Adjusting security in response to alert communications

• US 10,165,401 B2
• Filed: 10/19/2017
• Issued: 12/25/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 11/06/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Rabb, Laura
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, An T
• Application Number:
  US15/788,154
• Publication Number:
  US 20180041865A1
• Time in Patent Office: 432 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/00 Burglar, theft or intruder alarms
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/2491 Intrusion detection systems, i.e. where the body of an intruder causes the interference with the electromagnetic field
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 17/00 Fire alarms; Alarms responsive to explosion
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/008 Alarm setting and unsetting, i.e. arming or disarming of the security system
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 29/24 Self-calibration, e.g. compensating for environmental drift or ageing of components
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 5/22 using electric transmission; using electromagnetic transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences

Abstract

Systems and methods of security system settings adjustment are provided, including receiving an alert communication for a predetermined area with a communications interface of a security system, transmitting a notification message from the security system to a pre-selected device in response to the received alert communication, and changing at least one security setting of the security system in response to at least one of the received alert communication.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, at a security system, a communication for a predetermined geographic area from a system that is operated separately from the security system and is unrelated to a security provider, wherein the communication results from a condition within or near the predetermined geographic area;

wherein the communication is received from at least one of the group consisting of;

a law enforcement communication system, a neighborhood alert communication system, a weather-related communications system, and a social network communication system;

automatically reducing at the security system, a time period of an entry allowance setting of the security system of a premises in response to determining that a user is away from the premises and based on the received communication; and

further comprising;

receiving a selection to accept the changing of the entry allowance setting from a preselected mobile device in response to the communication.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

transmitting a message to a designated emergency contact via a communications interface of the security system.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

transmitting at least one of an image and a video stream captured from an image sensor of the security system to at least a preselected mobile device.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

disarming the security system when at least one from the group consisting of a PIN, a security code, and transmitted security authorization information is received by the security system.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

updating the changed entry allowance setting in response to at least one from the group consisting of;

an updated communication, a received selection from a pre-selected mobile device, and a selection received from a user interface of the security system.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

adjusting the sensitivity of at least one sensor of the security system according to a type of the received communication.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

analyzing the communication to determine an alert type; and

changing the entry allowance setting of the security system according to the determined alert type.

8. A security system comprising:

a communications interface to receive a communication for a predetermined geographic area from a system that is operated separately from the security system and is unrelated to a security provider that results from a condition within or near the predetermined geographic area;

wherein the communications interface receives at least one of the communication from at least one of the group consisting of;

a law enforcement communication system, a neighborhood alert communication system, a weather-related communications system, and a social network communication system;

a processor to automatically reduce a time period of an entry allowance setting of the security system in a memory coupled to the processor in response to determining that a user is away from the premises and based on the received communication; and

wherein the communications interface receives a selection to accept the changing of the entry allowance setting from a pre-selected mobile device in response to the received communication.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the communications interface transmits a message to a designated emergency contact with the communications interface of the security system.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein when the entry allowance setting is changed by the processor, the communications interface transmits at least one of an image and a video stream captured from an image sensor of the security system to at least a preselected mobile device.

11. The system of claim 8, wherein when the entry allowance setting is changed, the processor disarms the security system when at least one from the group consisting of a PIN, a security code, and transmitted security authorization information is received by the processor.

12. The system of claim 8, wherein the processor updates the changed entry allowance setting in response to at least one from the group consisting of:

an updated communication, a received selection from a pre-selected mobile device, and a selection received from a user interface of the security system.

13. The system of claim 8, wherein the processor adjusts the sensitivity of at least one sensor of the security system according to a type of the received communication.

14. The system of claim 8, wherein the processor analyzes the communication to determine an alert type, and changes the entry allowance setting of the security system according to the determined alert type.