Patents by Inventor Pascal Payan

Pascal Payan 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).

  • Method of operating a mobile control unit of a home-automation installation
    Patent number: 9122256
    Abstract: Method of operating a mobile control unit intended to form part of a home-automation installation comprising elements including items of equipment fixed in a building, the elements of the installation communicating over a home-automation network, each element being furnished with an identifier which is specific to it and with an authentication key, termed “common key”, identical for all the elements of the home-automation network and authenticating an element's membership to the home-automation network, characterized in that it comprises:—a step of locating the mobile control unit with respect to a contour containing the elements of the home-automation installation, the mobile unit comprising a means of network linking to the home-automation network,—a step of automatic invalidation of the common key contained in the mobile control unit in the case where the mobile control unit is situated outside the contour.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: SOMFY SAS
    Inventors: Pascal Payan, Florent Pellarin, Bernard Grehant
  • Method of Operating a Mobile Control Unit of a Home-Automation Installation
    Publication number: 20130225132
    Abstract: Method of operating a mobile control unit intended to form part of a home-automation installation comprising elements including items of equipment fixed in a building, the elements of the installation communicating over a home-automation network, each element being furnished with an identifier which is specific to it and with an authentication key, termed “common key”, identical for all the elements of the home-automation network and authenticating an element's membership to the home-automation network, characterized in that it comprises:—a step of locating the mobile control unit with respect to a contour containing the elements of the home-automation installation, the mobile unit comprising a means of network linking to the home-automation network,—a step of automatic invalidation of the common key contained in the mobile control unit in the case where the mobile control unit is situated outside the contour.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2011
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Inventors: Pascal Payan, Florent Pellarin, Bernard Grehant