed by a selected rule when a related portion of the composite spatial map sampled by the composite spatial diagnostic circuit exhibits a correlation above a threshold amount with a spatial context condition associated with the selected rule.

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Dependent claims

A wireless transceiver for wireless communications on a wireless local area network (WLAN);

and the wireless transceiver comprising:
a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) array of antennas;
a plurality of components coupled to one another to form transmit and receive paths coupled to the array of antennas for processing wireless communications;
an array of microphones
a composite spatial diagnostic circuit coupled to array of antennas via the plurality of components and to the array of microphones to successively sample respectively a WiFi environment and an acoustic environment surrounding the wireless transceiver and to determine from each set of WiFi and acoustic samples a composite spatial map of at least one of humans or wireless transceivers within the surrounding environment;
and
a rule execution circuit coupled to the composite spatial diagnostic circuit to execute an action proscribed by a selected rule when a related portion of the composite spatial map sampled by the composite spatial diagnostic circuit exhibits a correlation above a threshold amount with a spatial context condition associated with the selected rule.

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A method for operating a wireless transceiver for wireless communications on a wireless local area network (WLAN);

and the method comprising the acts of:
providing a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) array of antennas;
providing a plurality of components coupled to one another to form transmit and receive paths coupled to the array of antennas for processing wireless communications;
providing an array of microphones;
successively sampling a WiFi and an acoustic environment surrounding the wireless transceiver;
generating a composite spatial map of at least one of humans or wireless transceivers within the surrounding environment from each set of WiFi and acoustic samples provided in the sampling act;
and
executing an action proscribed by a selected rule when a related portion of the composite spatial map generated in the generating act exhibits a correlation above a threshold amount with a spatial context condition associated with the selected rule.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Composite WiFi and acoustic spatial diagnostics for smart home management

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Composite WiFi and acoustic spatial diagnostics for smart home management

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Abstract

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