Brilliant Home Technology, Inc.

Brilliant Nextgen, Inc.

Jeremy Hiatt

Steven Stanek

Aaron T Emigh

Ashley Chou

Bozhi See

A home device controller can monitor published state data on a message bus of a distributed system of home device controllers, the published state data indicating current states of home devices connected to each home device controller of the distributed system. The home device controller can detect, from the message bus, a fault condition corresponding to a specified home device controller in the distributed system of home device controllers. Based on the fault condition and a set of acquisition rules, the home device controller acquires a home device in the local network of the specified home device controller in the distributed system. Based on the published state data on the message bus, the home device controller maintains a current state of the acquired home device.

Distributed system of home device controllers

A device controller can communicate with a local network of devices and one or more intermediary devices for transmitting scene commands for implementation of a scene. The device controller may create a mesh bridge with the one or more intermediary devices to establish a communication link with a controlled device and generate and transmit a set of one or more scene commands via the mesh bridge to the controlled device to execute the scene.

Bridging mesh device controller for implementing a scene

A distributed system of home device controllers can control a set of home devices. A home device controller of the system can determine a set of configurations for a set of home devices being repeatedly configured by a user. The controller can automatically display a selectable feature indicating a suggested scene corresponding to the set of configurations for the set of home devices. The system can receive one or more inputs to select the suggested scene, and based at least in part on the one or more inputs, associate the suggest scene with a set of triggers. In response to detecting the set of triggers, the controller can automatically transmit a set of commands that correspond to the suggested scene to the set of home devices to execute the suggested scene.

Automatic scene creation using home device control

A control device having a surface that is hidden after installation of the control device. The control device includes an optical code disposed on the surface. The optical code encodes a device identifier of the control device and a secret code. The control device includes a wireless transceiver configured to communicate with a user device during a provisioning sequence of events that is initiated based on the user device scanning the optical code to obtain the device identifier and the secret code.

Optical code provisioning for control devices

A device controller can include one or more touch sensors, an exterior panel, and a wireless transceiver to communicate with a local network of smart devices and one or more intermediary devices for transmitting scene commands for implementation by a second device controller. The device controller may create a mesh bridge with the one or more intermediary devices to establish a communication link with the destination controller and generate and transmit a set of scene commands via the mesh bridge to the destination controller to cause the destination controller to execute the scene.

A home device controller can publish state data indicating a state of each home device in its local network of home devices to a message bus of the distributed system, the message bus being accessed by each of a plurality of home device controllers in a distributed system of home device controllers. In doing so, the distributed system can mitigate or resolve fault conditions occurring with any of the home device controllers in the distributed system through a lease acquisition process that enables home device controllers to acquire the home devices from other home device controllers.

A distributed system of home device controllers can control a set of home devices within one or more local networks of the distributed system, analyze interactions of a user with respect to the set of home devices to determine a scene pattern configured by the user, and generate an automatic scene corresponding to the scene pattern to enable execution of the automatic scene without user interaction with the set of home devices.

A home device controller can receive inputs on a touch control mechanism from a user to control a selected home device in a local network of the home device controller. The controller can generate a set of control commands based on the inputs, and transmit the set of control commands to the selected home device for execution. The controller can publish state data indicating a state of the selected home device, following execution of the set of control commands, to a message bus of the distributed system, the message bus being accessed by each of the plurality of home device controllers to mitigate or resolve fault conditions occurring with any of the home controllers in the distributed system.

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San Mateo, CA, United States of America

Jeremy Hiatt