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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2015
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Sierra Leigh Nelmes, Rocklin, CA (US);
Sophie Solveig Le Guen, Burlingame, CA (US);
Maxime Veron, Los Altos, CA (US);
Isabel Guenette, Palo Alto, CA (US);
David Sloo, Menlo Park, CA (US);
GOOGLE INC., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A method performed at a computer system includes: receiving occupancy data for a room in a dwelling from one or more sensors in the room, the room including one or more unused electrical outlets and/or one or more electronically-controlled door handles; determining, based at least in part on the received occupancy data for the room, whether a predetermined child-protection condition is met; in accordance with a determination that the predetermined child-protection condition is met, disabling or sending instructions to disable at least one of the one or more unused electrical outlets and/or at least one of the one or more electronically-controlled door handles in the room.