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Location monitor and device cloning

AssigneeEchostar Technologies International Corporation

InventorDaniel Wilson

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Abstract

Embodiments described herein provide various techniques for monitoring electronic devices at various locations, and cloning behaviors of specific electronic devices across locations and times. Device monitor and control systems may be configured to detect changes in the operational settings of electronic devices at monitored locations, and to transmit control signals to control corresponding electronic devices at other locations. In some cases, separate device monitor and control systems may operate at different locations, where each system may monitor and control a set of local devices and communicate device status detection signals, control signals, and the like to other device monitor and control systems at other locations. In some examples, central device monitor and control systems may operate at network hubs, such as satellite base stations, cable head-ends, and/or central computer servers, to coordinate the device monitoring and cloning of device behaviors between multiple locations.

A device monitor and control system comprising:

a first device monitor located at a first structure having a first location, wherein the first device monitor is in communication with a first plurality of devices located at the first structure;
a second device monitor located at a second structure having a second location, wherein:
the second device monitor is in communication with a second plurality of devices located at the second structure;
and
the second structure is distinct from the first structure;
a server system, the server system comprising:
a processing unit comprising one or more processors;
a network interface configured to receive signals from the first device monitor and the second device monitor;
and
a memory coupled with and readable by the processing unit and storing therein a set of instructions which, when executed by the processing unit, causes the server system to:
receive a device status detection signal via the network interface from the first device monitor, the device status detection signal including a device identifier of a first device of the first plurality of devices at the first structure and an operational status data for the first device;
determine a first ambient light measurement at the first structure corresponding to the device status detection signal;
determine a time at which an ambient light measurement at the second structure equals the first ambient light measurement;
determine a second device identifier based on the device identifier of the first device, the second device identifier corresponding to a second device of the second plurality of devices located at the second structure;
determine one or more operational settings for the second device, based on the operational status data for the first device;
and
transmit a control signal for controlling the second device to the second device monitor at the second structure at the determined time, the control signal including the second device identifier and data corresponding to the operational settings for the second device.

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Application

14/832,821Filed 21 Aug 2015

Published

US 2017/0054615 A123 Feb 2017

Granted

1 May 2018

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Classification15 codes

H04L 43/0817
By checking availability: by checking functioning
H04L 67/125
Specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or…:…
H04L 67/52
Network services: specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
H04W 4/029
Services making use of location information: location-based management or tracking services

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