IP Library Granted Patent US 10,547,469
Granted Patent B2
US 10,547,469 · App. 15/223,145 · Granted Jan 28, 2020

System, method, and recording medium for adjusting ambience of a room

Inventors: Swaminathan Balasubramanian (Troy, MI); Krisha Banerjee (West Bengal, IN); Radha Mohan De (West Bengal, IN); Ashley Dallas Delport (Durban, ZA); Indrajit Poddar (Sewickley, PA); Cheranellore Vasudevan (Bastrop, TX)
Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
H04L12/2807H04L67/125H04L67/306
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Patent No.
US 10,547,469
App. No.
15/223,145
Granted
Jan 28, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

An ambience adjustment method, system, and non-transitory computer readable medium, includes configuring an ambient condition of a first device detected in an environment to match an ambient condition of a similar device in a user profile, identifying a change to the ambient condition of the first device configured by the configuring, and updating the user profile with a new ambient condition based on the identified change to the ambient condition.

Claims (61)

1. An ambience adjustment method, the method comprising:

configuring an ambient condition of a first device detected in an environment to match an ambient condition of a similar device in a user profile;

identifying a change to the ambient condition of the first device configured by the configuring;

updating the user profile with a new ambient condition based on the identified change to the ambient condition; and

detecting a second device,

wherein if the second device does not match the similar device in the user profile, the identifying identities an ambient condition in the user profile for a most similar first device to the second device and the updating sets the ambient condition of the most similar first device as the ambient condition in the user profile of the second device, and

wherein the configuring configures a new condition in the user profile for the second device when there is no most similar device in the user profile to the second device, and the method further comprising outputting an update to the user profile that includes the change to the ambient condition of the first device.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the configuring configures the ambient condition of the first device to match the new ambient condition of the updated user profile after the identifying identifies the change to the ambient condition.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein if the second device does not match a similar device in the user profile, the identifying identifies an ambient condition of the second device and the updating updates the user profile with the ambient condition of the second device.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the identifying further identifies a programmable setting associated with the similar device in the user profile such that the configuring configures the first device according to the programmable setting of the similar device.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the programmable setting comprises at least one of:

an external weather condition;

a time of day;

a time of year;

a length of stay in the environment; and

a location of the new setting.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first device comprises an Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled device.

7. The method of claim 1 , embodied in a cloud-computing environment.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first device is detected via a protocol selected from a group consisting of a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and ZigBee protocol.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the configuring configures an ambient condition for each of a plurality of devices detected in the environment to match an ambient condition of a similar device in the user profile, and

wherein the configuring further determines a configuration sequence to rearrange each of the plurality of devices to match the ambient condition of the similar device in the user profile.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the identifying identifies the change to the ambient condition of the first device configured by the configuring such that the next time the configuring configures the first device, the first device is configured to have the changed ambient condition.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium recording an ambience adjustment program, the program causing a computer to perform:

configuring an ambient condition of a first device detected in an environment to match an ambient condition of a similar device in a user profile;

identifying a change to the ambient condition of the first device configured by the configuring;

updating the user profile with a new ambient condition based on the identified change to the ambient condition; and

detecting a second device,

wherein if the second device does not match the similar device in the user profile, the identifying identifies an ambient condition in the user profile for a most similar first device to the second device and the updating sets the ambient condition of the most similar first device as the ambient condition in the user profile of the second device, and

wherein the configuring configures a new condition in the user profile for the second device when there is no most similar device in the user profile to the second device, and

further comprising outputting an update to the user profile that includes the change to the ambient condition of the first device.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium of claim 11 , wherein the configuring configures the ambient condition of the first device to match the new ambient condition of the updated user profile after the identifying identifies the change to the ambient condition.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium of claim 11 ,

wherein if the second device does not match a similar device in the user profile, the identifying identifies an ambient condition of the second device and the updating updates the user profile with the ambient condition of the second device.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium of claim 11 , wherein the identifying further identifies a programmable setting associated with the similar device in the user profile such that the configuring configures the first device according to the programmable setting of the similar device.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium of claim 14 , wherein the programmable setting comprises at least one of:

an external weather condition;

a time of day;

a time of year;

a length of stay in the environment; and

a location of the new setting.

16. An ambience adjustment system, said system comprising:

a user profile database;

a processor; and

a memory, the memory storing instructions to cause the processor to:

configure an ambient condition of a first device detected in an environment to match an ambient condition of a similar device in a user profile;

identify a change to the ambient condition of the first device configured by the configuring;

update the user profile with a new ambient condition based on the identified change to the ambient condition; and

detect a second device,

wherein if the second device does not match the similar device in the user profile, the identifying identifies an ambient condition in the user profile for a most similar first device to the second device and the updating sets the ambient condition of the most similar first device as the ambient condition in the user profile of the second device, and

wherein the configuring configures a new condition in the user profile for the second device when there is no most similar device in the user profile to the second device, and

further comprising outputting an update to the user profile that includes the change to the ambient condition of the first device.

17. The system of claim 16 , wherein the processor further configures the ambient condition of the first device to match the new ambient condition of the updated user profile after the identifying identifies the change to the ambient condition.

18. The system of claim 16 ,

wherein if the second device does not match a similar device in the user profile, the identifying identifies an ambient condition of the second device and the updating updates the user profile with the ambient condition of the second device.

19. The system of claim 16 , wherein the processor further identifies a programmable setting associated with the similar device in the user profile such that the configuring configures the first device according to the programmable setting of the similar device.

20. The system of claim 19 , wherein the programmable setting comprises at least one of:

an external weather condition;

a time of day;

a time of year;

a length of stay in the environment; and

a location of the new setting.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 29, 2016
From: BALASUBRAMANIAN, SWAMINATHAN; BANERJEE, KRISHA; DE, RADHA MOHAN; DELPORT, ASHLEY DALLAS; PODDAR, INDRAJIT; VASUDEVAN, CHERANELLORE
To: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
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Continuity (1)
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