Apple Inc.

Google Inc.

Nest Labs, Inc.

Goolge Inc.

John Benjamin Filson

Anthony Michael Fadell

Donald Joseph Novotney

David Tupman

Fred Bould

Matthew Lee Rogers

David Hendler Sloo

Gregory Thomas Lydon

Brian Quentin Huppi

Adam Duckworth Mittleman

Lawrence G Bolton

Paul Holden

Emily Clark Schubert

Shigefumi Honjo

Scott Peter Krueger

Eric B Daniels

Michael James Matas

John Wesley Archibald

Wang Chun Leung

Stephen Paul Zadesky

Michael Plitkins

Stephen Brian Lynch

Andrew William Goldenson

Yoky Matsuoka

Fletcher R Rothkopf

Emery Artemus Sanford

Douglas Joseph Weber

Kyle H Yeates

Pinida Jan Moolsintong

Jesse Lee Dorogusker

James B Simister

Rico L Zorkendorfer

Martha Evans Hankey

Jesse William Boettcher

Jeffrey Alan Boyd

Stephen Paul Zedesky

Eugene Antony Whang

Matthew Dean Rohrbach

Daniel Adam Warren

Yash Modi

William Raeming Dong

Cameron P Frazier

Pengtao Yu

Greg Marriott

Samuel W Kortz

Jay S Laefer

Sierra Leigh Nelmes

Duane Lawrence Fowler

Andrew Goldenson

Adam Mittleman

Tang Yew Tan

Steve Porter Hotelling

Michael Nathaniel Rosenblatt

Timo A Bruck

Benjamin B Lyon

Sheng-Nan Yu

Scott P Mullins

Wey-Jiun Lin

Masashige Tatebe

Hirofumi Honjo

Terry L Tikalsky

Alastair Robert Gourlay

Gordon C Cameron

Barry Twycross

Daniel R Fletcher

Kenneth J Silverman

Richard P Howarth

Ruben Caballero

Jeffrey J Terlizzi

Teodor Dabov

Kurt R Stiehl

Mathias W Schmidt

Hugo Fiennes

Kenneth Arthur Jenks

David Bell

Mark Kraz

Phil M Hobson

Victor Manuel Tiscareno

Jonathan Alan Dutra

Jason Conrad Chamberlain

Peter A Privitera

Erik Allen Charlton

Kevin Edward Booth

Zhijun Zhang

Jan Moolsintong

Jose Natividad Martinez

Jeffrey Allan Hammerstrom

Pei-Wen Hung

Yoki Matsuoka

Eric B Greene

Ida Yum Yum Lo

Mathias Schmidt

William Dong

Management or coordination of playback of digital media assets by an electronic device (e.g., a computing device), that supports media playback is disclosed. According to one embodiment, the electronic device can be controlled such that a user is able to schedule playback of distinct digital media assets.

Media playback queuing for playback management

Electronic devices such as compact portable media players are provided. A housing for an electronic device may be relatively compact. The housing may include a door assembly with an attached spring-loaded clip. The electronic device may include a hold switch. Depending on the state of the hold switch, the electronic device may be in an off mode, a continuous playback mode, or a shuffle playback mode. The electronic device may not have integrated media playback controls such as play, pause, rewind, fast forward, etc. As one example, the electronic device may connect to an accessory that has media playback controls. Buttons and other user interfaces may be included in the accessory and user input information may be conveyed between the accessory and the electronic device using a wired path including audio connectors. The electronic device may include a printed circuit board assembly that is nested together with a battery assembly.

Portable electronic device control

Various methods and systems for smart home devices are presented. Such smart home devices may include one or more environmental sensors that are configured to detect the presence of one or more environmental conditions. Such smart home devices may include a light comprising a plurality of lighting elements. Such a light may be configured to illuminate using a plurality of colors and, possibly, a plurality of animation patterns. Such smart home devices may include a processing system configured to cause the light to illuminate using the plurality of colors and the plurality of animation patterns in response to a plurality of states of the smart home device.

