Patents by Inventor Robert B. Locke

Robert B. Locke has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11747430
    Abstract: A networked system for managing a physical intrusion detection/alarm includes an upper tier of server devices, comprising: processor devices and memory in communication with the processor devices, a middle tier of gateway devices that are in communication with upper tier servers, and a lower level tier of devices that comprise fully functional nodes with at least some of the functional nodes including an application layer that execute routines to provide node functions, and a device to manage the lower tier of devices, the device instantiating a program manager that executes a state machine to control the application layer in each of the at least some of the functional nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBH
    Inventor: Robert B. Locke
  • Publication number: 20220129999
    Abstract: A system including one or more memory devices having instructions stored thereon, that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive travel data associated with a travel plan of a user indicating one or more travel destinations. The instructions cause the one or more processors to receive destination risk data indicating a destination risk of the one or more travel destinations associated with transmission of an infectious disease, receive personal risk data indicating a risk of the user associated with the infectious disease, and generate an infection travel risk score for the user based on the destination risk data and the personal risk data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Robert B. Locke, Richard J. Campero, John D. Perkins, Karl F. Reichenberger
  • Patent number: 11276024
    Abstract: A system including one or more memory devices having instructions thereon, that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive a request from a service provider to be added to a trusted network of service providers, receive health safety data of a health data stream associated with the service provider and risk data of a risk data stream indicating risk levels associated with the service provider, determine that the service provider meets a level of heath safety by correlating the health safety data of the health data stream with the risk data of the risk data stream, receive a request from a device for a service provider recommendation of the trusted network of service providers, and provide an indication of the service provider to the device in response to a reception of the request for the service provider recommendation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP
    Inventors: Robert B. Locke, Richard J. Campero, John D. Perkins, Karl F. Reichenberger
  • Publication number: 20220005138
    Abstract: Techniques for detecting conditions at a geographic location are described. The techniques receive plural information feeds, aggregate the information according commonality of information, and analyze information from the plural information feeds according to rules. Upon detection of a rule being triggered for a particular user, the techniques produce or spawn an instruction thread that is controlled or scheduled by an instruction thread scheduler and which filters the received information from the data feeds according to the triggered rule, (and user, user location) and produce an instruction thread that continually analyzes the filtered information from the data feeds to produce operational decisions based on the information and data feeds, detect during the continual analysis changes in risk of a threat according to the triggered rule, produce response messages based on the determined change, and send the generated response messages as an alert to a system/device of a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventors: Robert B. Locke, Paul Rasband
  • Publication number: 20210407690
    Abstract: A system including one or more memory devices having instructions stored thereon, that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive a request from a user device of a user to add the user to a trusted user service, receive health behavior data of a health behavior data stream associated with behavior relating to a spread of an infectious disease at a physical location, determine whether the user meets one or more health safety levels based on the health behavior data stream, add the user to the trusted user service in response to a determination that the user meets the one or more health safety levels, and generate an access indication for the user to access the physical location at one or more particular times in response to the determination that the user meets the one or more health safety levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Robert B. Locke, Richard J. Campero, John D. Perkins, Karl F. Reichenberger
  • Publication number: 20210406789
    Abstract: A system including one or more memory devices having instructions thereon, that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive a request from a service provider to be added to a trusted network of service providers, receive health safety data of a health data stream associated with the service provider and risk data of a risk data stream indicating risk levels associated with the service provider, determine that the service provider meets a level of heath safety by correlating the health safety data of the health data stream with the risk data of the risk data stream, receive a request from a device for a service provider recommendation of the trusted network of service providers, and provide an indication of the service provider to the device in response to a reception of the request for the service provider recommendation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Robert B. Locke, Richard J. Campero, John D. Perkins, Karl F. Reichenberger
  • Patent number: 11164269
