Patents by Inventor Kent W. Ryhorchuk

Kent W. Ryhorchuk 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: 9582671
    Abstract: In various example embodiments, a system and method are provided for protection customer data collected at sensor nodes within a networked system. A key recovery module determines the encrypted sensor data in a request was encrypted with a certified public key associated with a first customer key-pair. The first customer key-pair represents a recovered private key. The key recovery module determines the private key associated with the first customer key-pair is encrypted with the private key associated with a second customer key-pair. The private key associated with the first customer key-pair is decrypted by using the private key associated with the second customer key-pair. The encrypted sensor data in the request is decrypted using the decrypted private key associated with the first customer key-pair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: Sensity Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Kent W. Ryhorchuk, Christopher David Sachs
  • Patent number: 9565732
    Abstract: A method and a system of lighting nodes having a core node and sensor pods is described. A core node, representing a master device, is positioned within a luminaire housing to enable lighting control for the luminaire. At least one peripheral device representing an integrated sensor pod, an external sensor pod, or a video node. Each of the peripheral devices representing a slave device and includes one or more sensors for detecting conditions. A pod bus, representing a master-slave bus, enables power signals to be transmitted to each of the peripheral devices. The pod bus also enables the core node to query each of the peripheral devices and each of the peripheral devices to respond to a query from the core node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Sensity Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Kent W. Ryhorchuk, Carlos Henriquez, Ezra Gold, David Vucich, Shin-Li Cecily Liu
  • Publication number: 20170003136
    Abstract: In various example embodiments, a system and method for interactive applications that use location-based information from a light sensor network are presented. In example embodiments, data indicating a destination location inside a geofence is received. The geofence represents a boundary around multiple private beacon nodes, which are associated with a light sensor network, and their associated beacon communications ranges. Navigation and tracking outside the geofence is based on at least one of global positioning system (GPS) signals and beacon signals received by the mobile device from at least one public beacon device within a beacon communications range of the mobile device located outside the geofence. Navigation and tracking inside the geofence is based on the beacon signals received by the mobile device from at least one private beacon node within the beacon communications range of the mobile device located inside the geofence and a virtual map including an area within the geofence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2016
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Inventors: Chris Barnard, Kent W. Ryhorchuk
  • Patent number: 9456293
    Abstract: An embodiment method for communicating data within a lighting sensory network may include configuring a first plurality of lighting nodes to operate as sensor nodes, configuring a second plurality of lighting nodes to operate as listening nodes, generating, by a sensor node using an encryption key, a sensor message associated with sensor data and including at least a timestamp, calculating an interval for transmitting the sensor message, wherein the interval is randomized and exponentially increasing, determining whether to transmit the sensor message based on the calculated interval, transmitting the sensor message in response to determining to transmit the sensor message based on the calculated interval, receiving, by a listening node, the sensor message at a listening node, determining whether the received sensor message is useful based on the timestamp and a predefined age threshold, and performing a lighting action in response to determining the received sensor message is useful.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: Sensity Systems Inc.
    Inventor: Kent W. Ryhorchuk
  • Publication number: 20160270179
    Abstract: A method and a system of lighting nodes having a core node and sensor pods is described. A core node, representing a master device, is positioned within a luminaire housing to enable lighting control for the luminaire. At least one peripheral device representing an integrated sensor pod, an external sensor pod, or a video node. Each of the peripheral devices representing a slave device and includes one or more sensors for detecting conditions. A pod bus, representing a master-slave bus, enables power signals to be transmitted to each of the peripheral devices. The pod bus also enables the core node to query each of the peripheral devices and each of the peripheral devices to respond to a query from the core node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: Kent W. Ryhorchuk, Carlos Henriquez, Ezra Gold, David Vucich, Shin-Li Cecily Liu
  • Patent number: 9441979
    Abstract: In various example embodiments, a system and method for interactive applications that use location-based information from a light sensor network are presented. In example embodiments, data indicating a destination location inside a geofence is received. The geofence represents a boundary around multiple private beacon nodes, which are associated with a light sensor network, and their associated beacon communications ranges. Navigation and tracking outside the geofence is based on at least one of global positioning system (GPS) signals and beacon signals received by the mobile device from at least one public beacon device within a beacon communications range of the mobile device located outside the geofence. Navigation and tracking inside the geofence is based on the beacon signals received by the mobile device from at least one private beacon node within the beacon communications range of the mobile device located inside the geofence and a virtual map including an area within the geofence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: Sensity Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Chris Barnard, Kent W. Ryhorchuk
  • Publication number: 20160125246
