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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 15, 2011
Poothabalan Somasundaram, Tirunelveli, IN;
Krishnakumar Sundaram, Erode, IN;
Ganesh Ramasamy, Chennai, IN;
Thamilenthi Palanivelu, Chennai, IN;
Arunkumar Surulinathan, Pincode, IN;
Pradeep Felix, Chennai, IN;
Sundar Sivaraman, Tirunelveli, IN;
Poothabalan Somasundaram, Tirunelveli, IN;
Krishnakumar Sundaram, Erode, IN;
Ganesh Ramasamy, Chennai, IN;
Thamilenthi Palanivelu, Chennai, IN;
Arunkumar Surulinathan, Pincode, IN;
Pradeep Felix, Chennai, IN;
Sundar Sivaraman, Tirunelveli, IN;
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
A system may include a set-top box, associated with a customer premises, configured to receive a television signal and provide the television signal to a television and a home monitoring device configured to obtain a weather forecast for a geographic area associated with the customer premises, determine a thermostat setting for the customer premises based on the obtained weather forecast, and provide a recommendation about the determined thermostat setting to the set-top box. The set-top box may be further configured to present the recommendation about the determined thermostat setting via the television; receive a selection of the determined thermostat setting; and provide an indication of the selection to the home monitoring device; and the home monitoring device may be further configured to apply the determined thermostat setting to a thermostat controller associated with the customer premises, in response to receiving the indication from the set-top box.