Providing hospitality via a mobile device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9838992-B2
Application number	US-201414575183-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 18, 2014
Priority date	Dec 18, 2014
Publication date	Dec 5, 2017
Grant date	Dec 5, 2017

Abstract

Providing hospitality via a mobile device is described herein. One method includes determining, by a mobile device, a hospitality preference of a user of the mobile device for a particular location, storing the hospitality preference in a memory of the mobile device, and modifying, by the mobile device, an operation of at least one system device associated with the particular location to provide the hospitality preference responsive to a distance between the mobile device and the particular location exceeding a particular threshold.

First claim

What is claimed:

1. A device for providing hospitality, comprising:
a memory; and
a processor configured to execute executable instructions stored on the memory to:
cause a modification of an operation of a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning system device of a hospitality entity according to a first hospitality preference of a user responsive to a determination that a mobile device is located at a first location with respect to the hospitality entity, wherein the first hospitality preference is determined based on at least one temperature adjustment made to the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning system device over a particular period of time;
cause a modification of an operation of an access reader configured to allow physical access to a room of the hospitality entity according to a second hospitality preference of the user responsive to an establishment of a wireless connection between the mobile device and the access reader;
cause a different modification of the operation of the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning system device of the hospitality entity according to a compromise between the first hospitality preference of the user and a hospitality preference of a different user responsive to the determination that the mobile device is located at the first location with respect to the hospitality entity and a determination that a different mobile device associated with the different user is also located at the first location with respect to the hospitality entity; and
communicate hospitality information associated with the hospitality entity to the mobile device.

2. The device of claim 1 , wherein the instructions are executable by the processor to allow the user to communicate with the hospitality entity via at least one input made using the mobile device.

3. The device of claim 1 , wherein the hospitality entity is one of a hotel, a motel, a travel agency, a university, an office building, a stadium, a service company, an airport, and a train station.

4. The device of claim 1 , wherein the hospitality information associated with the hospitality entity includes a map corresponding to a location of the hospitality entity.

5. A method for providing hospitality via a mobile device, comprising:
determining, by a first mobile device, a first hospitality preference of a first user of the first mobile device for a particular location based on at least one temperature adjustment made to a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning system device over a particular period of time;
determining, by a second mobile device, a second hospitality preference of a second user of the second mobile device for the particular location;
storing the first hospitality preference in a memory of the first mobile device;
storing the second hospitality preference in a memory of the second mobile device;
determining, by the first mobile device, an additional hospitality preference of the first user of the mobile device for an access reader configured to allow physical access to a room of the hospitality entity;
modifying an operation of the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning system device associated with the particular location to provide a compromise between the first hospitality preference of the first user and the second hospitality preference of the second user responsive to a distance between the first mobile device and the particular location exceeding a particular threshold and a distance between the second mobile device and the particular location exceeding the particular threshold; and
modifying, by the first mobile device, an operation of the access reader to provide the additional hospitality preference responsive to an establishment of a wireless connection between the first mobile device and the access reader.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein determining the first hospitality preference and the additional hospitality preference of the first user includes allowing the first user to input the hospitality preferences into the first mobile device.

7. The method of claim 5 , wherein determining the first hospitality preference of the first user for the particular location includes determining a hospitality preference of the first user for a particular structure.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the distance between the first mobile device and the particular location exceeding the particular threshold and the distance between the second mobile device and the particular location exceeding the particular threshold includes the respective mobile devices being determined to be located in a particular room of the particular structure.

9. The method of claim 7 , wherein the distance between the first mobile device and the particular location exceeding the particular threshold and the distance between the second mobile device and the particular location exceeding the particular threshold includes the respective mobile devices being determined to be within a particular distance from the structure.

10. The method of claim 5 , wherein the method includes determining the distance between the first mobile device and the particular location, and the distance between the second mobile device and the particular location using a respective location functionality associated with the respective mobile devices.

11. The method of claim 5 , wherein the method includes determining, by the first mobile device, a status of the provision of the first or the second hospitality preference.

12. The method of claim 5 , wherein modifying an operation of the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning system device includes the mobile device communicating with the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning system device via a particular application programming interface.

13. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having computer readable instructions stored thereon that are executable by a processor to:
establish a communication between a mobile device and a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning first system device of a hospitality entity via a particular application program interface (API);
access a first predefined user preference associated with the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning system device, wherein the first predefined user preference is determined based on at least one temperature adjustment made to the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning system device over a particular period of time;
cause the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning system device to change from a first state to a second state via the API according to the first predefined user preference;
establish a wireless connection between the mobile device and an access reader configured to allow physical access to a room of the hospitality entity via the API;
access a second predefined user preference associated with the access reader;
cause the access reader to change state via the API according to the second predefined user preference responsive to the establishment of the wireless connection between the mobile device and the access reader;
establish a different communication between a different mobile device and the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning system device via the particular API, wherein the different mobile device is associated with a different user; and
cause the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning system device to change from the second state to a third state via the API according to a compromise between the first predefined user preference of the user and a different predefined user preference of the different user.

14. The computer-readable medium of claim 13 , wherein the instructions are executable by the process

Assignees

• Honeywell Int Inc

Inventors

• Khurana Himanshu
• Godbole Datta
• Lister Heather
• Tessier Patrick

Classifications

• H04W64/00 Primary

  Locating users or terminals {or network equipment} for network management purposes, e.g. mobility management · CPC title

• H04W4/023 Primary

  using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds · CPC title

• H04M1/72572

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04M1/7253

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04M1/72457

  according to geographic location · CPC title