Patents by Inventor Matthew Christopher Mahar

Matthew Christopher Mahar 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).

  • Rule-based graphical conversational user interface for security and automation system
    Patent number: 11044114
    Abstract: A method including determining an occupancy state of a building relating to a user, detecting a condition of a component of the security and/or automation system associated with the home, displaying, based at least in part on the determined occupancy state of the user and the detected condition of the component, a message related to the user on a graphical conversational user interface (“G-CUI”). The message include a request for permission from the user to initiate a change associated with the component of the system. The method may include receiving, via the G-CUI, a response from the user including an instruction whether to grant permission to initiate the change based at least in part on the displaying, and generating a rule associated with the component and a future occupancy state of the home relating to the user based at least in part on the received response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Vivint, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Allen Rawlins, Victoria Marie Thomas, Nic Brunson, Wes Robert Hotchkiss, Matthew Christopher Mahar, Gavin Scott Jensen
  • RULE-BASED GRAPHICAL CONVERSATIONAL USER INTERFACE FOR SECURITY AND AUTOMATION SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20180139069
    Abstract: A method including determining an occupancy state of a building relating to a user, detecting a condition of a component of the security and/or automation system associated with the home, displaying, based at least in part on the determined occupancy state of the user and the detected condition of the component, a message related to the user on a graphical conversational user interface (“G-CUI”). The message include a request for permission from the user to initiate a change associated with the component of the system. The method may include receiving, via the G-CUI, a response from the user including an instruction whether to grant permission to initiate the change based at least in part on the displaying, and generating a rule associated with the component and a future occupancy state of the home relating to the user based at least in part on the received response.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Inventors: Mark Allen Rawlins, Victoria Marie Thomas, Nic Brunson, Wes Robert Hotchkiss, Matthew Christopher Mahar, Gavin Scott Jensen