Smart home device providing intuitive illumination-based status signaling

Systems and methods for forecasting events can be provided. A measurement database can store sensor measurements, each having been provided by a non-portable electronic device with a primary purpose unrelated to collecting measurements from a type of sensor that collected the measurement. A measurement set identifier can select a set of measurements. The electronic devices associated with the set of measurements can be in close geographical proximity relative to their geographical proximity to other devices. An inter-device correlator can access the set and collectively analyze the measurements. An event detector can determine whether an event occurred. An event forecaster can forecast a future event property. An alert engine can identify one or more entities to be alerted of the future event property, generate at least one alert identifying the future event property, and transmit the at least one alert to the identified one or more entities.

Dynamic distributed-sensor network for crowdsourced event detection

An electronic device may include a processor and a network interface that may include a first radio and a second radio. The processor may be configured to perform wireless communication jamming attack detection by occasionally performing clear channel verification utilizing the network interface to determine whether a threshold number of devices' channels are incapacitated in a wireless network within a threshold amount of time and/or by sending a heartbeat signal from the first radio and determining whether the second radio received the heartbeat signal.

Systems and methods for detecting wireless communication jamming in a network

A thermostat for controlling an HVAC system includes wiring terminals adapted and configured to make an electrical connection with an HVAC system wires such as common, heating and cooling control and return wires. The making of the connection with a common wire actuates switching open a loop of an electrical circuit used for power harvesting. The wiring terminal includes actuation of a moveable part of the terminal so as to accommodate the common wire that in turn actuates the switching open the power harvesting loop. More than one other loop can be switched. The wiring terminal can be used to automatically connect and/or disconnect Rc and Rh circuits when one or both Rc and Rh wires are present. The wiring terminal can be used for electronically sensing the presence of the HVAC system wire.

Thermostat wiring connector

A smart-home device may include a plurality of temperature sensors, and a processing system that may be configured to operate a first operating state characterized by relatively low power consumption and a corresponding relatively low associated heat generation, and a second operating state characterized by relatively high power consumption and a corresponding relatively high associated heat generation. During time intervals in which the processing system is operating in the first operating state, the processing system may process the temperature sensor measurements according to a first ambient temperature determination algorithm to compute the determined ambient temperature. During time intervals in which the processing system is operating in the second operating state, the processing system may process the temperature sensor measurements according to a second ambient temperature determination algorithm to compute the determined ambient temperature.

Facilitating ambient temperature measurement accuracy in an HVAC controller having internal heat-generating components

A portable electronic device may have a clip. The clip may be mounted to a housing using hinge structures. The hinge structures may bias the clip towards a closed position. The clip may be opened to attach the portable electronic device to an object. When in the closed position, the clip may lie flush with the exterior of the device housing. Clip biasing may be provided using a torsion spring, a coil spring, a ribbon spring, a clip with built-in biasing, a tension spring, or a compression spring. A coupling mechanism may be used to attach the clip to the housing. The coupling mechanism may include a ratcheting rotatable mechanism, a fixed attachment structure, a flexible attachment structure, a removable structure, or a structure that includes a spring bias adjustment mechanism. The device may have a button with a touch sensor array.

Electronic devices with clips

Certain embodiments may take the form of an electronic device having a main housing encapsulating operative circuitry for the device. The electronic device includes an attachment member moveably coupled to the metal housing. The attachment member has an acoustical device located therein that is communicatively coupled to the operative circuitry in the main housing. The attachment member includes a recessed portion for positioning the acoustical device within the attachment member.

Speaker clip

Embodiments of the invention provide thermostat controls having improved tactile feedback. According to one embodiment, a thermostat includes a bottom member, a switch, a top member, and a motion guiding member or assembly that operationally couples the top member with the bottom member so that the top member is inwardly pressable by a user relative to the bottom member to allow the thermostat to receive input from the user by contacting the switch with a component of the top member or the bottom member. The motion guiding member or assembly contacts the top member near its outer periphery to control the inward motion of the top member relative to the bottom member to provide the improved tactile feedback.

Building control unit method and controls

An occupancy sensing electronic thermostat is described that includes a thermostat body, an electronic display that is viewable by a user in front of the thermostat, a passive infrared sensor for measuring infrared energy and an infrared energy directing element formed integrally with a front surface of the thermostat body. The passive infrared sensor may be positioned behind the infrared energy directing element such that infrared energy is directed thereonto by the infrared energy directing element. The thermostat may also include a temperature sensor and a microprocessor programmed to detect occupancy based on measurements from the passive infrared sensor.

Thermostat user interface

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