1002 results about "Apartment" patented technology

A method and apparatus for connecting and operating plurality of lockers in a multi apartment or multi office building connected via an interface to a video interphone system and via a local guardman or a virtual guardman over a network, for providing access to the building and opening a locker for a deliveryman to deliver packages, parcels and ordered goods. The tenants receiving a message through their video interphone monitor can retrieve the deliveries by opening the specific locker from their video interphone monitor, through the entry panel and through associated accessories.

An occupancy database is in electronic communication with a plurality of location-specific distributed computing entities to maintain real-time update occupancy data for various entities. As those entities relocate from one location to another (e.g., moving from one apartment to another), distributed computing entities associated with both the prior and new location of the entity transmit information to the occupancy database to reflect the changed location for the entity. The occupancy database also maintains communication data for the entities and/or locations associated with the entities, and the occupancy database may share that communication data with authorized mobile/user computing entities to enable communication between those authorized mobile/user computing entities and the particular entity or devices located at the entity's location.

A door lock particularly suited for an apartment or condominium where the resident has an entry key and management personnel also have a key that will allow access to the apartment, the door lock having a spring loaded axial pin which is retained in an externally visible position when the lock is actuated by the resident's key and which is released to an externally non-visible position when the lock is actuated by the management key.

Environmental characteristics of habitable environments (e.g., hotel or motel rooms, spas, resorts, cruise boat cabins, offices, hospitals and/or homes, apartments or residences) are controlled to eliminate, reduce or ameliorate adverse or harmful aspects and introduce, increase or enhance beneficial aspects in order to improve a “wellness” or sense of “wellbeing” provided via the environments. Control of intensity and wavelength distribution of passive and active Illumination addresses various issues, symptoms or syndromes, for instance to maintain a circadian rhythm or cycle, adjust for “jet lag” or season affective disorder, etc. Air quality and attributes are controlled. Scent(s) may be dispersed. Noise is reduced and sounds (e.g., masking, music, natural) may be provided. Environmental and biometric feedback is provided. Experimentation and machine learning are used to improve health outcomes and wellness standards.

A system measures electrical energy usage and combines the measured energy usage with other utility commodity usage for communication and data collection. The system is capable of metering electrical power utility services to residential homes and apartments or other users and combining electrical usage and other utility metering functions for utilities for multiple utility end users. The system thus integrates and communicates the results of utility usage, and eliminates the need for an individual electric metering device for each end user. The system serves as a single metering data collection point for multiple utilities and facilitates interactive communication technologies between the utility service delivery points and utility consumers or consumer devices. The system also includes a plurality of meter ports and a memory for storing meter data from each metered user. The UCI provides for injection of broadband signals onto the service conductors from multiple broadband sources.

The invention discloses a self-service room reservation method and system based on a mobile device. The method comprises the following steps that a room reservation terminal of the mobile device displays the positions of all hotels or guesthouses or apartments or rental house hosting centers having unoccupied rooms according to needs of a client in a map mode; after the client selects the needed hotel or the guesthouse or apartment or rental house hosting center on the map, selects a room and accommodation time and fills in client information, the room reservation terminal uploads the information to a room reservation server; the room reservation server extracts identity information and uploads the identity information to a public security system; the public security system verifies the identity information, judges whether the identity information is correct or not and feeds a verification result back to the room reservation server, and if the identity information is correct, the room reservation terminal reminds the client to carry out payment operation; if the identity information is incorrect, the client needs to submit the identity information again. According to the self-service room reservation method and system based on the mobile device, the client can reserve the room, rent the room and check in through self-service completely, reception services are avoided, the information is verified through the public security system, safety and high efficiency are achieved, and management is convenient.

Methods and systems for cleaning and providing barrier coatings to interior walls of piping systems. An entire piping system can be cleaned in one single pass by dry particulates forced by air and the piping system coated in one single pass. Pipes can be protected from water corrosion, erosion and electrolysis. Pipes having diameters of approximately ⅜″ up to approximately 6″ are treatable. Piping systems such as potable water lines, natural gas lines, HVAC, drains, and fire sprinkler systems in homes, apartments, high-rise hotel/resorts, office towers, high-rise apartment and condominiums and schools, can be treated. The coating forms an approximately 4 mils or greater covering inside the pipes. Buildings can return to service within approximately 24 to approximately 96 hours.

