False alarm avoidance

• US 10,068,077 B2
• Filed: 02/11/2014
• Issued: 09/04/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 02/11/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP (Johnson Controls International plc)
• Original Assignee: Tyco Fire & Security GmbH (Johnson Controls International plc)
• Inventors: Mucci, Anthony, Garavuso, Michael
• Primary Examiner(s): Li, Meng
• Application Number:
  US14/177,432
• Publication Number:
  US 20150227734A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,666 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/32 using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voiceprints
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19684 Portable terminal, e.g. mobile phone, used for viewing video remotely
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/065 Continuous authentication

Abstract

Among other things, a system comprises a processor device, a memory in communication with the processor device, and a storage device that stores a program of computing instructions for execution by the processor using the memory. The program comprises instructions configured to cause the processor to receive from a user device biometric information of a user requesting access to the security system. The biometric information is associated with the user in possession of the user device. The processor is also caused to analyze the received biometric information to determine whether the user in possession of the device is a person authorized to access the security system with the user device. If the user is determined to be authorized, the user is allowed to access the security system.

Claims

1. A central monitoring system comprising:

a subscriber database under control of a database engine, the subscriber database including entries corresponding to plural subscriber control panels in physical proximity to and associated with corresponding plural security systems monitored by the central monitoring system station;

one or more server computer systems in communication with the subscriber database that are configured to cause the central monitoring system to;

receive from a user device that is registered with a particular one of the plural security systems, a request to control the particular security system, with the request specifying one or more control actions to perform on a given one of the plural subscriber control panels, which corresponds to the particular one of the plural security systems;

send a request to the user device to acquire user biometric information, the request specifying a particular live action for the user to perform on the given one of the plural subscriber control panels using the registered user device;

receive from the user device, the acquired biometric information of the user in current possession of the registered user device;

retrieve from the subscriber database stored authentication information including biometric information for a registered user that the central monitoring system has associated with the registered user device, and associated with the particular security system by the central monitoring system;

analyze the received biometric information of the user in current possession of the user device and the retrieved stored authentication information to determine whether there is a match between the retrieved biometric information and the received biometric information, and when there is a match,

determine whether a security system that is linked to the stored biometric information matches the particular security system the user requests to access;

determine a level of access to the security system that is linked to the stored biometric information; and

grant access from the user device to the security system that is linked to the stored biometric information, when the central monitoring system determines based on the determined level of access that the user is authorized to perform the specified one or more control actions from the user device to access the security system that is linked to the stored biometric information.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the biometric information comprises facial features and analyzing the received biometric information comprises a facial recognition analysis.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the biometric information comprises voice features and analyzing the received biometric information comprises a voice recognition analysis.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the biometric information comprises one or more fingerprints and analyzing the received biometric information comprises a figure print analysis.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the instructions to analyze the received biometric information comprises instructions to compare the received biometric information with biometric information of authorized users that is stored in a database.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the user device is a mobile device.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to:

determine the level of authorization to be granted to the user based on the determined level of access; and

send a message to the security system that is linked to the stored biometric information to cause the security system linked to the stored biometric information to grant the user the determined level of access.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein said determined level of access includes a predetermined set of actions that the user is allowed to initiate on the security system that is linked to the stored biometric information.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the system comprising the processor device, the memory, and the storage device is part of the system that is physically remote to the security system that is linked to the stored biometric information.

10. The system of claim 7 wherein the user device is a mobile user device.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the system comprising the processor device, the memory, and the storage device is in communication with multiple security systems including the particular security system, and the system grants the user access to the security system that is linked to the stored biometric information, which is one of the multiple security systems.

15. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to:

determine the level of authorization to be granted to the user based on the determined level of access;

send a message to the security system that is linked to the stored biometric information that causes the security system that is linked to the stored biometric information to grant the user the determined level of access from a mobile user device.

12. A method executed by a remote server system including a subscriber database under control of a database engine, the subscriber database including entries corresponding to plural subscriber control panels in physical proximity to and associated with plural security systems that are serviced by the central monitoring station, the method comprising:

receiving by the remote server system from a user device registered with a particular security system, a user request to execute a security system control action, with the user request specifying one or more control actions on a given one of the plural subscriber control panels, which corresponds to the particular one of the plural security systems;

sending by the remote server system a request to the user device to acquire user biometric information, the request specifying a particular live action for the user to perform on the given one of the plural subscriber control panels using the registered user device;

receiving by the remote server system from the user device, the acquired biometric information of the user in current possession of the registered user device;

retrieving by the remote server system from the subscriber database, stored authentication information including biometric information for a registered user that the remote server system has associated with the registered user device, and associated with the particular security system by the remote server system;

analyzing, by the remote server system the received biometric information of the user in current possession of the user device and the retrieved stored authentication information to determine whether there is a match between the retrieved biometric information and the received biometric information and when there is a match,

determining by the remote server system whether a security system that is linked to the stored biometric information matches the particular security system the user requests to access;

determine by the remote sever system a level of access to the security system that is linked to the stored biometric information; and

granting by the remote sever system access from the user device to the security system that is linked to the stored biometric information, when the system determines based on the determined level of access that the user is authorized to perform the specified one or more control actions from the user device to access the security system that is linked to the stored biometric information.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the biometric information comprises facial features and analyzing the received biometric information comprises a facial recognition analysis.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the biometric information comprises voice features and analyzing the received biometric information comprises a voice recognition analysis.

16. The method of claim 12 further comprising:

determining by the remote server the level of authorization to be granted to the user based on the determined level of access;

sending by the remote server, a message to the security system that is linked to the stored biometric information that causes the security system that is linked to the stored biometric information to grant the user the determined level of access from a mobile user device.