US 12,067,389 B2
Dongle for a building management system and method of operating
Gaurav Pramod Holey, Maharashtra (IN)
Assigned to CARRIER CORPORATION, Palm Beach Gardens, FL (US)
Appl. No. 16/484,668
Filed by CARRIER CORPORATION, Jupiter, FL (US)
PCT Filed Feb. 6, 2018, PCT No. PCT/US2018/017045
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 8, 2019,
PCT Pub. No. WO2018/148199, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 16, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/456,788, filed on Feb. 9, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2020/0004527 A1, Jan. 2, 2020
Int. Cl. H04W 4/33 (2018.01); B66B 1/34 (2006.01); B66B 5/00 (2006.01); G05B 15/02 (2006.01); G06F 8/654 (2018.01); H04L 43/08 (2022.01); H04L 67/00 (2022.01)
CPC G06F 8/654 (2018.02) [B66B 1/3461 (2013.01); B66B 5/0025 (2013.01); G05B 15/02 (2013.01); H04L 43/08 (2013.01); H04L 67/34 (2013.01); H04W 4/33 (2018.02)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of using a first dongle of a plurality of dongles, wherein each dongle contains: a processor, a storage medium, a transceiver and a receiver, the method comprising:
connecting the first dongle to a USB port of local control circuitry of a building equipment system;
in response to the connecting, remotely communicating with the building equipment system via the USB port, while the first dongle wirelessly shares other information associated with the building equipment system with other dongles of the plurality of dongles, wherein the remotely communicating further includes:
downloading, via the USB port connection, firmware from the first dongle and to a processor of the local control circuitry of the building equipment system;
monitoring, via the receiver of the first dongle, a parameter of the building equipment system enabled by the downloading of the firmware; and
wirelessly sending, via the transceiver of the first dongle, parameter data associated with the monitoring of the parameter directly to a cloud server.