公开(公告)号：US20170171607A1

公开(公告)日：2017-06-15

申请号：US14968724

申请日：2015-12-14

Applicant: AFERO, INC.

Inventor： JOE BRITT

IPC: H04N21/436 ,  H04N21/61 ,  H04N21/4223 ,  H04N7/18 ,  H04N21/4627 ,  H04L29/08 ,  H04L29/06 ,  G06K7/10 ,  H04N5/44 ,  H04N21/254

CPC classification number: H04N21/43615 ,  G06K7/10722 ,  H04L63/062 ,  H04L63/0823 ,  H04L63/102 ,  H04L67/12 ,  H04N5/23254 ,  H04N21/2541 ,  H04N21/25816 ,  H04N21/4126 ,  H04N21/42202 ,  H04N21/4223 ,  H04N21/4627 ,  H04N21/6125 ,  H04W4/80 ,  H04W12/04 ,  H04W12/06 ,  H04W12/08

Abstract: A system and method are described for capturing video in an IoT system. For example, one embodiment of a system comprises: a plurality of IoT devices to be positioned within a user's home or business, each of the IoT devices having a sensor to take measurements of local conditions and to transmit the measurements or related indications to an IoT service and/or a client device of the user; an app or application to be installed on the client device, the user to use the app or application to capture a security code from an Internet of Things (IoT) video camera, the app or application to securely transmit the security code to the IoT service; the IoT service to perform a lookup in a database to identify the security code and to responsively associate the IoT video camera with the user using the security code; and video capture control logic to receive the measurements or related indications from the plurality of IoT devices and to responsively determine whether to turn on video capture of the IoT video camera based on the measurements or related indications in accordance with video capture rules specified by the user.

公开(公告)号：US20170171313A1

公开(公告)日：2017-06-15

申请号：US14967644

申请日：2015-12-14

Applicant: AFERO, INC.

Inventor： JOE BRITT ,  SCOTT ZIMMERMAN

IPC: H04L29/08 ,  H04L29/06 ,  H04W12/04 ,  H04W12/02 ,  H04W4/20 ,  H04L9/08

CPC classification number: H04L67/12 ,  H04L9/0838 ,  H04L63/0442 ,  H04L63/0457 ,  H04W4/21 ,  H04W12/003 ,  H04W12/02 ,  H04W12/04

Abstract: An apparatus and method are described for modifying packet interval timing to identify a data transfer condition. For example, one embodiment of a system comprises: an Internet of Things (IoT) device comprising a first wireless networking interface to establish communication with an IoT hub over a local wireless network channel, the first wireless networking interface implementing a first advertising interval between advertising packets; advertising interval selection logic to cause the first wireless networking interface to use a second advertising interval for advertising packets upon detecting that the IoT device has data to be transmitted to the IoT hub, the IoT hub to detect that the IoT device has data to be transmitted based on the change to the second advertising interval.

公开(公告)号：US20170171181A1

公开(公告)日：2017-06-15

申请号：US14968684

申请日：2015-12-14

Applicant: AFERO, INC.

Inventor： JOE BRITT

IPC: H04L29/06

CPC classification number: H04L63/08 ,  H04L63/0428 ,  H04L63/06 ,  H04W12/02 ,  H04W12/06 ,  H04W84/18

Abstract: An apparatus and method are for providing security to a mass storage device using an Internet of Things (IoT) system. For example, one embodiment of a system comprises: a mass storage device to store data; an Internet of Things (IoT) device associated with the mass storage device; an IoT service comprising a database to store an association between the mass storage device and the IoT device; wherein to authenticate and unlock the mass storage device for use with a data processing device, the IoT device is to establish an encrypted communication channel with the IoT service and transmit a unique identification (ID) code to the IoT service uniquely identifying the IoT device to the IoT service; the IoT service to authenticate the IoT device using the unique ID code and to responsively transmit an unlock command over the encrypted communication channel to unlock the mass storage device; and the IoT device to responsively unlock the mass storage device upon receipt of the unlock code.

