US 11,694,541 B2
Wireless communication diagnostics
Jordan H. Crafts, Bethlehem, PA (US); Kyle Thomas Barco, Bethlehem, PA (US); Bryan Robert Barnes, Lansdale, PA (US); David J. Dolan, Coopersburg, PA (US); William Bryce Fricke, Bethlehem, PA (US); Joel Hnatow, Allentown, PA (US); and Jonathan T. Lenz, Waltham, MA (US)
Assigned to Lutron Technology Company LLC, Coopersburg, PA (US)
Filed by Lutron Technology Company LLC, Coopersburg, PA (US)
Filed on Mar. 1, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/188,781.
Application 16/253,621 is a division of application No. 14/578,156, filed on Dec. 19, 2014, granted, now 10,339,795, issued on Jul. 9, 2019.
Application 17/188,781 is a continuation of application No. 16/253,621, filed on Jan. 22, 2019, granted, now 10,937,307.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/920,504, filed on Dec. 24, 2013.
Prior Publication US 2021/0183236 A1, Jun. 17, 2021
Int. Cl. G08C 17/02 (2006.01); H05B 47/19 (2020.01); H04W 88/08 (2009.01)
CPC G08C 17/02 (2013.01) [H04W 88/08 (2013.01); H05B 47/19 (2020.01); G08C 2201/34 (2013.01); G08C 2201/70 (2013.01)] 24 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A user device to detect an association between control devices, comprising:
transceiver circuitry to receive radio frequency (RF) messages generated by each of a plurality of control devices, the control devices including at least one control-source device and at least one control-target device, the at least one control-target device to adjust electrical power supplied to one or more load devices operably coupled to the at least one control-target device;
signal strength circuitry to determine a value corresponding to a respective RF signal strength for each RF signal received by the transceiver circuitry; and
control circuitry communicatively coupled to the transceiver circuitry and to the signal strength circuitry, the control circuitry to:
select a signal strength threshold value;
detect the plurality of control devices within range of the user device based on the signal strength of messages received from each respective one of the plurality of control devices exceeding the selected signal strength threshold value; and
determine whether respective ones of the one or more control-source devices included in the plurality of control devices are in communication with one or more associated control-target devices included in the plurality of control devices based, at least in part, on data included in one or more RF messages communicated between the one or more control-source devices and the one or more control-target devices.