Controlling a device cloud
US10412160B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Aug 4, 2016 |
| Grant date | Sep 10, 2019 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 27, 2037 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04W68/005
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a natural-language message including an authorization request to authorize a first user access to one or more of a number of connected devices associated with a second user; parsing the natural-language message; identifying, based on the parsed natural-language message, the first user and one or more of a number of connected devices; implicitly determining that the first user is authorized to access the identified one or more of the number of connected devices based on a calculated strength of a relationship between a node representing the first user in a social graph and a node representing the second user in the social graph satisfying a pre-determined threshold; and providing, based on the implicit authorization, access to the identified one or more of the number of connected devices.
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