Google Inc.

Apple Inc.

Nest Labs, Inc.

Keyssa, Inc.

Goolge Inc.

Anthony Michael Fadell

Matthew Lee Rogers

David Hendler Sloo

Yoky Matsuoka

Shigefumi Honjo

Michael Plitkins

John Benjamin Filson

Maxime Veron

Michael James Matas

Fred Bould

Stephen Paul Zadesky

Daniel Adam Warren

Andrew Bart Hodge

Jesse Lee Dorogusker

Hugo Fiennes

Brian Quentin Huppi

Isabel I Guenette

Adam Duckworth Mittleman

Jonathan Alan Dutra

Rangoli Sharan

Scott A McGaraghan

David Bell

Grant Michael Erickson

Edwin H Satterthwaite, Jr

Sophie Le Guen

Ruben Caballero

Emery Artemus Sanford

Stephan Vincent Schell

Andrew Bert Hodge

Ian C Smith

Jeffrey L Robbin

Andrew William Goldenson

Andrea Mucignat

Evan Jarman Fisher

Joseph E Palmer

Jeffrey Alan Boyd

Eric B Daniels

Timo A Bruck

Jeffery Theodore Lee

Stanley Carl Ng

Nicholas Unger Webb

Mark D Stefanski

Jonathan P Ive

Aram M Lindahl

Anthony Joseph Guetta

Michael Nathaniel Rosenblatt

Gloria Lin

Taido Lantz Nakajima

Sean Anthony Mayo

Steve P Jobs

Mark Rajan Malhotra

Jesse William Boettcher

Policarpo Bonilla Wood

Robert E Borchers

William Raeming Dong

John Wesley Archibald

Joseph Adam Ruff

Frank Emmanuel Astier

Christoph Horst Krah

Jay Dare Logue

Mitchell David Adler

Alan Cannistraro

John Gee Tang

Eric Werner Anderson

Daniele De Iuliis

Emily Clark Schubert

Rochus Emanuel Jacob

Zachery Webster Kennedy

Osborne B Hardison

Lee S Mighdoll

Duncan Robert Kerr

Steve Porter Hotelling

Anton M Davydov

Scott P Mullins

Richard J Schultz

Pengtao Yu

Jason Conrad Chamberlain

Ted Stephen Boda

Peter J Kennedy

Imran A Chaudhri

Gregory N Christie

Bas Ording

Thomas M Alsina

Gary Davis McCormack

Mathias W Schmidt

Michael D Dixon

David Tupman

Donald Joseph Novotney

Yash Modi

Roger Dwain Isaac

Sheng-Nan Yu

William E Bull

Joshua A Strickon

Matthew S Rogers

Lawrence G Bolton

Scott Peter Krueger

Timothy Michael Johnson

Gregory Thomas Lydon

Brian Jonathan Conner

Kevin Charles Peterson

Systems and methods of placeshifting media playback between two or more devices are provided. For example, a method for placeshifting media may include downloading onto a first device an index of files accessed or modified on a second device via a data storage server, at least one of the files being a media file played on the second device. The first device may display a user selectable list of the files on the first device before issuing a request for the media file to the data storage server. The data storage server may send the media file to the first device from the data storage server, and the first device may play back the media file where the second device left off.

System and method for placeshifting media playback

Apparatus, systems, methods, and related computer program products for managing demand-response programs and events. The systems disclosed include an energy management system in operation with an intelligent, network-connected thermostat located at a structure. The thermostat controls an HVAC system to cool the structure using a demand response event implementation profile over the demand response event period. The thermostat can also receive a requested change to the setpoint temperatures defined by the demand response event implementation profile and access a determination of an impact on energy shifting that would result if the requested change is incorporated into the demand response event implementation profile. This determination can be communicated to the energy consumer.

Systems, apparatus and methods for managing demand-response programs and events

Various systems and methods related to smart-home networking are presented. A low-power smart home device may be exclusively battery powered. The low-power smart home device may transmit data via a low-power communication protocol to a spokesman smart home device. The spokesman smart home device may receive the data transmitted via the low-power communication protocol. The spokesman smart home device may be a doorbell, a thermostat, a hazard detector, or a wall switch. The spokesman smart home device may connected to household wiring that provides power. The spokesman smart home device may translate the data from the low-power communication protocol to a relatively high-power communication protocol. The spokesman smart home device may transmit the data, via the relatively high-power communication protocol, to a cloud-based server system.

Smart-home environment networking systems and methods

Embodiments provided herein relate to enforcing a device restriction policy. A device restriction policy may be stored that maps one or more portions of a household with particular household occupants of a plurality of household occupants. A request may be received to activate the device restriction policy on a household occupant. The device restriction policy may be activated against the household occupant based on the received request. One or more electronic devices may be disabled that are located in a portion of the household linked with the household occupant based on the received request and the device restriction policy.