The present invention is a device that assists with securing packages of varying sizes to the door or a home, apartment, or business. The device is capable of collapsing when not in use or while hanging on the user's door. Once a package is delivered and dropped into the secured apparatus, only the user will have access to the package by unlocking a pick-up door located on the device's bottom enclosure and retrieving the package from an interior bag. The user may additionally provide an enlarged bag to hang and secure to the outside of the device, if the package is expected to be too large to fit within the bottom enclosure of the apparatus.

A modular system of construction of loft apartment buildings. This type of unit is in high demand in many metropolitan areas, and the modular nature of the inventive buildings allows them to be produced quickly and at low cost. In addition, the invention provides a novel system for interconnecting apartments quickly during construction, providing further cost savings. A mix of apartment types, including handicapped-accessible apartments, may be placed in each building, with the proportions of different apartment types being tailored to the needs of the local market and the constraints of local building codes. The apartment modules may be sized to permit convenient shipping of modules within the constraints of overland shipping regulations.

Particular aspects of the present invention provide novel systems and methods for method for epidemiological and environmental monitoring and assessment, and for active management of human health hazards associated with building environments. In particular aspects, the inventive system and methods are used as a human health and environmental health management tool for corporations (e.g., offices, factories), commercial buildings, condominiums, hotels, resorts, camps, military installations, schools, daycares, cruise ships, real estate developments, towns and cities, prisons, or any other institutional or community settings. In particular aspects, the inventive system and methods are used in a proactive manner to maintain the health of building occupants. Additional aspects provide systems and methods having substantial utility as an investigative tool to substantiate human health claims and correlate underlying environmental factors.

The present invention for a puppy apartment for use by domestic animals includes a container portion and a room divider having a kennel opening thereby allowing the animal to pass between apartment bedroom and bathroom portions. Adjustable apartment boundary regions for bathroom, bedroom, and living areas are adaptably configured to accommodate the pet in a comfortable domestic training environment. The present invention includes a method for providing positive and consistent household pet puppy training with the puppy apartment device.

The embodiment of the invention discloses a furniture simulation layout method and a furniture simulation layout system and belongs to the field of system simulation. The method comprises the following steps: capturing apartment layout drawings of buildings around the position of a terminal and modeling according to the apartment layout drawings to obtain indoor models of the apartment layouts; selecting a target furniture, calling scenes, corresponding to target positions, in the indoor models according to the target positions to which the target furniture is dragged, and displaying a model corresponding to the target furniture in the corresponding scenes in the indoor models; predicating supporting furniture matching with the target furniture according to the attribute of the target furniture, and issuing a model corresponding to the supporting furniture to recommend and display the model in corresponding scenes of the indoor models; and receiving a trigger signal and enabling the supporting furniture to be dragged and placed in the indoor models with the trigger signal. Intuitiveness is achieved by displaying effects with graphs, home furnishing spaces, furniture and the like are simulated and displayed through graphs, and a user can accurately judge whether a piece of furniture meets the selection requirement at a display terminal.

A method of inspecting a physical asset using a mobile computing device is disclosed. Data regarding the asset and its condition is collected on the mobile device by a user, and may include photographs, audio or video recordings, text or other types of data. The data is automatically annotated with the current time and the geo-location of the device. The data is transmitted to a server and saved in a manner such that it may not be modified. This allows for auditing, as well as tracking of the asset over time by comparing data entered at one time with data entered at another time. Reports may be automatically generated from the saved data when desired. Pre-defined fields for data entry may be presented for ease of use. In some embodiments, the asset being inspected is a building, house or apartment.

The invention discloses a browsing method for realizing palm apartment viewing according to 3D galleries and a 3D apartment viewing system. The browsing method includes the following steps: (A) a 3D gallery corresponding to an apartment, which includes 360-degree panoramic images of a plurality of spaces, is obtained and downloaded; (B) the turning state and moving state of a mobile terminal are detected, the panoramic image of one corresponding space is switched to be displayed according to a turning direction, and the currently displayed image is correspondingly changed according to a moving direction. The invention can display the 360-degree panoramic image of each space in the apartment, and a user can enter the different spaces to browse the general view of the apartment according to the turning directions of the mobile terminal, and can view the room layout at any angle by moving the mobile terminal. The palm apartment viewing operation method can be easily comprehended and mastered by users, so user acceptance is high. Meanwhile, 3D images can bring an immersive feeling to users, and can provide more apartment information than planar pictures, consequently, users can conveniently know true apartment rental information, and the experience of users is improved.