公开(公告)号：US20170169264A1

公开(公告)日：2017-06-15

申请号：US14967703

申请日：2015-12-14

Applicant: AFERO, INC.

Inventor： JOE BRITT ,  SHIN MATSUMURA ,  HOUMAN FOROOD

IPC: G06K7/10 ,  H04W4/00 ,  G06K7/08 ,  H04L9/08 ,  G06K19/06 ,  H04W12/04 ,  H04W12/06 ,  H04L29/06 ,  G06Q10/08 ,  H04L29/08

CPC classification number: G06K7/10386 ,  G06K7/089 ,  G06K7/10257 ,  G06K19/06037 ,  G06Q10/087 ,  H04L9/006 ,  H04L9/0838 ,  H04L9/0861 ,  H04L9/0877 ,  H04L9/0891 ,  H04L9/14 ,  H04L9/3247 ,  H04L63/0428 ,  H04L63/0442 ,  H04L63/0823 ,  H04L67/02 ,  H04L67/025 ,  H04L67/10 ,  H04L67/12 ,  H04L67/141 ,  H04L67/146 ,  H04L67/28 ,  H04L2209/80 ,  H04W4/80 ,  H04W12/02 ,  H04W12/04 ,  H04W12/06 ,  H04W84/042 ,  Y02D70/1262 ,  Y02D70/142 ,  Y02D70/144 ,  Y02D70/146 ,  Y02D70/164 ,  Y02D70/166 ,  Y02D70/26

Abstract: A system and method are described for Internet of Things (IoT) shelf tags. For example, one embodiment of a system comprises: a shelf tag IoT device comprising a local wireless communication interface to establish a local wireless communication link with one or more IoT hubs or client devices, the shelf tag IoT device further comprising a secure communication module to establish a secure communication channel with an IoT service over the Internet using the local wireless communication link; a low power display coupled to the shelf tag IoT device to display product information related to retail products placed on shelves at a retail location; a products database maintained on the IoT service and/or an external retail service, the products database to store an association between each IoT device and each of a plurality of products sold by a retailer; shelf tag management logic executed on the IoT service and/or the external retail service and configured to push pricing updates for products to each respective shelf tag IoT device upon detecting a change in price for the products associated with the shelf tag IoT devices.

公开(公告)号：US20170127304A1

公开(公告)日：2017-05-04

申请号：US14927701

申请日：2015-10-30

Applicant: Afero, Inc.

Inventor： JOE BRITT ,  OMAR ZAKARIA

IPC: H04W24/08 ,  H04W4/00 ,  H04L12/26 ,  H04L12/741

CPC classification number: H04W24/08 ,  H04L45/745 ,  H04W4/80 ,  H04W24/04

Abstract: An apparatus and method are described for capturing, manipulating and analyzing wireless network communication. For example, one embodiment of the invention comprises: a plurality of channel filters, each channel filter to remove all but a specified portion of a wireless network spectrum associated with each of a plurality of wireless network channels; a plurality of radios each configured to receive one of the specified portions of the wireless network spectrum associated with one of the channels, each of the radios to demodulate the received portions to produce a digital data stream for each channel; wireless device identification logic to analyze the digital data stream for each channel to identify wireless devices sending and/or receiving wireless communications over each channel and to packetize the transmissions using the identity of the sender and/or recipient; a plurality of wireless networking stacks, each of the wireless networking stacks associated with one of the wireless devices identified by the wireless device identification logic; stack forwarding logic to receive packets from the wireless device identification logic and to forward the packets to wireless networking stacks corresponding to each of the wireless devices identified by the wireless device identification logic; and a communication feature extraction module to extract a specified set of features from the digital data stream generated by the radios, the packets generated by the wireless device identification logic and/or the wireless networking stacks, including characteristics of a wireless networking protocol implemented by each of the wireless devices.