Apple Inc.

Ooma, Inc.

Sleep Number Corporation

William T Krein

David A Bryan

William McKinnon Gillon

Tobin E Farrand

James D Kelly

Kevin D Snow

Charles M Flaig

Steven G Roskowski

Dean M Drako

Arvind Vasudev

Steven Jay Young

Ronald Ray Hochsprung

Douglas Hart

Richard Vincent Rifredi

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

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

Methods and systems for remediation of jammed networks are provided. Exemplary methods include determining by a base unit of a jammed network and if outside connectivity available. The connectivity can include wired and wireless broadband networks. If connectivity is available, at least one external service is notified. Further, a user device can be notified. A local alert can be generated in the form of a phone call or test message. Also, a local action can be taken. Information associated with the jammed network is stored for later delivery if connectivity is not available where the base unit is located in a residence. Further, an alert can be issued in response to the detected network jamming, the alert being at least one of: sounding an audible alarm, showing a visual alarm indication, communicating with law enforcement, and communicating with an alarm monitoring station.

Network jamming detection and remediation

Security monitoring and control utilizing DECT devices

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

Methods and systems for network jamming detection and remediation are provided. Exemplary methods include: detecting by a base unit network jamming, the base unit being disposed in a residence; and issuing an alert in response to the detected network jamming, the alert being last least one of: sounding an audible alarm, showing a visual alarm indication, communicating with law enforcement, and communicating with an alarm monitoring station.

A computer system including a first component operated in response to the timing of a first clock, apparatus for storing information, apparatus for transferring information from the first component to the apparatus for storing information utilizing the clock of the first component, a second component operated in response to the timing of a second clock, apparatus for utilizing the clock of the second component to transfer information from the apparatus for storing information in a condition in which it is synchronized for use by the second component whereby the information may be immediately utilized by the second component without the need for storage by the second component.

System for receiving a control signal from a device for selecting its associated clock signal for controlling the transferring of information via a buffer

System for receiving a control signal from a device for selecting its

A circuit for maintaining the order of transmission of information in a computer interconnect including control circuitry for sending a signal from a source of data to a destination for data indicating that data is ready for transfer, the control circuitry comprising a plurality of buffers for storing information relating to the data, the information including information regarding the order in which the information was received by the control circuitry, means for incrementing the information regarding the order in which the information was received by the control circuitry, and apparatus for sending the information relating to the data to the destination for data in the order of receipt by the control circuitry.

Control apparatus for maintaining order and accomplishing priority

A bus bridge circuit employs a dynamic allocation scheme that allows read transactions to be pipelined without deadlock and without the need for permanently reserving multiple buffer slots for read response transactions. The bus bridge circuit associates input and output buffers with a node and includes a state machine to monitor the number and type of transaction packets currently in slots that make up the buffers. In particular, the state machine monitors the number of transaction packets loaded in the output buffer slots, the number of outstanding read transactions for the node, and the number of read response transactions currently loaded in the output buffer. The state machine then allows the node to load a READ or WRITE transaction only if the monitored data indicates at least one of the buffer slots will be available to service a READ RESPONSE subsequently loaded by the node. The state machine launches READs to the node only when an unallocated buffer slot is available to service the corresponding READ RESPONSE.

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San Jose, CA, United States of America

William T Krein