Granted Patent B2

US 12,482,045 · App. 18/400,337 · Granted Nov 25, 2025

Inventor: Michael Montgomery Brophy (Arlington, VA)

Assignee: Alarm.com Incorporated

G06Q50/163G06Q10/02G06Q30/0645G07C9/00571G07C9/00904G07C9/215G07C9/27G07C9/29G08B25/001G07C2009/00523G07C2009/00753

Abstract

Claims (64)

1 . A system comprising:

an electronic lock; and

one or more computers and one or more storage devices on which are stored instructions that are operable, when executed by the one or more computers, to cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:

maintaining, by the system and in a database implemented in memory, reservation data for a property that identifies a reservation period during which access to the property is granted for one or more entities and an endpoint for the reservation period;

granting access to the property in response to receiving verified input for the reservation period by transmitting, by the system and to the electronic lock, an instruction that causes the electronic lock to maintain a door to the property in an unlocked state;

monitoring, by the system and after access has been granted and during the reservation period, for data a) indicating an input event for the property and b) that is received from a first device;

determining, by the system and after access has been granted and during the reservation period, whether a time satisfies a time threshold for the endpoint defined in the reservation data and whether the input event occurred; and

in response to determining, after access has been granted, whether the time satisfies the time threshold for the endpoint defined in the reservation data and whether the input event occurred, performing one or more actions comprising transmitting, by the system and to a second device at the property, one or more instructions related to at least one of the one or more actions.

2 . The system of claim 1 wherein:

determining, during the reservation period, whether the time satisfies the time threshold for the endpoint defined in the reservation data comprises determining that the time is during the reservation period and before the endpoint and that the input event did not occur; and

performing the action comprises causing the second device at the property to perform an event-not-occurred action in response to determining that the time is during the reservation period and before the endpoint and that the input event did not occur.

3 . The system of claim 1 wherein performing the action comprises:

determining whether motion has occurred within the property within the time threshold for the endpoint defined in the reservation data; and

in response to determining that no motion occurred within the property within the time threshold for the endpoint defined in the reservation data, ending the reservation period and restricting access to the property.

4 . The system of claim 1 comprising:

determining, using the reservation data, that the reservation period has begun; and

in response to determining that the reservation period has begun, performing one or more actions to prepare the property for viewing.

5 . The system of claim 4 wherein performing the one or more actions to prepare the property for viewing comprises:

generating a unique access code for the property; and

transmitting the unique access code to a device identified in the reservation data for the property.

6 . The system of claim 4 wherein performing the one or more actions to prepare the property for viewing comprises:

sending, to a device identified in the reservation data for the property, a confirmation request that requests a response that verifies data for the reservation period.

7 . The system of claim 1 , wherein transmitting, by the system and to the second device at the property, the one or more instructions related to at least one of the one or more actions causes performance of an action that reduces energy consumption at the property.

8 . One or more non-transitory computer storage media encoded with instructions that, when executed by a system that comprises one or more computers coupled via a network to a lock, one or more sensors, and a control device, cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:

maintaining reservation data for a property that identifies a reservation period during which access to the property is granted for one or more entities and an endpoint for the reservation period;

granting access to the property by sending a command to the lock at the property in response to receiving verified input for the reservation period;

monitoring, using sensor data captured by the one or more sensors at the property and after access has been granted and during the reservation period, for an input event for the property;

determining, after access has been granted and during the reservation period, whether a time satisfies a time threshold for the endpoint defined in the reservation data and whether the input event occurred; and

in response to determining, after access has been granted, whether the time satisfies the time threshold for the endpoint defined in the reservation data and whether the input event occurred, performing one or more actions comprising sending, to the control device at the property, an instruction that causes a device at the property to reduce energy consumption.

9 . The computer storage media of claim 8 wherein:

determining, during the reservation period, whether the time satisfies the time threshold for the endpoint defined in the reservation data comprises determining that the time is during the reservation period and before the endpoint and that the input event did not occur; and

performing the action comprises causing the device at the property to perform an event-not-occurred action in response to determining that the time is during the reservation period and before the endpoint and that the input event did not occur.

10 . The computer storage media of claim 8 wherein performing the action comprises:

determining whether motion has occurred within the property within the time threshold for the endpoint defined in the reservation data; and

in response to determining that no motion occurred within the property within the time threshold for the endpoint defined in the reservation data, ending the reservation period and restricting access to the property.

11 . The computer storage media of claim 8 the operations comprising:

determining, using the reservation data, that the reservation period has begun; and

in response to determining that the reservation period has begun, performing one or more actions to prepare the property for viewing.

12 . The computer storage media of claim 11 wherein performing the one or more actions to prepare the property for viewing comprises:

generating a unique access code for the property; and

transmitting the unique access code to a device identified in the reservation data for the property.

13 . The computer storage media of claim 11 wherein performing the one or more actions to prepare the property for viewing comprises:

sending, to a device identified in the reservation data for the property, a confirmation request that requests a response that verifies data for the reservation period.

14 . A computer-implemented method comprising:

by a system comprising one or more computers coupled via a network to a lock, one or more sensors, and a control device:

maintaining reservation data for a property that identifies a reservation period during which access to the property is granted for one or more entities and an endpoint for the reservation period;

granting access to the property by sending a command to the lock at the property in response to receiving verified input for the reservation period;

monitoring, using sensor data captured by the one or more sensors at the property and after access has been granted and during the reservation period, for an input event for the property;

determining, after access has been granted and during the reservation period, whether a time satisfies a time threshold for the endpoint defined in the reservation data and whether the input event occurred; and

in response to determining, after access has been granted, whether the time satisfies the time threshold for the endpoint defined in the reservation data and whether the input event occurred, performing one or more actions comprising sending, to the control device at the property, an instruction that causes a device at the property to reduce energy consumption.

15 . The method of claim 14 wherein:

determining, during the reservation period, whether the time satisfies the time threshold for the endpoint defined in the reservation data comprises determining that the time is during the reservation period and before the endpoint and that the input event did not occur; and

performing the action comprises causing a device at the property to perform an event-not-occurred action in response to determining that the time is during the reservation period and before the endpoint and that the input event did not occur.

16 . The method of claim 14 wherein performing the action comprises:

determining whether motion has occurred within the property within the time threshold for the endpoint defined in the reservation data; and

in response to determining that no motion occurred within the property within the time threshold for the endpoint defined in the reservation data, ending the reservation period and restricting access to the property.

17 . The method of claim 14 comprising:

determining, using the reservation data, that the reservation period has begun; and

in response to determining that the reservation period has begun, performing one or more actions to prepare the property for viewing.

18 . The method of claim 17 wherein performing the one or more actions to prepare the property for viewing comprises:

generating a unique access code for the property; and

transmitting the unique access code to a device identified in the reservation data for the property.

19 . The method of claim 14 wherein performing the one or more actions to prepare the property for viewing comprises:

sending, to a device identified in the reservation data for the property, a confirmation request that requests a response that verifies data for the reservation period.

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