    Abstract: In various example embodiments, a system and method for parking and traffic analysis are presented. A video processing system includes a pair of cameras coupled to a light pole and configured to face downward toward a street or roadway. The pair of cameras is configurable to provide a combined FOV to capture video data of an area beneath the light pole or across a street from the light pole. The video processing system also includes a computing device for processing the video data captured by the pair of cameras. The computing device analyzes the raw video data to identify relevant scenes for an application. The computing devices determines to report a relevant scene identified to authorized users of the application. The video processing system transmits information related to the identified relevant scene, via the network, to at least one of a service platform or a user device for utilization by the application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Inventors: Kent W. Ryhorchuk, Ezra Gold
  • Publication number: 20150373482
    Abstract: In various example embodiments, a system and method for a light sensor network that provides an application framework for interactive applications that use location-based information are presented. In example embodiments, the light sensor network includes a plurality of lighting nodes and a plurality of sensor controller nodes (SCNs) positioned within a wireless communications range of one or more of the plurality of LNs. A LN within the light sensor network includes a communication interface having a first transceiver and a second transceiver. The first transceiver being configured to exchange communication signals to and from a service platform over a wide area network (WAN) via a lighting gateway node. The second transceiver being configured to receive beacon signals from a beacon transmitting device within a beacon communications range and further configured to transmit beacon signals to be received by a beacon-enabled device within the beacon communications range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Inventors: Chris Barnard, Kent W. Ryhorchuk
  • Publication number: 20150369618
    Abstract: In various example embodiments, a system and method for interactive applications that use location-based information from a light sensor network are presented. In example embodiments, data indicating a destination location inside a geofence is received. The geofence represents a boundary around multiple private beacon nodes, which are associated with a light sensor network, and their associated beacon communications ranges. Navigation and tracking outside the geofence is based on at least one of global positioning system (GPS) signals and beacon signals received by the mobile device from at least one public beacon device within a beacon communications range of the mobile device located outside the geofence. Navigation and tracking inside the geofence is based on the beacon signals received by the mobile device from at least one private beacon node within the beacon communications range of the mobile device located inside the geofence and a virtual map including an area within the geofence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Inventors: Chris Barnard, Kent W. Ryhorchuk
  • Publication number: 20150256623
    Abstract: In various example embodiments, a system and method are provided for a service data platform. The service data platform includes an application management API configured to receive software uploaded by a third party using a management application API. The service data platform also includes a plurality of graph servers configured to identify a group of lighting nodes to distribute the uploaded software and determine the uploaded software is safe for deployment to the identified group of lighting nodes. The service data platform further includes a device manager configured to distribute, using an administrative API, the uploaded software to the identified group of lighting nodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2015
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Inventors: Kent W. Ryhorchuk, Christopher David Sachs
  • Publication number: 20150254570
    Abstract: Systems and methods for probabilistic semantic sensing in a sensory network are disclosed. The system receives raw sensor data from a plurality of sensors and generates semantic data including sensed events. The system correlates the semantic data based on classifiers to generate aggregations of semantic data. Further, the system analyzes the aggregations of semantic data with a probabilistic engine to produce a corresponding plurality of derived events each of which includes a derived probability. The system generates a first derived event, including a first derived probability, that is generated based on a plurality of probabilities that respectively represent a confidence of an associated semantic datum to enable at least one application to perform a service based on the plurality of derived events.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2015
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Inventors: Peter Raymond Florence, Christopher David Sachs, Kent W. Ryhorchuk
  • Publication number: 20150254463
    Abstract: In various example embodiments, a system and method are provided for protection customer data collected at sensor nodes within a networked system. A key recovery module determines the encrypted sensor data in a request was encrypted with a certified public key associated with a first customer key-pair. The first customer key-pair represents a recovered private key. The key recovery module determines the private key associated with the first customer key-pair is encrypted with the private key associated with a second customer key-pair. The private key associated with the first customer key-pair is decrypted by using the private key associated with the second customer key-pair. The encrypted sensor data in the request is decrypted using the decrypted private key associated with the first customer key-pair.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2015
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Inventors: Kent W. Ryhorchuk, Christopher David Sachs
  • Publication number: 20140293993
    Abstract: An embodiment method for communicating data within a lighting sensory network may include configuring a first plurality of lighting nodes to operate as sensor nodes, configuring a second plurality of lighting nodes to operate as listening nodes, generating, by a sensor node using an encryption key, a sensor message associated with sensor data and including at least a timestamp, calculating an interval for transmitting the sensor message, wherein the interval is randomized and exponentially increasing, determining whether to transmit the sensor message based on the calculated interval, transmitting the sensor message in response to determining to transmit the sensor message based on the calculated interval, receiving, by a listening node, the sensor message at a listening node, determining whether the received sensor message is useful based on the timestamp and a predefined age threshold, and performing a lighting action in response to determining the received sensor message is useful.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: Sensity Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Kent W. Ryhorchuk