Patents by Inventor Jeff M. Clark

Jeff M. Clark 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).

  • APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR INTEGRATION AND SETUP OF HOME AUTOMATION
    Publication number: 20100138007
    Abstract: A domotics system is disclosed for automatically discovering devices to add to or modify on a home automation system, configuring a home automation set top box and hardware devices/systems in the home, configuring the user interface of a control point to automatically and/or manually carry out a user's request/command to invoke the services of a device/system/subsystem, and preconfiguring the home automation system to invoke device and system services in response to an event specified by the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2009
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Applicant: QWEBL, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeff M. Clark, Christopher P.L. MacGregor
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATING OPERATIONS OF HOUSEHOLD SYSTEMS FROM REMOTE APPLICATIONS
    Publication number: 20100121968
    Abstract: A system and method is provided for programming and controlling home automation systems. The system includes a client application adapted to encode instructions to operate household devices for transmission over a communications link. The system also includes a translator module adapted to decode and translate the instructions into control signals for controlling operations of household devices. The translator module is further adapted to listen for and encode operation updates of the household device to the client application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2009
    Publication date: May 13, 2010
    Inventor: Jeff M. Clark