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US 9,866,403 B2Granted
Leveraging a femtocell network for premises management or monitoring
AssigneeAT&T Mobility II LLC
InventorJoseph Patini
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Abstract
The disclosed subject matter relates to an architecture that can leverage femtocell network infrastructure in order to facilitate premises management or monitoring. In particular, the architecture can leverage the local presence of a home nodeB (HNB) located at a premises associated with a subscriber in order to aggregate, process and/or distribute various state information that can be collected at the premises.
Claims20
A femtocell device, comprising:
- a data structure comprising identifier data comprising:
- a first service area identifier that identifies a first group of femtocell devices that is assigned to the femtocell device in response to a determination that respective locations of the first group of femtocell devices share a common service provided by a first entity that differs from a network service provided by the femtocell device;
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- a second service area identifier that identifies a second group of femtocell devices that is assigned to the femtocell in response to a determination that respective locations of the second group of femtocell devices share a common service provided by a second entity that differs from the network service provided the femtocell device;
- a processor;
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- a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:
- receiving, from a sensor device, state data indicative of a state of a premises at which the femtocell device is situated;
- via a communication path of first nodes comprising first network devices of a communication network and second nodes comprising second network devices of a femtocell network, receiving, from a first network device of the first network devices of the communication network, request data indicative of a request for the state data, wherein the communication network is not the femtocell network, and wherein the second network devices comprise a femtocell network gateway device and the femtocell device;
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- in response to the receiving the request data, transmitting the state data to the first network device via the communication path.
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A femtocell device, comprising:
- a data structure comprising identifier data comprising:
- a first service area identifier that identifies a first group of femtocell devices that is assigned in response to a determination that respective locations of the first group of femtocell devices share a first service provided by a first entity that differs from a network service provided by the femtocell device;
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- a second service area identifier that identifies a second group of femtocell devices that is assigned in response to a determination that respective locations of the second group of femtocell devices share a second service provided by a second entity that differs from the network service provided by the femtocell device, wherein the second entity differs from the first entity;
- a processor;
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- a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:
- via a communication path that traverses first network devices of a communication network and second network devices of a femtocell network, receiving, from a different device of the communication network, instruction data indicative of an instruction to modify a state of a premises at which the femtocell device is situated, wherein the communication network is not the femtocell network, and wherein the second network devices comprise a femtocell network gateway device and the femtocell device;
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- in response to the receiving the instruction data, transmitting, to a control device that controls the state of the premises, control data indicative of the instruction.
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A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:
- receiving, from a sensor device, state data indicative of a state of a premises at which a femtocell device is situated;
- by way of a communication path comprising first nodes representing first network devices of a communication network and comprising second nodes representing second network devices of a femtocell network, receiving, from a device of the communication network, request data indicative of a request for the state data, wherein the first nodes are not the second nodes, wherein the second network devices comprise a femtocell network gateway device and the femtocell device, wherein the request data comprises:
- a first service area identifier that identifies a first group of femtocell devices that is assigned in response to a determination that the premises is served by a first entity that differs from a network service provider entity that provides the femtocell device:
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- a second service area identifier that identifies a second group of femtocell devices that is assigned in response to a determination that the premises is served by a second entity that differs from the network service provider entity that provides the femtocell device;
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- in response to the receiving the request data, transmitting the state data to the device by way of the communication path.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.