Patent 10023427 was granted and assigned to Otis Elevator Company on July, 2018 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method for provisioning elevator service includes sensing, by a gesture interface including a sensor, a region in proximity to the gesture interface to obtain data; determining, by the gesture interface, that a first pattern in the data corresponds to a first gesture; and initiating a request for elevator service in response to determining that the first pattern corresponds to the first gesture.