US RE44742

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Summary of U.S. Patent No. RE44742

• Title: System and method for remote monitoring and control of devices
• Assignee: IOT Innovations, LLC
• Inventors: Christopher T. Villનાર, II
• Filing Date: June 10, 2013 (This is the filing date of the reissue application. The original patent, 7,974,266, was filed on August 11, 2008).
• Issue Date: February 4, 2014
• Abstract: A system for monitoring and controlling remote devices is disclosed. The system includes a central server, a plurality of gateways, and a plurality of wireless devices. The central server communicates with the gateways over a wide area network, such as the Internet. The gateways communicate with the wireless devices over a local area wireless network, such as a ZigBee or Z-Wave network. The system allows a user to monitor and control the wireless devices from a remote location using a web browser or other client device.

Plain-Language Overview of Independent Claims

• Independent Claim 1: This claim describes a method for a gateway device to manage a local network of wireless devices. The gateway receives a command from a remote server (like one on the internet) to change how it communicates with the local devices, for example, by changing the communication channel. The gateway then sends this channel-change command to the local wireless devices and receives confirmations back from them. Finally, the gateway reports back to the remote server that the communication channel for the local network has been successfully changed.

• Independent Claim 11: This claim outlines a specific gateway device. The gateway has a connection to a wide area network (like the internet) and another connection to a local wireless network. It includes a processor and memory with instructions to perform several actions. These actions involve receiving a command from a remote server to change the communication channel of the local network, sending this command to the local devices, and then confirming to the remote server that the channel has been changed.

• Independent Claim 21: This claim is for a non-transitory computer-readable medium, which is essentially a storage device (like a hard drive or memory) that holds instructions. When a gateway device runs these instructions, it performs the method described in the other independent claims: it receives a command from a remote server to change its local network's communication channel, relays that command to the local devices, and reports the successful change back to the remote server.

In summary, the core invention protected by these independent claims is a gateway device that can remotely manage the communication settings of a local network of wireless devices based on commands from a central server. This allows for centralized control and updating of a large number of distributed wireless networks from a single remote point.

Litigation

As of my last search, this patent is the subject of litigation. A case was filed on April 23, 2026, in the Texas Eastern District Court: IOT Innovations LLC v. Schneider USA Inc (Case 2:26-cv-00334). I have found no records of this patent in the CAFC 2026 dockets at this time.