US 11,751,016 B2
Destination identification for frictionless building interaction
Ankit Tiwari, East Hartford, CT (US); Kunal Srivastava, East Hartford, CT (US); Pedro Fernandez-Orellana, Shanghai (CN); Yuri Novozhenets, Pittsford, NY (US); and Lakshman Subramanian, Hyderabad (IN)
Assigned to CARRIER CORPORATION, Palm Beach Gardens, FL (US)
Appl. No. 17/254,640
Filed by CARRIER CORPORATION, Palm Beach Gardens, FL (US)
PCT Filed Jun. 13, 2019, PCT No. PCT/US2019/036880
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 21, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/245832, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 26, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 201810647145.9 (CN), filed on Jun. 21, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0152980 A1, May 20, 2021
Int. Cl. H04W 4/029 (2018.01); G07C 9/00 (2020.01)
CPC H04W 4/029 (2018.02) [G07C 9/00309 (2013.01); G07C 9/00896 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of determining a destination of an individual carrying a mobile device, the method comprising:
detecting a position of the mobile device and an activity of an individual carrying the mobile device;
detecting a distance between the mobile device and each of a plurality access controls;
generating a list of the plurality of access controls and the distance between the mobile device and each of the plurality access controls;
determining that the individual carrying the mobile device is slowing down but still moving based on the activity detected;
identifying one or more access controls of the plurality of access controls that have a distance of lowest magnitude on the list in response to the mobile device slowing down but still moving;
actuating an access control of the plurality of access controls that has the distance of lowest magnitude on the list when only one access control has the distance of lowest magnitude on the list;
wherein actuating the access control includes unlocking a door lock.