Generating suggestions for scenes and triggers

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10764153-B2
Application number	US-201615275342-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 24, 2016
Priority date	Sep 24, 2016
Publication date	Sep 1, 2020
Grant date	Sep 1, 2020

Abstract

In some implementations, a user device can automatically generate scene suggestions and/or trigger suggestions. For example, a scene can be a collection of accessories and corresponding accessory states. When the scene is invoked, the user device can cause the accessories associated with the scene to assume the corresponding accessory states. The user device can automatically determine the accessories and/or corresponding accessory states for a scene based on historical patterns of use represented in historical accessory state data. The user device can automatically determine triggers for automatically invoking scenes based on historical patterns of use. For example, the user device can analyze historical context (e.g., location, time, accessory state, etc.) data associated with accessory state transitions to determine triggers for automatically invoking a scene. The user device can present suggest scenes and/or triggers to the user of the user device.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
presenting, by at least one computing device, a first user interface configured to enable management of a plurality of accessories;
receiving, by the at least one computing device, a selection of a user interface element of the first user interface, the selection indicating a request to add a scene;
receiving, by the at least one computing device, event data from the plurality of accessories indicating state changes occurring at the plurality of accessories;
based at least in part on the event data, identifying, by the at least one computing device, a pattern of accessory state changes for a group of accessories of the plurality of accessories that are temporally related;
generating, by the at least one computing device, a scene suggestion for the scene based at least in part on the pattern of accessory state changes, where the scene includes the group of accessories and accessory states determined based at least in part on the pattern of accessory state changes and where invocation of the scene causes each accessory in the group of accessories to transition to the determined accessory states;
presenting, by the at least one computing device, the scene suggestion in a second user interface; and
upon selection of the scene suggestion, presenting, by the at least one computing device, the scene corresponding to the scene suggestion in a third user interface.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
determining that a first accessory changed state at a first time;
determining that a second accessory changed state at a second time;
determining that the first time is within a threshold period of time of the second time; and
grouping the first accessory and the second accessory into the group of accessories.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining the pattern of accessory state changes includes:
determining that each accessory in the group of accessories changed to respective first states within a threshold period of time at about a first time; and
determining that each accessory in the group of accessories changed to the respective first states within a threshold period of time at about a second time.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining the pattern of accessory state changes includes:
determining that each accessory in the group of accessories changed to respective first states within a threshold period of time of a first event at a first time; and
determining that each accessory in the group of accessories changed to the respective first states within a threshold period of time of a second event at a second time, where the first event and the second event correspond to a particular type of event.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the user interface is configured to enable editing of the scene.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the third user interface is configured to enable editing of the scene.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving, by the at least one computing device, a selection of a second user interface element of the first user interface, the selection of the second user interface element indicating a request to add a trigger;
generating, by the at least one computing device, a trigger suggestion based at least in part on a trigger event detected in the event data, wherein the trigger event is an event that automatically causes invocation of the scene;
presenting, by the at least one computing device, the trigger suggestion in the second user interface; and
upon selection of the trigger suggestion, presenting, by the at least one computing device, the trigger the third user interface.

8. A method comprising:
receiving, by at least one computing device, event data from a plurality of accessories indicating state changes occurring at the accessories;
based at least in part on the event data, identifying, by the at least one computing device, a pattern of accessory state changes for a group of accessories that are temporally related;
generating, by the at least one computing device, a scene based at least in part on the pattern of accessory state changes, where the scene includes the group of accessories and accessory states determined based at least in part on the pattern of accessory state changes and where invocation of the scene causes each accessory in the group of accessories to transition to the determined accessory states;
determining, by the at least one computing device, a trigger event for the scene based at least in part on the event data, where the trigger event is an event that automatically causes invocation of the scene;
presenting, by the at least one computing device, a trigger suggestion in a user interface of the at least one computing device, where the trigger suggestion identifies the trigger event and where a trigger confidence score is above a trigger confidence threshold;
detecting, by the at least one computing device, an input at the user interface associated with the trigger suggestion;
determining, by the at least one computing device, whether the input identifies acceptance of the trigger suggestion or rejection of the trigger suggestion; and
adjusting, by the at least one computing device, the trigger confidence threshold according to whether the input identifies acceptance of the trigger suggestion or rejection of the trigger suggestion.

9. The method of claim 8 , further comprising:
detecting a pattern of events in the event data that indicates the pattern of accessory state changes are correlated to the trigger event.

10. The method of claim 8 , wherein the trigger event occurs after the pattern of accessory state changes.

11. The method of claim 8 , further comprising:
determining a first number of times that the trigger event occurs in the event data;
determining a second number of times that the trigger event occurs in conjunction with the pattern of accessory state changes;
calculating a ratio of the second number over the first number; and
presenting the trigger suggestion when the ratio is greater than a threshold value.

12. A non-transitory computer-readable medium including one or more sequences of instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause:
presenting, by at least one computing device, a first user interface configured to enable management of a plurality of accessories;
receiving, by the at least one computing device, a selection of a user interface element of the first user interface, the selection indicating a request to add a scene;
receiving, by the at least one computing device, event data from a plurality of accessories indicating state changes occurring at the plurality of accessories;
based at least in part on the event data, identifying, by the at least one computing device, a pattern of accessory state changes for a group of accessories of the plurality of accessories that are temporally related;
generating, by the at least one computing device, a scene suggestion for the scene based at least in part on the pattern of accessory state changes, where the scene includes the group of accessories and accessory states determined based at least in part on the pattern of accessory state changes and where invocation of the scene causes each accessory in the group of accessories to transition to the determined accessory states;
presenting, by the at least one computing device, the scene suggestion in a second user interface; and
upon selection of the scene suggestion, presenting, by the at least one computing device, the scene corresponding to the scene suggestion in a third user interface.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 12 ,

Assignees

• Apple Inc

Inventors

• Mclaughlin Kevin P
• Bucak Serhat S
• Saxena Sumit
• Nadathur Anush
• Mathias Arun

Classifications

• G06Q10/063 Primary

  Operations research, analysis or management · CPC title

• H04W12/102

  Route integrity, e.g. using trusted paths · CPC title

• H04W12/50

  Secure pairing of devices · CPC title

• H04W12/037

  of the control plane, e.g. signalling traffic · CPC title

• G06F3/04847

  Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials · CPC title