The invention provides a method for switching a user terminal between access joints in a WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network) based on AP (Access Point) collaboration. The switching method is mainly used for solving the problems in the prior art that the switching delay is overlong, and the switching mode is single. The method is technically characterized in that two selecting modes including a driving switching mode and a driven switching mode are adopted, wherein the driving switching mode is used for carrying out the switching from a network side; under a condition that a current AP is overloaded, the driving switch can be started for the AP, and an STA (Single Threaded Apartment) of the user terminal is selected from an STA set of the currently-connected user terminal and then is switched into an adjacent AP; if the communication quality of the STA of the user terminal is degraded, the driven switching mode can be automatically started through the STA of the user terminal, and the STA is switched into an optimal AP; and under the driving switching mode and the driven switching mode, channels to be scanned are subjected to priority ranking, and the time for scanning each channel is dynamically adjusted. The switching method has the advantages of less switching delay and high success rate in scanning and can be applied to distribution type wireless local networks with basic network support.

The invention discloses an apartment lease method. The method includes the following steps that: a plurality of kinds of apartment source information of an apartment lease server is obtained; at least one kind of apartment source information is selected as target apartment source information; demand apartment characteristics in the target apartment source information are sent to the apartment lease server; at least one demand apartment according with the demand apartment characteristics is received; a request for checking the basic information of the demand apartments is sent to the apartment lease server; at least one apartment to be leased is selected, a lease transaction request is sent to the apartment lease server; lease transaction feedback information which is corresponding to the lease transaction request and is sent by the apartment lease server is received; and a lease apartment is determined according to the lease transaction feedback information, and the lease transaction of the lease apartment is completed. The invention also discloses an apartment lease system. The apartment lease method provided by the invention provides complete full-chain services from apartment lease to transaction.

Broadband connections of end users to the Internet are becoming more and more common today, and the most common types of these fast connections are ADSL and Cable modems. These connections are typically still very slow compared to the speeds that are expected in the next few years and typically also highly asymmetric and allow typically 750-2000 Kbit per second (most typically 1500 Kbit) for the downlink and typically for example 96 Kbit or 128 Kbit per second for the uplink (although standard ADSL can in principle support up to 8 Mbit per second download speed and up to 800 Kbit per second upload speed), based on the assumption that most users download much more data than they upload. However, for many users these limitations are highly undesirable, and these are for example home users or small businesses or organizations who want to use the connection also for example for VOIP (voice over IP) communications and/or Video-over IP communications and/or conferences and/or for example running web servers and/or for example various p2p applications, and in fact the low uplink also many times slows down the downlink due to the overhead needed for dealing with relatively small packets, so that any additional uplink by the user can severely limit the real downlink that can be achieved below the downlink bandwidth which the user is paying for. Actually ADSL is beginning to be replaced in some places by VDSL where the distance to the nearest street switchboard is about 1.2 Kilometers or less, which in principle allows up to 52 Mbit per second Download speed and up to 16 Mbit per Second Upload speed. However, these modems are expensive and are only slowly entering the market and only in a few countries. On the other hand there is no need to upgrade typical cable modems for enabling faster speeds, such as for example 20 Mbit downlink and 2 Mbit uplink, as is offered for example in France, when the ISPs start offering such speeds—since the typical common cable modem is already capable of such speeds. The present invention enables an improved Ethernet-over-coax solution which enables using one or a few very high speed modems, each for multiple users or apartments, preferably in combination with very cheap and very fast home networks (offering preferably at least up to 100 Mbit per second for each computer, preferably at full duplex), preferably based on the Cable TV coax cables, so that multiple computers can share the same internet connection for example in the same apartment and/or communicate between themselves. This preferably includes using a different frequency for the Ethernet-over coax channel for each computer in the apartment. Also shown are for example improved home networks using the second set of normally unused 2 phone wires and for example some improvement in HPNA networks, such as for example using HPNA also to connect between the street switchboard and the home or office instead of having to use also for example an ADSL or VDSL modem.

The Enviromentally Clean Rechargable Power Supply is a small portable totally electric rechargable source of both 12 volt DC 15 amp electricity and up to 700 watts and 6.5 amps of 110 volt AC electricity. Invention can be recharged with a conventional battery charger. Invention is enviromentally clean and can be operated indoors or outdoors. Uses include but but are not limited to emergency power to light homes and apartments, back up power to operate computers in homes and offices, power for lighting boats and RVs, power to operate trolling motors, charge automotive and marine batteries and provide a source of electricity for camp lighting, radios etc. Larger models can provide power to operate small scooters, go karts etc. with electric drive motors.