    Abstract: A system including one or more memory devices having instructions stored thereon, that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive travel data associated with a travel plan of a user indicating one or more travel destinations. The instructions cause the one or more processors to receive destination risk data indicating a destination risk of the one or more travel destinations associated with transmission of an infectious disease, receive personal risk data indicating a risk of the user associated with the infectious disease, and generate an infection travel risk score for the user based on the destination risk data and the personal risk data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP
    Inventors: Robert B. Locke, Richard J. Campero, John D. Perkins, Karl F. Reichenberger
  • Patent number: 10769854
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques that use mixed reality, e.g., augmented reality and virtual reality technologies to improve analysis of security situations as well as retail processes and activity in retail stores. For security these techniques merge the physical world embodied in security systems with the virtual world of policies and analytics. In the retail aspect, these techniques merge the physical world of retail items, displays, and spaces with the virtual world of policies and analytics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBH
    Inventor: Robert B. Locke
  • Patent number: 10726712
    Abstract: Described are techniques that use an autonomous mobile unmanned machine that includes at least one sensor device suitable to verify an alarm condition. Upon assertion of an alarm condition message asserted as a result of a potential alarm condition existing within a facility, the machine receives a location of the alarm condition and is programmed with a route from a current location of the autonomous mobile unmanned machine to the location of the alarm condition. The at least one sensor device carried by the autonomous mobile unmanned machine collects sensor data at least at the location of the alarm condition and the machine sends to a system a message pertaining to status of the alarm condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: SENSORMATIC ELECTRONICS, LLC
    Inventors: Robert B. Locke, Alessandro Scanu, Ana Vinogradova, Jason A. Breed, Gregory W. Hill
  • Patent number: 10650593
    Abstract: A server system can receive an assertion of an alarm condition from a security system that processes sensor signals from sensors and that triggers the alarm condition. The server system is can send messages to determined nearby sensors to start sending data back to the server system according to the alarm condition. The server system can analyze sensor data received from the sensors. The analysis includes a verification of the alarm condition, a determination of how often queried data is requested, and a determination of which of selected data received from selected sensors to forward to one or more mixed reality devices. The server system can forward data to the one or more mixed reality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBH
    Inventors: Robert B. Locke, Paul B. Rasband, Rain Cui, Steve Schattmaier, Richard Campero
  • Patent number: 10614627
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques that use mixed reality, e.g., augmented reality and virtual reality technologies to improve analysis of security situations. The techniques allow a guard (or other user in a facility) to observe persons in a facility and determine merely by looking at such persons through a mixed reality device whether those persons are authorized to be in the facility or not, irrespective of whether those persons are required or not required to publically display some credentials, such as a badge or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBH
    Inventors: Robert B. Locke, Paul B. Rasband, Rain Cui, Steve Schattmaier, Richard Campero
  • Patent number: 10521968
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques that use mixed reality, e.g., augmented reality and virtual reality technologies to improve analysis of retail processes and activity in retail establishments. A server system receives images from a mixed reality device, which images including representations of physical objects and receives voice data from the mixed reality device and executes a cognitive agent to process the voice data received from the mixed reality device that generates a set of virtual objects that include data describing merchandising process concepts regarding the set of physical objects, based on input queries received in the voice data and sending by a server system, the set of virtual objects to the mixed reality device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Tyco Fire & Security GmbH
    Inventors: Robert B. Locke, Paul B. Rasband
  • Publication number: 20190139315
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques that use mixed reality, e.g., augmented reality and virtual reality technologies to improve analysis of retail processes and activity in retail establishments. A server system receives images from a mixed reality device, which images including representations of physical objects and receives voice data from the mixed reality device and executes a cognitive agent to process the voice data received from the mixed reality device that generates a set of virtual objects that include data describing merchandising process concepts regarding the set of physical objects, based on input queries received in the voice data and sending by a server system, the set of virtual objects to the mixed reality device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Applicant: Tyco Fire & Security GmbH
    Inventors: Robert B. Locke, Paul B. Rasband
  • Publication number: 20190066488
