ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,856, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).
"Device control based on signature" was invented by Mark Hashimoto (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for identifying a recurring event associated with a premises, and automatically performing actions associated with the recurring event. A computing device may generate a signature for the recurring event to indicate a series of actions associated with the recurring event, may detect occurrence of the recurring event, and may perform one or more of the series of actions indicated by the ...