US 11,684,039 B2
Automatic electric fence boundary adjustment
Jeffrey A. Bedell, Arlington, VA (US); Abraham Joseph Kinney, Vienna, VA (US); Jace Jawn Bauer, Houston, TX (US); Robert Nathan Picardi, Herndon, VA (US); and Matthew Daniel Correnti, Newtown Square, PA (US)
Assigned to Alarm.com Incorporated, Tysons, VA (US)
Filed by Alarm.com Incorporated, Tysons, VA (US)
Filed on Sep. 17, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/478,060.
Application 17/478,060 is a continuation of application No. 16/289,249, filed on Feb. 28, 2019, granted, now 11,122,774.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/636,499, filed on Feb. 28, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0000070 A1, Jan. 6, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G08B 21/02 (2006.01); A01K 11/00 (2006.01); A01K 27/00 (2006.01); A01K 15/02 (2006.01); G01S 19/14 (2010.01); G01S 5/00 (2006.01); H04N 7/18 (2006.01); A01K 29/00 (2006.01)
CPC A01K 11/008 (2013.01) [A01K 15/023 (2013.01); A01K 27/009 (2013.01); A01K 29/005 (2013.01); G01S 5/0027 (2013.01); G01S 19/14 (2013.01); G08B 21/0269 (2013.01); G08B 21/0286 (2013.01); G08B 21/0288 (2013.01); H04N 7/18 (2013.01); H04N 7/181 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
determining whether a likelihood that a delivery to a property at which a pet is located will occur satisfies a likelihood threshold; and
in response to determining that the likelihood that the delivery to the property at which the pet is located will occur satisfies the likelihood threshold, adjusting one or more boundaries of an electronic fence for the pet to i) provide a safe zone at the property for delivery to the property, ii) define a first area for the pet different than a second area when the electronic fence does not provide the safe zone, and iii) reduce a likelihood that the pet can access the safe zone.