    Abstract: Described are techniques that use an autonomous mobile unmanned machine that includes at least one sensor device suitable to verify an alarm condition. Upon assertion of an alarm condition message asserted as a result of a potential alarm condition existing within a facility, the machine receives a location of the alarm condition and is programmed with a route from a current location of the autonomous mobile unmanned machine to the location of the alarm condition. The at least one sensor device carried by the autonomous mobile unmanned machine collects sensor data at least at the location of the alarm condition and the machine sends to a system a message pertaining to status of the alarm condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventors: Robert B. Locke, Alessandro Scanu, Ana Vinogradova, Jason A. Breed, Gregory W. Hill
  • Patent number: 10147238
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques that use mixed reality, e.g., augmented reality and virtual reality technologies to improve analysis of retail processes and activity in retail establishments. A server system receives images from a mixed reality device, which images including representations of physical objects and receives voice data from the mixed reality device and executes a cognitive agent to process the voice data received from the mixed reality device that generates a set of virtual objects that include data describing merchandising process concepts regarding the set of physical objects, based on input queries received in the voice data and sending by a server system, the set of virtual objects to the mixed reality device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: Tyco Fire & Security GmbH
    Inventors: Robert B. Locke, Paul B. Rasband
  • Publication number: 20180018824
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques that use mixed reality, e.g., augmented reality and virtual reality technologies to improve analysis of retail processes and activity in retail establishments. A server system receives images from a mixed reality device, which images including representations of physical objects and receives voice data from the mixed reality device and executes a cognitive agent to process the voice data received from the mixed reality device that generates a set of virtual objects that include data describing merchandising process concepts regarding the set of physical objects, based on input queries received in the voice data and sending by a server system, the set of virtual objects to the mixed reality device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Applicant: Tyco Fire & Security GmbH
    Inventors: Robert B. Locke, Paul B. Rasband
  • Publication number: 20180018867
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques that use mixed reality, e.g., augmented reality and virtual reality technologies to improve analysis of security situations. These techniques merge the physical world embodied in security systems with the virtual world of policies and analytics. Upon receiving an assertion of an alarm condition from a security system that processes sensor signals a server sends messages to determine nearby sensors to turn on and start sending data back to the servers. Further implementations have the servers modify operation of the sensors to collect more relevant sensor data according to the alarm condition. The servers control a mixed reality device on which information such as a video feed is rendered on a display associated with the device, as well as data determined by the servers based on analysis of the received sensor data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Applicant: Tyco Fire & Security GmbH
    Inventors: Robert B. Locke, Paul B. Rasband, Rain Cui, Steve Schattmaier, Richard Campero
  • Publication number: 20180018708
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques that use mixed reality, e.g., augmented reality and virtual reality technologies to improve analysis of retail processes and activity in retail stores. A system is configured to receive a set of social media feeds, filter the social media feeds according to at least one criterion to derive data according to the at least one criterion and from received images in view of a set of physical objects, execute one or more merchandizing algorithms that apply the data derived from the filtered social media feeds to provide as an output data describing one or more social media related values associated with one or more of the physical objects in the view of the set of physical objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Applicant: Tyco Fire & Security GmbH
    Inventors: Robert B. Locke, Paul B. Rasband
  • Publication number: 20180018823
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques that use mixed reality, e.g., augmented reality and virtual reality technologies to improve analysis of security situations as well as retail processes and activity in retail stores. For security these techniques merge the physical world embodied in security systems with the virtual world of policies and analytics. In the retail aspect, these techniques merge the physical world of retail items, displays, and spaces with the virtual world of policies and analytics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Applicant: Tyco Fire & Security GmbH
    Inventors: Christopher Cianciolo, Robert B. Locke
  • Publication number: 20180018861
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques that use mixed reality, e.g., augmented reality and virtual reality technologies to improve analysis of security situations. The techniques allow a guard (or other user in a facility) to observe persons in a facility and determine merely by looking at such persons through a mixed reality device whether those persons are authorized to be in the facility or not, irrespective of whether those persons are required or not required to publically display some credentials, such as a badge or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Applicant: Tyco Fire & Security GmbH
    Inventors: Robert B. Locke, Paul B. Rasband, Rain Cui, Steve Schattmaier, Richard Campero