Patents by Inventor Ashley Chou

Ashley Chou 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).

  • Publication number: 20240113910
    Abstract: A distributed system of home device controllers can control a set of home devices. A home device controller of the system can determine a set of configurations for a set of home devices being repeatedly configured by a user. The controller can automatically display a selectable feature indicating a suggested scene corresponding to the set of configurations for the set of home devices. The system can receive one or more inputs to select the suggested scene, and based at least in part on the one or more inputs, associate the suggest scene with a set of triggers. In response to detecting the set of triggers, the controller can automatically transmit a set of commands that correspond to the suggested scene to the set of home devices to execute the suggested scene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Aaron T. Emigh, Steven Stanek, Jeremy Hiatt, Ashley Chou
  • Patent number: 11811550
    Abstract: A distributed system of home device controllers can control a set of home devices. A home device controller of the system can determine a set of configurations for a set of home devices being repeatedly configured by a user. The controller can automatically display a selectable feature indicating a suggested scene corresponding to the set of configurations for the set of home devices. The system can receive one or more inputs to select the suggested scene, and based at least in part on the one or more inputs, associate the suggest scene with a set of triggers. In response to detecting the set of triggers, the controller can automatically transmit a set of commands that correspond to the suggested scene to the set of home devices to execute the suggested scene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Brilliant Home Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron T. Emigh, Steven Stanek, Jeremy Hiatt, Ashley Chou
  • Publication number: 20220224596
    Abstract: A home device controller can monitor published state data on a message bus of a distributed system of home device controllers, the published state data indicating current states of home devices connected to each home device controller of the distributed system. The home device controller can detect, from the message bus, a fault condition corresponding to a specified home device controller in the distributed system of home device controllers. Based on the fault condition and a set of acquisition rules, the home device controller acquires a home device in the local network of the specified home device controller in the distributed system. Based on the published state data on the message bus, the home device controller maintains a current state of the acquired home device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2022
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Inventors: Aaron T. Emigh, Steven Stanek, Ashley Chou, Jeremy Hiatt
  • Patent number: 11329867
    Abstract: A home device controller can publish state data indicating a state of each home device in its local network of home devices to a message bus of the distributed system, the message bus being accessed by each of a plurality of home device controllers in a distributed system of home device controllers. In doing so, the distributed system can mitigate or resolve fault conditions occurring with any of the home device controllers in the distributed system through a lease acquisition process that enables home device controllers to acquire the home devices from other home device controllers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Brilliant Home Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron T. Emigh, Steven Stanek, Ashley Chou, Jeremy Hiatt
  • Publication number: 20220006664
    Abstract: A distributed system of home device controllers can control a set of home devices. A home device controller of the system can determine a set of configurations for a set of home devices being repeatedly configured by a user. The controller can automatically display a selectable feature indicating a suggested scene corresponding to the set of configurations for the set of home devices. The system can receive one or more inputs to select the suggested scene, and based at least in part on the one or more inputs, associate the suggest scene with a set of triggers. In response to detecting the set of triggers, the controller can automatically transmit a set of commands that correspond to the suggested scene to the set of home devices to execute the suggested scene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventors: Aaron T. Emigh, Steven Stanek, Jeremy Hiatt, Ashley Chou
  • Patent number: 11057238
    Abstract: A distributed system of home device controllers can control a set of home devices within one or more local networks of the distributed system, analyze interactions of a user with respect to the set of home devices to determine a scene pattern configured by the user, and generate an automatic scene corresponding to the scene pattern to enable execution of the automatic scene without user interaction with the set of home devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Brilliant Home Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron T. Emigh, Steven Stanek, Jeremy Hiatt, Ashley Chou
  • Publication number: 20210194758
    Abstract: A home device controller can publish state data indicating a state of each home device in its local network of home devices to a message bus of the distributed system, the message bus being accessed by each of a plurality of home device controllers in a distributed system of home device controllers. In doing so, the distributed system can mitigate or resolve fault conditions occurring with any of the home device controllers in the distributed system through a lease acquisition process that enables home device controllers to acquire the home devices from other home device controllers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Aaron T. Emigh, Steven Stanek, Ashley Chou, Jeremy Hiatt
  • Patent number: 10985972
    Abstract: A home device controller can receive inputs on a touch control mechanism from a user to control a selected home device in a local network of the home device controller. The controller can generate a set of control commands based on the inputs, and transmit the set of control commands to the selected home device for execution. The controller can publish state data indicating a state of the selected home device, following execution of the set of control commands, to a message bus of the distributed system, the message bus being accessed by each of the plurality of home device controllers to mitigate or resolve fault conditions occurring with any of the home controllers in the distributed system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Brilliant Home Technoloy, Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron T. Emigh, Steven Stanek, Ashley Chou, Jeremy Hiatt
  • Publication number: 20200028734
    Abstract: A home device controller can receive inputs on a touch control mechanism from a user to control a selected home device in a local network of the home device controller. The controller can generate a set of control commands based on the inputs, and transmit the set of control commands to the selected home device for execution. The controller can publish state data indicating a state of the selected home device, following execution of the set of control commands, to a message bus of the distributed system, the message bus being accessed by each of the plurality of home device controllers to mitigate or resolve fault conditions occurring with any of the home controllers in the distributed system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventors: Aaron T. Emigh, Steven Stanek, Ashley Chou, Jeremy Hiatt
  • Publication number: 20190215184
    Abstract: A distributed system of home device controllers can control a set of home devices within one or more local networks of the distributed system, analyze interactions of a user with respect to the set of home devices to determine a scene pattern configured by the user, and generate an automatic scene corresponding to the scene pattern to enable execution of the automatic scene without user interaction with the set of home devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2019
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventors: Aaron T. Emigh, Steven Stanek, Jeremy Hiatt, Ashley Chou
  • Publication number: 20030121928
    Abstract: A detachable receiving box for an electronic element includes an upper box body disposed respectively with an engaging seat having an axle hole on the lateral rim thereof and a lower box body with an inserting seat convexly disposed on the lateral rim thereof; a connecting device connects the upper and the lower box bodies, wherein the main lateral side of the connecting device is respectively inserted by a resilient sliding block; the outer end of the said sliding block forms an axle portion moveably connected in the axle hole on the engaging seat; the inward resilient displacement of the sliding block under a pressing force allows the axle portion to separate from the axel hole so as to detach the upper and the lower box bodies for assembling another upper box body of different regulation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2001
    Publication date: July 3, 2003
    Inventor: Ashley Chou