Multi-services application gateway and system employing the same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11783925-B2
Application number	US-202117506451-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 20, 2021
Priority date	Dec 29, 2006
Publication date	Oct 10, 2023
Grant date	Oct 10, 2023

Abstract

An intelligent gateway device provided at a premise (home or business) for providing and managing application services associated with use and support of a plurality of digital endpoint devices associated with the premises. The device includes a communications and processing infrastructure integrated with a peer and presence messaging based communications protocol for enabling communications between the device and an external support network and between the device and connected digital endpoint devices. A services framework at the gateway device implements the communications and processing infrastructure for enabling service management, service configuration, and authentication of user of services at the intelligent gateway. The framework provides a storage and execution environment for supporting and executing received service logic modules relating to use, management, and support of the digital endpoint devices. Thus, the gateway device provides a network-based services point of presence for a plurality of digital endpoint devices at the premises.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A wireless camera control system locatable at a user premises, comprising:
at least one interface configured to enable communication to a remote device via a wide area network and a local area network; and
a module including instructions to:
enable a first user to set one or more triggers for a camera device at the user premises based on at least one event detected at the user premises, and wherein the camera device is configured to communicate with the wide area network and/or the local area network,
enable the first user to
(1) control storage of at least a portion of camera captured information,
(2) selectively invite one or more individuals to access the stored information via at least a portion of the wide area network, and
(3) control secured access to the stored information by the invited one or more individuals that have been authenticated.

2. The camera control system of claim 1 , wherein the module is configured to encrypt the stored information and subsequently decrypt the stored information based upon positive authentication of the invited one or more individuals and associated valid authentication credentials.

3. The camera control system of claim 1 , wherein the module further enables the first user to control secured access to the stored information by the invited one or more individuals that have been authenticated, modify an amount of the stored information accessible to the invited one or more individuals, revoke access of the invited one or more individuals to disallow access to the stored information, or a combination thereof.

4. The camera control system of claim 1 , wherein
the at least one detected event is an alarm event or motion, and
the stored information includes video recorded by the camera device in response to the at least one detected event.

5. A camera control device locatable at a user premises for controlling a camera at the user premises, the camera control device comprising:
at least one interface configured to enable communication over a wide area network via a local area network; and
a module including instructions to enable a first user to:
control storing of information captured by the camera,
selectively invite one or more individuals for accessing the stored information via a remote wide area network connection, and
control secured access to the stored information by the invited one or more individuals.

6. The camera control device of claim 5 , wherein the camera control device is programmed to enable the invited one or more individuals to place tags and/or comments on the stored information.

7. The camera control device of claim 5 , wherein the invited one or more individuals are notified of information updates automatically as they occur if a change in the stored information is detected.

8. A method for managing information captured by a camera located at a user premises, the method comprising:
controlling storage of captured data at a communication device, wherein the captured data is provided by the camera;
controlling, in response to input from a first user at an initial time, access to the captured data for one or more individuals invited by the first user, wherein the access is controlled to allow a computing device to access the captured data via a wide area network, wherein the computing device is (1) located remote from the communication device and (2) associated with the invited one or more individuals;
enabling the first user to control secured access to the captured data, at the communication device, by the invited one or more individuals; and
enabling the first user at a later time to revoke access of the invited one or more individuals and disallow access to the captured data stored on the communication device.

9. The method of claim 8 , further comprising encrypting the captured data and subsequently decrypting the captured data based upon positive authentication of authentication credentials associated with at least one of the one or more individuals.

10. The method of claim 8 , wherein the one or more individuals, once authenticated, are able to place tags and comments on portions of the captured data.

11. The method of claim 8 , further comprising notifying the one or more individuals of updates automatically as they occur if there is a change in the captured data.

12. The method of claim 8 , further comprising disallowing access to the captured data by at least one of the one or more individuals for whom access has been revoked by the first user.

13. The method of claim 8 , further comprising:
receiving, via the wide area network, software and/or firmware for at least one endpoint device at the user premises; and
sending, via a secured local area network, the received software and/or firmware to the at least one endpoint device.

14. The method of claim 13 , wherein the at least one endpoint device includes the camera controlled via the secured local area network.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by a computing system, cause the computing system to perform a method comprising:
capturing data in response to at least one event detected at a user premises that meets one or more user-defined triggers for controlling operation of an endpoint device;
communicating the captured data with an endpoint device via a wide area network and/or a local area network, wherein the captured data is communicated for storage at a location remote from the user premises; and
controlling access to the captured data according to one or more first inputs from a first user, wherein the controlling access includes enabling the first user to
(1) allow access to the stored data, via a remote wide area network connection, by one or more second users that have been invited by the first user, and
(2) revoke access to the stored data by the one or more second users.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 15 , wherein the one or more user-defined triggers correspond to motion detected based on the one or more user-defined triggers stored at the user premises.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 15 , wherein the captured data includes motion data, video, and/or audio data.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 15 , wherein the instructions, when executed by the computing system, cause the computing system to:
receive, via the wide area network, software and/or firmware for at least one endpoint device at the user premises; and
sending, via the local area network, the received software and/or firmware to the at least one endpoint device.

Assignees

• Kip Prod P1 Lp

Inventors

• Ansari Amir
• Cowgill George A
• Masina Ramprakash
• Ramayya Jude P
• Mcquarters Alvin R
• Raissyan Atousa
• Nicholls Leon E

Classifications

• G16H10/60 Primary

  for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records · CPC title

• G16Z99/00

  Subject matter not provided for in other main groups of this subclass · CPC title

• H04L9/30

  Public key, i.e. encryption algorithm being computationally infeasible to invert or user's encryption keys not requiring secrecy · CPC title

• H04L63/08

  for authentication of entities (cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32) · CPC title

• H04L63/083

  using passwords (cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication using a predetermined code H04L9/3226) · CPC title