US 11,675,861 B2
Sensory allegiance
Venson Shaw, Kirkland, WA (US); and Sangar Dowlatkhah, Johns Creek, GA (US)
Assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US)
Filed by AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US)
Filed on Sep. 14, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/944,232.
Application 17/944,232 is a continuation of application No. 16/529,857, filed on Aug. 2, 2019, granted, now 11,487,836.
Application 16/529,857 is a continuation of application No. 14/887,579, filed on Oct. 20, 2015, granted, now 10,417,295, issued on Sep. 17, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0004612 A1, Jan. 5, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06F 16/00 (2019.01); G06F 16/9537 (2019.01); H04L 67/12 (2022.01); H04M 15/00 (2006.01); G06F 16/955 (2019.01); H04W 4/70 (2018.01); H04W 4/02 (2018.01)
CPC G06F 16/9537 (2019.01) [G06F 16/955 (2019.01); H04L 67/12 (2013.01); H04M 15/09 (2013.01); H04W 4/023 (2013.01); H04W 4/70 (2018.02)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
receiving, by a hardware processor, a device identifier sent from a sensor, the device identifier uniquely identifying a processor-controlled device communicating with the sensor;
receiving, by the hardware processor, an angular orientation associated with the sensor, wherein the sensor is configured to rotate amongst a plurality of different angular orientations, the angular orientation included in the plurality of different angular orientations, wherein each of the plurality of different angular orientations is associated with a respective angular orientation of an irrigation device;
based on the device identifier and the angular orientation, determining, by the hardware processor, an allegiance between the processor-controlled device and the sensor; and
in response to the allegiance between the processor-controlled device and the sensor, associating, by the hardware processor, an output generated by the irrigation device to the processor-controlled device as part of a shared irrigation service for a subscriber included in a plurality of subscribers.