Remote alarm hushing

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10499238-B2
Application number	US-201816159370-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 12, 2018
Priority date	Jun 16, 2015
Publication date	Dec 3, 2019
Grant date	Dec 3, 2019

Abstract

Methods and devices may be used to remotely hushing alarms by receiving an indication of an alarm event occurring at a remote device and presenting a visual indicator of the alarm event including a hush option to alter an audible and/or visual alarm notification of the remote device. A user selection of the hush option is received. In response to receiving the user selection of the hush option, communicating, from the electronic device to the remote device via a point-to-point low power wireless connection between the electronic device and the remote device, a hush request requests that the remote device alter its audible and/or visual alarm notification and causes an adjustment of the visual indicator to reflect a status of the hush request.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for hushing an alarm comprising:
receiving, via a wireless connection, an indication of an alarm event occurring at a remote device;
presenting a visual indicator of the alarm event, the visual indicator including a hush option to alter an audible or visual alarm notification of the remote device;
receiving a user selection of the hush option; and
in response to the receiving the user selection of the hush option:
communicating, to the remote device via the wireless connection, a hush request requesting that the remote device alter its audible or visual alarm notification; and
requesting a hush confirmation as a button press confirmation, a gesture confirmation, an audio confirmation, or any combination thereof.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
in response to the receiving the user selection of the hush option, adjusting the visual indicator to reflect a status of the hush request.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the adjusting the visual indicator comprises changing an appearance on a portion of a perimeter of the visual indicator corresponding to the status of the hush request, and wherein the appearance includes a color, or a degree of continuity of the perimeter, or a combination thereof.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving the hush confirmation.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the indication of the alarm event comprises an advertisement packet, and the method comprises receiving an additional advertisement packet for an additional wireless connection from an additional remote device, and wherein the additional advertisement packet for the additional wireless connection includes an indication of an additional alarm event occurring at the additional remote device.

6. The method of claim 5 , comprising:
prioritizing the alarm event and the additional alarm event in a prioritized order based on a severity of the alarm event and the severity of the additional alarm event; and
based on the prioritizing the alarm event and the additional alarm event, order presenting the visual indicator of the alarm event arranged in relation to a visual indicator of the additional alarm event.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the visual indicator comprises a circular shape or a rounded shape.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the wireless connection comprises a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) connection.

9. A non-transitory, computer-readable medium comprising instructions executable by one or more processors of an electronic device to configure the electronic device to:
receive, via a wireless connection, an indication of an alarm event occurring at a remote device;
present a visual indicator of the alarm event, the visual indicator including a hush option to alter an audible or visual alarm notification of the remote device;
receive a user selection of the hush option;
in response to the reception of the user selection of the hush option:
communicate, to the remote device via the wireless connection, a hush request requesting that the remote device alter its audible or visual alarm notification; and
request a hush confirmation as a button press confirmation, a gesture confirmation, an audio confirmation, or any combination thereof.

10. The non-transitory, computer-readable medium of claim 9 , the instructions executable by the one or more processors to configure the electronic device to:
in response to the reception of the user selection of the hush option, adjust the visual indicator to reflect a status of the hush request.

11. The non-transitory, computer-readable medium of claim 10 , wherein the adjusting the visual indicator comprises changing an appearance on a portion of a perimeter of the visual indicator corresponding to the status of the hush request, and wherein the appearance includes a color, or a degree of continuity of the perimeter, or a combination thereof.

12. The non-transitory, computer-readable medium of claim 9 , the instructions executable by the one or more processors to configure the electronic device to:
receive the hush confirmation.

13. The non-transitory, computer-readable medium of claim 9 , the instructions executable by the one or more processors to configure the electronic device to:
prioritize the alarm event and an additional alarm event in a prioritized order based on a severity of the alarm event and a severity of the additional alarm event; and
based on the prioritized order of the alarm event and the additional alarm event, present the visual indicator of the alarm event arranged in relation to a visual indicator of the additional alarm event.

14. The non-transitory, computer-readable medium of claim 9 , wherein the visual indicator comprises a circular shape or a rounded shape.

15. An electronic device comprising:
one or more processors; and
memory comprising instructions executable by the one or more processors to configure the electronic device to:
receive, via a wireless connection, an indication of an alarm event occurring at a remote device;
present a visual indicator of the alarm event, the visual indicator comprising a hush option to alter an audible or visual alarm notification of the remote device;
receive a user selection of the hush option;
in response to the received user selection of the hush option:
communicate, to the remote device via the wireless connection, a hush request requesting that the remote device alter its audible or visual alarm notification; and
request a hush confirmation as a button press confirmation, a gesture confirmation, an audio confirmation, or any combination thereof.

16. The electronic device of claim 15 , the instructions executable by the one or more processors to configure the electronic device to:
in response to the reception of the user selection of the hush option, adjust the visual indicator to reflect a status of the hush request.

17. The electronic device of claim 16 , wherein the adjustment of the visual indicator comprises changing an appearance on a portion of a perimeter of the visual indicator corresponding to the status of the hush request, and wherein the appearance includes a color, or a degree of continuity of the perimeter, or a combination thereof.

18. The electronic device of claim 15 , the instructions executable by the one or more processors to configure the electronic device to:
receive the hush confirmation.

19. The electronic device of claim 15 , the instructions executable by the one or more processors to configure the electronic device to:
if the hush response indicates that the remote device has altered its audible or visual alarm notification, indicate via a display that the remote device has altered its audible or visual alarm notification; or
if the hush response indicates that the remote device has not altered its audible or visual alarm notifications, indicate via the display that the alarm event has not been hushed.

20. The electronic device of claim 15 , wherein the visual indicator comprises a circular shape or a rounded shape.

Assignees

• Google Llc

Inventors

• Narang Smriti
• Ramachandran Prashanth
• Wang Liang-Yun
• Stebbins Andrew William
• Logue Jay D

Classifications

• G08B3/10

  using electric transmission; using electromagnetic transmission · CPC title

• H04W80/06

  Transport layer protocols, e.g. TCP [Transport Control Protocol] over wireless {(transmission control protocol/Internet protocol [TCP/IP] or user datagram protocol [UDP] H04L69/16)} · CPC title

• G08B25/08

  using communication transmission lines {(G08B13/19658, G08B21/0286, G08B25/016 take precedence)} · CPC title

• H04L12/2803

  Home automation networks · CPC title

• G08B29/18

  Prevention or correction of operating errors (G08B29/02, G08B29/12 take precedence) · CPC title