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1. 发明授权

US11678141B2 Hybrid cellular Bluetooth tracking devices, methods and systems 有权
公开(公告)号：US11678141B2
公开(公告)日：2023-06-13
申请号：US16950666
申请日：2020-11-17
申请人： PB Inc.
发明人： Daniel J. Daoura , Robert Aldridge , Johnathan Charles Miller , Nicholas R. Pearson-Franks
IPC分类号： H04W4/80 , H04W4/029 , H04W24/08 , H04W52/02 , H04W88/16
CPC分类号： H04W4/029 , H04W4/80 , H04W24/08 , H04W52/0235 , H04W88/16
摘要： XCB dual-radio devices as finders, locators, scanners, sensors, and radio topology reporters for pet location management services. Finding, tracking, scanning, locating and proximity monitoring are provided as complementary services supplemented by a Bluetooth Proximity Locator Services Toolkit and a Cellular Remote Locator Services Toolkit. The radiotag devices may also include a user interface with exterior “homing” switch accessible to a user. The switch may activate an “on demand” location fix and communication package useful in pet location services and recovery. For example, smart systems enable alerts, messaging, maps and mixed media support as community services for pet location and tracking.

2. 发明授权

US11450196B2 XCB tracking devices, methods and systems 有权
公开(公告)号：US11450196B2
公开(公告)日：2022-09-20
申请号：US17163403
申请日：2021-01-30
申请人： PB Inc.
发明人： Daniel J. Daoura , Johnathan Charles Miller , Robert Aldridge , Kal K Lambert , Nicholas R Pearson-Franks
IPC分类号： H04W4/021 , G08B21/24 , H04W4/80 , H04W4/029 , H04W4/02 , H04W8/00
摘要： XCB poly-radio devices as finders, locators, scanners, sensors, and radio topology reporters. XCB devices function as “smart objects” in the TOT and combine transceivers operating in the telecommunications and the low power ISM radio spectra, with default power management setting overrides under local control of a Bluetooth modem controller, and can be authenticated on a variety of local area networks (LANs), personal area networks (PANs), piconets and cellular networks. Finding, wayfinding, tracking, scanning, locating and proximity monitoring are provided as complementary services supplemented by a Bluetooth Proximity Locator Services Toolkit, Cellular Remote Locator Services Toolkit, and a “Tap-2-Connect” community-supported on-demand lost-and-found data or voice link between an owner and a passerby who finds a lost smart object. Data logging of local sensor data and ISM radio “pollution” enables provisioning of the physical web, piconets, tracking minders, geofences, living maps, walk-up computing, and “proximity avoidance tools” such as useful for wireless security and viral prophylaxis. The devices may include a user interface for communications and natural language voice control and optionally also include a display and video interface, with or without camera.

3. 发明申请

US20220217517A1 BATTERY BEACON SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF USE 有权
公开(公告)号：US20220217517A1
公开(公告)日：2022-07-07
申请号：US17538899
申请日：2021-11-30
申请人： PB, Inc
发明人： Daniel J Daoura , Nicholas R Pearson-Franks
IPC分类号： H04W4/80 , H04W4/02 , H04L67/02
摘要： In an embodiment, a battery radio jacket with flexible printed circuit operably mountable on an external surface of a standard battery, typically with a conductive adhesive backing, the jacket having end tabs for electrically connecting with the anode and cathode of the battery. Powered in parallel with a battery-operated appliance or load (“host asset”), the radio jacket transmits a unique radio identifier useful in finding and tracking the host asset. For convenience, the battery radio jacket as assembled on a standard battery, fits into the battery-receiving compartment of the battery-operated appliance without modification of the form factor of the battery. Optionally the radio jacket may include a switch for radio control of power to the appliance or load. The battery radio jackets enable radio links to smart devices such as smartphones and may be operated by a cloud host as part of a system for finding and tracking assets and for sensing and reporting battery status and environmental data.

4. 发明申请

US20220165146A1 XCB TRACKING DEVICES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS 有权
公开(公告)号：US20220165146A1
公开(公告)日：2022-05-26
申请号：US17570333
申请日：2022-01-06
申请人： PB Inc. (dba Pebblebee)
发明人： Daniel J. Daoura , Johnathan Charles Miller , Robert Aldridge , Kal K. Lambert , Nicholas R. Pearson-Franks
IPC分类号： G08B21/24 , H04W4/80 , H04W4/029 , H04W4/02 , H04W8/00
摘要： XCB poly-radio devices as finders, locators, scanners, sensors, and radio topology reporters. XCB devices function as “smart objects” in the TOT and combine transceivers operating in the telecommunications and the low power ISM radio spectra, with default power management setting overrides under local control of a Bluetooth modem controller, and can be authenticated on a variety of local area networks (LANs), personal area networks (PANs), piconets and cellular networks. Finding, wayfinding, tracking, scanning, locating and proximity monitoring are provided as complementary services supplemented by a Bluetooth Proximity Locator Services Toolkit, Cellular Remote Locator Services Toolkit, and a “Tap-2-Connect” community-supported on-demand lost-and-found data or voice link between an owner and a passerby who finds a lost smart object. Data logging of local sensor data and ISM radio “pollution” enables provisioning of the physical web, piconets, tracking minders, geofences, living maps, walk-up computing, and “proximity avoidance tools” such as useful for wireless security and viral prophylaxis. The devices may include a user interface for communications and natural language voice control and optionally also include a display and video interface, with or without camera.

