Ooma, Inc.

Sleep Number Corporation

William McKinnon Gillon

Tobin E Farrand

David A Bryan

William T Krein

Hai Lei

Kevin D Snow

Douglas Hart

Arvind Vasudev

Karl F Osterlund

Thaddeus White

James Im

Steven Jay Young

Richard Vincent Rifredi

Vadim Tsyganok

Amir Shalit

Dean Nishikida

Vyacheslav Morozov

Suhas Joshi

Egor Zyryanov

Daniel Furse

Systems, methods, and software for monitoring and controlling a security system for a structure are provided herein. An exemplary method may include receiving sensor data from at least one first peripheral, the sensor data associated with at least one of activity inside and activity outside of a structure; determining a critical event based in part on the sensor data; creating an alert based in part on the critical event; getting user preferences associated with at least one of a user and a base unit; determining a response based in part on the alert and user preferences; and activating at least one of a second peripheral and a service based in part on the response.

Community security monitoring and control

A method for end point data communications anonymization for a local communications hub is provided. The method commences with receiving a first request addressed to a server from a computing device. The method further includes selecting a first remote communications hub from a plurality of remote communications hubs. The method continues with modifying the first request to generate a first modified request and sending the first modified request to the first remote communications hub. The first remote communications hub modifies the first modified request to produce a second modified request and forwards the second modified request to the server. The method further includes receiving a first response to the second modified request from the server, modifying the received first response to produce a first modified response, modifying the first modified response to produce a second modified response, and providing the second modified response to the computing device.

Systems and methods for end point data communications anonymization for a communications hub

Security monitoring and control

A method and apparatus for monitoring vital signs, such as cardiopulmonary activity, using a ballistograph are provided. The method and apparatus may be used to monitor an infant sleeping in a crib, a patient in a hospital, a person with a chronic disease at home or in professional care, or a person in an elder-care setting.

Method and apparatus for monitoring vital signs remotely

Systems and methods for augmenting an appliance device with an intelligent personal assistant. Exemplary methods include: receiving, by the appliance device, an identifier for a called party; initiating a voice call using the received identifier; monitoring audio of the voice call; determining the monitored audio includes a predetermined wake word; beginning communications with the intelligent personal assistant, the communications including at least a portion of the monitored audio, the portion of the monitored audio comprising a request for the intelligent personal assistant; receiving a result from the intelligent personal assistant, the result being responsive to the request; receiving indicia that the voice call is over from at least one of the called party and a calling party; and terminating the voice call using the indicia.

Server based intelligent personal assistant services

Cloud-based assistive services for use in telecommunications and on premise devices are disclosed herein. An example method includes: operating in a monitoring state to actively monitor for a first predetermined action, receiving an audio stream based on communications between a first party and a second party, identifying the first predetermined action, establishing one- or two-way communications with any of the first party or the second party in response to the first predetermined action, determining a request for the intelligent personal assistant service in the one- or two-way communications, generating a result by the intelligent personal assistant service, the result being responsive to the request, providing the result to any of the first party and the second party, receiving a second predetermined action from any of the first party and the second party, and returning the intelligent personal assistant service to the monitoring state based on the second predetermined action.

Cloud-based assistive services for use in telecommunications and on premise devices

Methods and systems for enhanced multipath transport (MPT) are provided. Exemplary methods include: receiving by a hub a first data packet from a client; identifying a priority of the first data packet; encapsulating the first data packet based on the priority; redundantly sending a first encapsulated first data packet to an MPT server over a wired broadband network and a second encapsulated first data packet to the MPT server over a wireless broadband network; getting a second data packet responsive to the first encapsulated data packet, the second data packet being produced by a service; forwarding the second data packet to the client.

Enhanced multi transport for redundancy

Systems and methods for communications network failure detection and remediation utilizing link probes are disclosed. Exemplary methods include: receiving first communications from a first client; authenticating the first user of the first client; creating a registration for the first client in a registration database; establishing a connection to the first client; detecting the connection to the first client has failed, the detecting comprising using a link probe to test connectivity of the first client and utilizing a voting scheme, based on the plurality of connectivity test results, to determine that the connection to the first client has failed; receiving second communications from the second client; authenticating the first user of the second client using the telephone number and the security credential; removing the registration for the first client from the registration database; creating a registration for the second client; and establishing a connection to the second client.

Systems and methods of communications network failure detection and remediation utilizing link probes

Security monitoring and control utilizing DECT devices

A method for bandwidth sharing is provided. The method may include getting a list of neighboring communications hubs, the neighboring communications hubs being disposed in respective neighboring residences. The neighboring communications hubs may be communicatively coupled to the first communications hub using a first broadband data network provisioned by an Internet Service Provider (ISP), and the neighboring residences may be within a same predetermined geographic region as the first residence or within a predetermined temporal distance on a data network from the first residence. The method determines if a data requirement exceeds bandwidth available to the first communications hub and provides a request for data to a neighboring communications hub. The request corresponds to the data requirement. The method then receives data responsive to the request from the neighboring communications hub.

Communications hub

Methods and systems for alternate network utilization are provided. Exemplary methods include: broadcasting by a hub an unsolicited announcement over a network to a plurality of devices coupled to a router, the unsolicited announcement being configured to cause at least some of the plurality of devices to store in a table a link-layer address of the hub as a link-layer address of the router; receiving by the hub a data packet from a device of the plurality of devices; and selectively directing by the hub the received packet to a first broadband network or a second broadband network using predetermined criteria.

Gateway address spoofing for alternate network utilization

Systems and methods for communications network failure detection and remediation. Exemplary methods include: receiving first communications using a network from a first client, the first communications including an identifier for a user of the first client and a security credential of the user; authenticating the first user using the identifier and the security credential; creating, responsive to the authenticating, a registration for the first client in a registration database, the registration including an address for the first client, the registration being used to route second communications from a second client to the first client; establishing, responsive to the authenticating, a connection to the first client; detecting the connection has failed; and removing, responsive to the detecting, the registration from the registration database.

Communications network failure detection and remediation

Provided are methods, systems, and media for Internet Advertising. Exemplary methods may include: providing an advertisement including a first identifier to a website using at least one of a template and an application programming interface (API), the advertisement to be displayed on the website; receiving a communications session initiated by an end customer using the first identifier, the communications session including a second identifier associated with the end customer; accepting the communications session when the second identifier is not included in a black list; retrieving a record associated with the end customer using the second identifier; determining to provide a promotional message to the end customer using the record; selecting an offer using the record; providing the promotional message to the end customer using the communications session, the promotional message including the offer and a request for an indication of interest.

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San Mateo, CA, United States of America

William McKinnon Gillon