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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 08, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 06, 2015
System and method for notifying a user of conditions associated with an internet-of-things (iot) hub
Afero, Inc., Los Altos, CA (US);
Joe Britt, Los Altos, CA (US);
Shin Matsumura, Los Altos, CA (US);
Houman Forood, San Francisco, CA (US);
Scott Zimmerman, Mountain View, CA (US);
Phillip Myles, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Sean Zawicki, Mountain View, CA (US);
Daisuke Kutami, San Francisco, CA (US);
Justin Lee, Berkeley, CA (US);
Afero, Inc., Los Altos, CA (US);
Abstract
A platform, apparatus and method for detecting that an IoT hub communication channel has become inoperative. For example, one embodiment of an IoT system comprises: an Internet of Things (IoT) hub comprising a network interface to couple the IoT hub to an IoT service over a first communication channel; at least one IoT device communicatively coupled to the IoT hub over a second communication channel; connection monitoring logic to detect when the first communication channel between the IoT service and the IoT hub has become inoperative; notification logic to transmit a notification to a data processing device of a user of the IoT system responsive to the connection monitoring logic detecting that the first communication channel has become inoperative.