5. 发明授权

US11184858B2 Bluecell devices and methods 有权
公开(公告)号：US11184858B2
公开(公告)日：2021-11-23
申请号：US16575315
申请日：2019-09-18
申请人： PB, Inc
发明人： Daniel J. Daoura , Nicholas R. Pearson-Franks
IPC分类号： G04B29/00 , H04W52/02 , H04W76/28 , H04W4/029 , H04W4/80
摘要： Tracking devices having extended service life for use as finders, locators, sensors, and radio contact reporters. The devices combine a Bluetooth digital radioset and a cellular frequency modulation radioset and are operative with or without a smart device and with or without a cellular radio network. Finding, locating and sensing are provided as a Bluetooth network service, as a cellular network service, or as a service mediated on a network that combines Bluetooth and cellular radio nodes, with “Bluecell” devices acting as hubs. Bluecell devices can be authenticated on both Bluetooth and cellular networks. Systems and methods for using the dual radio devices are also disclosed. Power management schema made possible by dual radio control of on-board processing circuit function enable extended operation of Bluecell devices as part of an IoT. Remotely controllable devices having a service life of a year or more are described.

6. 发明申请

US20210274315A1 TRACKING DEVICE SYSTEMS 有权
公开(公告)号：US20210274315A1
公开(公告)日：2021-09-02
申请号：US17228403
申请日：2021-04-12
申请人： PB Inc. (dba Pebblebee)
发明人： Daniel J. Daoura , Robert Aldridge , Johnathan Charles Miller , Kal K. Lambert , Nicholas R. Pearson-Franks
IPC分类号： H04W4/029 , H04W4/80 , H04W4/38 , H04W4/20 , H04W4/02
摘要： In a tracking device system, a networked smart device is enabled to cause execution of an executable function if a trigger condition of a conditional rule is satisfied. The conditional rules are customizable on a user interface of the smart device. The trigger condition may be any information received in a signal from a tracking device, for example, sensor data, location, a time, a date, a button press, a proximity, and more generally a trigger condition can be any condition that has a truth value by which an IF/THEN conditional rule can be evaluated and either is satisfied or is not. Executable functions for use in conditional rules may be selected from functions of a smart device, but also may include any function of a remote machine, network or system. Bluetooth radiotag devices may also include a cellular radio modem for global networking. Network systems may include software for tracking groups of radiotags and for autoprovisioning location and tracking services.

7. 发明授权

US10979862B2 Tracking device system 有权
公开(公告)号：US10979862B2
公开(公告)日：2021-04-13
申请号：US16747458
申请日：2020-01-20
申请人： PB, Inc
发明人： Daniel J Daoura , Nicholas R Pearson-Franks
IPC分类号： H04W4/029 , H04W4/80 , G08B21/24 , B08B3/10 , G06F3/0484 , G08B3/10
摘要： In a tracking device system, a networked smart device is enabled to cause execution of an executable function if a trigger condition of a conditional rule is satisfied. The conditional rules are customizable on a user interface of the smart device. The trigger condition may be any sensor information from a tracking device, or a location, a time, a date, a button press, a proximity, and more generally a trigger condition can be any condition that has a truth value by which an IF/THEN conditional rule can be evaluated and either is satisfied or is not. Executable functions for use in conditional rules may be selected from functions of the smart device, but also may include functions of a remote apparatus or functions such as an alarm state activation of a tracking device. Tracking devices have portable Bluetooth radiosets. According to one embodiment, a smart device is a smartphone, smartwatch or other personal computing device.

