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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2011
David Bell, Winchester, GB;
Chris Phillips, Winchester, GB;
David Bell, Winchester, GB;
Chris Phillips, Winchester, GB;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for destination and duration of stay determination in a geographically bounded area such as a smart home includes detecting movement by an identified individual in an origination location of a geographically bounded area and retrieving a contemporaneously generated pattern of movement for the individual. The method additionally includes comparing the pattern for the identified individual to a set of patterns in a pattern data store and predicting from a matching pattern both a destination location in the geographically bounded area and a duration of time at which the identified individual is to remain at the destination location. Finally, the method includes directing activation of a fixture at the destination location responsive to predicting the destination location, and directing deactivation of a fixture at the origination location responsive to predicting a duration of time that exceeds a threshold value.