Patents by Inventor Tim Yao

Tim Yao 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).

  • DEVICE LOCATION NETWORK
    Publication number: 20230080188
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for identifying, at a monitoring system, a location of a device panel, the device panel being configured to communicate with a position module of the monitoring system; obtaining, by the position module, location information for a plurality of anchor devices, each anchor device of the plurality of anchor devices being located within a predefined area of a property; determining, by the position module, a respective location of each anchor device within the predefined area based on analysis of the location information for the plurality of anchor devices; and determining, by the position module, a location for a sensor in the predefined area based on the respective location of at least one anchor device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: John Zhang, Tim Yao, William Wireko Mensah
  • Device location network
    Patent number: 11531082
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for identifying, at a monitoring system, a location of a device panel, the device panel being configured to communicate with a position module of the monitoring system; obtaining, by the position module, location information for a plurality of anchor devices, each anchor device of the plurality of anchor devices being located within a predefined area of a property; determining, by the position module, a respective location of each anchor device within the predefined area based on analysis of the location information for the plurality of anchor devices; and determining, by the position module, a location for a sensor in the predefined area based on the respective location of at least one anchor device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Alarm.com Incorporated
    Inventors: John Zhang, Tim Yao, William Wireko Mensah
  • DEVICE LOCATION NETWORK
    Publication number: 20190391227
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for identifying, at a monitoring system, a location of a device panel, the device panel being configured to communicate with a position module of the monitoring system; obtaining, by the position module, location information for a plurality of anchor devices, each anchor device of the plurality of anchor devices being located within a predefined area of a property; determining, by the position module, a respective location of each anchor device within the predefined area based on analysis of the location information for the plurality of anchor devices; and determining, by the position module, a location for a sensor in the predefined area based on the respective location of at least one anchor device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventors: John Zhang, Tim Yao, William Wireko Mensah