8. 发明授权

US10592849B2 Cellular devices, systems and methods for logistics support 有权
公开(公告)号：US10592849B2
公开(公告)日：2020-03-17
申请号：US15990682
申请日：2018-05-27
申请人： PB, Inc.
发明人： Daniel J Daoura , Nicholas R Pearson-Franks
IPC分类号： G01K1/16 , G06Q10/08 , H04W4/029 , G06K7/14 , G06K7/10
摘要： Autonomous cellular transceivers for data logging, tracking and managing shipments, the devices having auto-provisioning capability. To auto-provision itself, the cellular device must be associated in a digital record with a particular shipment or object based on physical attachment or proximity—without manual assistance. Subsequent logging, tracking and managing records in a database or databases accessible to one or more users must be updated to reflect that assignment. Auto-provisioning is achieved by associating a cellular identification number of the autonomous cellular device with a shipment or object having a unique shipping identification number or an inventory identification number. Once the identifiers are coupled, the system creates a “shipment profile” of relevant data collected by a sensor or sensors on the cellular device while en route. The system will monitor, log, and report timepoint, waypoint, condition of the goods (as evidenced or extrapolated from sensor data) while in transit. Upon delivery, when polled, or at intervals, the system may publish a link to the data and/or a summary of the shipment status and condition, and push that link onto smart devices held by decision makers and agents in the logistics management tree. In a first instance, termed here “contextual auto-provisioning”, capture of location, direction of motion, and time of departure, and so forth, with correlation to known delivery routes, schedules, sounds, and other granular data, is used for autonomous data provisioning. Other means for auto-provisioning include “RFID piggyback means” and “cellular ranked ping means”. In a preferred application in cold chain monitoring, once self-assignment is made, the cellular device will log shipment temperature during transit and the cellular device or system will interrogate cellular networks for location and time. Reporting is by cellular radio, and can include temperature, location by cellular triangulation, projected arrival time, and any alarm notifications, for example. Reports can be directed to smart phones, to mobile clients more generally, and to cloud-hosted administrative services. Uses in logistics also include monitoring shipments for exposure to volatiles, humidity, or shock outside of accepted limits, or any diversion, delivery error, or delay of goods, particularly as applied to perishable goods such as foodstuffs and pharmaceuticals, or to manage inventory of items such as bulk materials, gas cylinders, blood bags, and so forth.

9. 发明申请

US20180262894A1 BATTERY BEACON SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF USE 审中-公开
公开(公告)号：US20180262894A1
公开(公告)日：2018-09-13
申请号：US15978156
申请日：2018-05-13
申请人： PB Inc
发明人： Daniel J. Daoura , Nicholas R. Pearson-Franks
IPC分类号： H04W4/80 , H04W4/02
CPC分类号： H04W4/80 , H04L67/02 , H04W4/02 , Y02D70/142 , Y02D70/144 , Y02D70/164 , Y02D70/166 , Y02D70/22 , Y02D70/26
摘要： A device for operation as part of a system or network, the device combining a power cell, a battery housing enclosing the power cell, and a radiobeacon, where the battery is configured to supply DC power to an external apparatus and to the radiobeacon in parallel. A sensor or sensor package may also be included in the battery device and reports to the system or network. In response to a sensor or clock-derived trigger, a microcontroller in the battery uses the radiobeacon to broadcast messages to a radio receiver of a smart device or a network system. The radiobeacon has a unique identifier, and because the messages are low energy, low power radio transmissions having a maximum range of less that about 300 ft (about 100 m). A smart device with an installed application and appropriate permissions that receives the beacon signal may track, map and monitor the signal from the device. The device may be provided with a kill switch. In another instance, the device, including a sensor package and radiobeacon, clips on to the battery and can cut off or turn on battery power to an appliance using a radio command.

10. 发明申请

US20180241489A1 Radiobeacon Data Sharing by Forwarding Low Energy Transmissions to a Cloud Host 审中-公开
公开(公告)号：US20180241489A1
公开(公告)日：2018-08-23
申请号：US15959250
申请日：2018-04-22
申请人： PB, Inc
发明人： Daniel J. Daoura , Nicholas R. Pearson-Franks
IPC分类号： H04H20/59 , H04W40/22 , H04W4/02 , H04L29/08 , H04W4/80 , H04W4/70 , H04W4/90 , H04W12/02
摘要： Remote actuation of machines or machine systems is realized by a system for coupling a radiobeacon to a smart device and in turn to a broader network. The smart device is configured as a proximity-actuated “community nodal device” by an application that operates as part of the system. The community nodal device is given instructions to function as a “soft switch”: to automatically “upswitch”, amplify, and broadcast low energy, local area radiobeacon “messages” to a cloud-based server, where the message is interpreted according to rules or policies established by an operator, and a command is transmitted for execution to a remote device. Conventional smart devices generally discard data not addressed to the owner of the smart device. Instead of discarding third party messages, the system preempts their handling, and using a soft switch formed from background resources, anonymously, without access to the message by a user interface of the proxy device, and without waiting for a network query from the host, engineers an “upswitched transmission” of radiobeacon-generated data to a cloud host. Advantageously, confidential sharing of ad hoc community resources results in a negligible load on background resources of the community nodal device. Messages may include a sensor data payload. Bit overloading enables a sensor data payload to be compressed into a few hundred bytes or less.

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