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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 01, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2016
Centurylink Intellectual Property Llc, Denver, CO (US);
Thomas C. Barnett, Jr., Monroe, LA (US);
Kevin M. McBride, Lone Tree, CO (US);
Charles I. Cook, Louisville, CO (US);
Robert J. Morrill, Overland Park, KS (US);
CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC, Broomfield, CO (US);
Abstract
Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing Internet of Things ('IoT') functionality. In some embodiments, an IoT-capable personal tracking device might receive sensor data from each of a plurality of sensors, and might analyze the sensor data to identify one or more external IoT-capable devices with which to interact and to determine one or more tasks to be performed by the identified IoT-capable devices, each based at least in part on the sensor data. In some cases, the plurality of first sensors might comprise at least one of one or more sensors that monitor physical conditions of a user's body and/or one or more sensors that monitor environmental conditions external to the user's body. The personal tracking device might subsequently autonomously send, via machine-to-machine communication, control instructions to each of the identified external IoT-capable devices, based on the determined tasks. Multiple personal tracking devices may also be used.