Smart-home automation system that suggests or automatically implements selected household policies based on sensed observations

A method includes generating a utility portal interface in response to a request from a utility computer system that receives parameters that specify a demand response event; providing a display of groups of energy-consuming locations that are available to be selected to participate in the demand response event; providing a display of an energy demand profile for the utility during the demand response event; receiving a selection of a subset of the groups of energy-consuming locations to participate in the demand response event; causing the display of the energy demand profile for the utility during the demand response event to be dynamically updated as the subset of the groups of energy-consuming locations are selected or deselected by the utility computer system to participate; and sending transmissions to thermostats associated with the subset of the groups of energy-consuming locations to execute the demand response event.

Utility portals for managing demand-response events

This patent specification relates to various smart-home systems. Such a system may include a battery-powered smart home device that communicates using a first wireless protocol characterized by relatively low power usage and relatively low data rates. Such a system may further include a smart wall outlet device. The smart wall outlet device may include wireless communication circuitry comprising a first wireless interface and a second wireless interface. The first wireless interface may be configured to communicate with the battery-powered smart home device using the first wireless protocol. The second wireless interface may be configured to serve as a communication bridge between the battery-powered smart home device and a wireless network that uses a second communication protocol characterized by relatively higher power usage and relatively higher data rates.

Smart wall switch controller

This application is directed to a home monitoring and control system including a doorbell installed at a door of a home. The doorbell has a button configured to, upon being touched, depressed or activated, wirelessly initiate a first communication to indicate presence of a person at the door. The doorbell also has a camera configured to capture video data within a field of view, and a processor configured to cause a communication component to enable the first communication and wirelessly stream via a remote server the video data captured by the camera to a monitoring device associated with an occupant of the home. A rechargeable battery is coupled to a housing wire and configured to be charged via the housing wire, and the doorbell is configured to charge and discharge the rechargeable battery based on power usage of the doorbell.

Home monitoring and control system

Methods for controlling temperature in a conditioned enclosure such as a dwelling are described that include an 'auto-away' and/or 'auto-arrival' feature for detecting unexpected absences which provide opportunities for significant energy savings through automatic adjustment of the setpoint temperature. According to some preferred embodiments, when no occupancy has been detected for a minimum time interval, an &#x201c;auto-away&#x201d; feature triggers a changes of the state of the enclosure, and the actual operating setpoint temperature is changed to a predetermined energy-saving away-state temperature, regardless of the setpoint temperature indicated by the normal thermostat schedule. The purpose of the &#x201c;auto away&#x201d; feature is to avoid unnecessary heating or cooling when there are no occupants present to actually experience or enjoy the comfort settings of the schedule, thereby saving energy.

Control unit with automatic setback capabtility

This invention is directed to an electronic device with an embedded authentication system for restricting access to device resources. The authentication system may include one or more sensors operative to detect biometric information of a user. The sensors may be positioned in the device such that the sensors may detect appropriate biometric information as the user operates the device, without requiring the user to perform a step for providing the biometric information (e.g., embedding a fingerprint sensor in an input mechanism instead of providing a fingerprint sensor in a separate part of the device housing). In some embodiments, the authentication system may be operative to detect a visual or temporal pattern of inputs to authenticate a user. In response to authenticating, a user may access restricted files, applications (e.g., applications purchased by the user), or settings (e.g., application settings such as contacts or saved game profile).

Embedded authentication systems in an electronic device

An improved portable media device and methods for operating a media device are disclosed. According to one aspect, the portable media device can also function as a solid-state drive for data storage. The form factor of the portable media device can be hand-held or smaller, such that it is highly portable. The portable media device can use one or more status indicators. The portable media device can also include a peripheral bus connector, a rechargeable battery, and one or more input devices. According to another aspect, the portable media device has the capability to store media device status information in persistent memory before powering down. Thereafter, when the portable media device is again powered up, the stored media player status information can be retrieved and utilized. According to still another aspect, the portable media device can form and/or traverse a media asset playlist in an efficient manner.

Status indicators for an electronic device

A user-friendly programmable thermostat is described that includes a body having a central electronic display surrounded by a ring that can be rotated and pressed inwardly to provide user input in a simple and elegant fashion. The current temperature and setpoint temperature are graphically displayed as prominent tick marks over a range of background tick marks on the electronic display. Different colors can be displayed to indicate currently active HVAC functions, and different intensities of colors can be displayed to indicate an amount of heating or cooling required to reach a target temperature. The setpoint temperature for the device can be altered by user rotation of the rotatable ring, and the programmed schedule can be displayed to the user and altered by the user by virtue of rotations and inward pressings of the ring. Initial device set up and installation, the viewing of device operation, the editing of various settings, and the viewing of historical energy usage information are made simple and elegant by virtue of the described form factor, display modalities, and user input modalities of the device.

Thermostat user interface

A user-friendly programmable thermostat is described that includes receiving an immediate-control input to change set point temperature, controlling temperature according to the set point temperature for a predetermined time interval, and then automatically resetting the set point temperature upon the ending of the predetermined time interval such that the user is urged to make further immediate-control inputs. A schedule for the programmable thermostat is automatically generated based on the immediate-control inputs. Methods are also described for receiving user input relating to the user's preference regarding automatically generating a schedule, and determining whether or not to automatically adopt an automatically generated schedule based on the received user input.

Energy efficiency promoting schedule learning algorithms for intelligent thermostat

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Portola Valley, CA, United States of America

Anthony Michael Fadell