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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 06, 2018
Filed:
Nov. 11, 2016
Atif Mohammad Noori, San Francisco, CA (US);
Gordon Wai Yee Kwan, San Jose, CA (US);
Kevin Rohling, San Francisco, CA (US);
Kevin David Wolfe, Fairfax, VA (US);
Levi Wilburn Wolfe, San Mateo, CA (US);
Steve Arnold, San Francisco, CA (US);
Atif Mohammad Noori, San Francisco, CA (US);
Gordon Wai Yee Kwan, San Jose, CA (US);
Kevin Rohling, San Francisco, CA (US);
Kevin David Wolfe, Fairfax, VA (US);
Levi Wilburn Wolfe, San Mateo, CA (US);
Steve Arnold, San Francisco, CA (US);
Other;
Abstract
A light socket adaptation system and method. A light socket adapter module comprises a female end designed to accept a light bulb, a male end designed to be placed in an existing light socket, WIFI transmit/receive circuitry, Bluetooth LE transmit/receive circuitry, a processor that processes instructions received via one or more of the WIFI transmit/receive circuitry and the Bluetooth LE transmit/receive circuitry, wherein the instructions are received from one or more of a remote server system and a mobile computing device, wherein the processor executes Bluetooth LE instructions to cause the light socket adapter module to detect Bluetooth LE enabled devices within a detection proximity of the light socket adapter module, and power supply control circuitry controllable by the processor, wherein the power supply control circuitry controls power supplied to a light bulb positioned in the female end of the light socket adapter module.