Methods of and devices for filtering triggered alarm signals

• US 10,380,880 B1
• Filed: 03/28/2017
• Issued: 08/13/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 11/14/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Instant Care, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Instant Care, Inc.
• Inventors: Darling, Richard Allen, Chang, Fong-Min, Tai, Chih-Cheng
• Primary Examiner(s): Mortell, John F
• Application Number:
  US15/471,323
• Time in Patent Office: 868 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/001 Alarm cancelling procedures or alarm forwarding decisions, e.g. based on absence of alarm confirmation
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/003 Address allocation methods and details
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/016 Personal emergency signalling and security systems emergency non-personal manually actuated alarm activators G08B25/12
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 29/185 Signal analysis techniques for reducing or preventing false alarms or for enhancing the reliability of the system

Abstract

A method of the device for reducing false alarm notification to call center comprises receiving a triggered abnormal status notification by a user'"'"'s device and having a user to assist processing information of the notification or filtering false alarms before the notification is transmitted to/processed by a call center. The filtering of the false alarms can be achieved by using a dismiss button on a touchscreen, receiving a user'"'"'s voice command, and/or verifying the user'"'"'s identity and permission level using one or more biometric identifiers.

Claims

1. A method of reducing a false alarm notification to a call center comprising:

detecting an abnormal event that represents an emergency degree that exceeds a predetermined substantial amount/ratio;

generating a triggered notification in response to occurrence of the abnormal event;

receiving the triggered notification of a security sensor on a user'"'"'s mobile device;

filtering the triggered notification on the user'"'"'s mobile device, wherein the filtering comprises dismissing a false alarm of the triggered notification by verifying the identity and permission level of the user on the user'"'"'s mobile device, highlighting the abnormal event by providing an enlarged image of the abnormal event, providing assisting information to the call center by allowing the user to provide a text or verbal description, wherein the text or verbal description comprises a text or verbal entering message box, providing one or more close-up headshots of a person'"'"'s captured image by an image analyzing software, and comparing the one or more headshots in a database using the image analyzing software and generating potential matches, wherein the dismissing the false alarm is permitted by prompting the user to perform an eye scan; and

reducing resources needed at the call center for providing adequate service level according to the filtered triggered notification.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the filtering comprises enabling the user to request a service.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the triggered notification comprises a triggered security alarm.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the triggered notification comprises a non-emergency event notification.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the non-emergency event notification comprises a general maintenance notification.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the general maintenance notification comprises a low battery notification, a service issue notification, or a combination thereof.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the non-predetermined parameters comprise not-preset selections.

8. A method of reducing a number of false alarm to a call center comprising:

monitoring a premise using one or more sensors;

generating a triggered signal when the one or more sensors detects an abnormal thermal event that represents an emergency degree that exceeds a predetermined substantial amount/ratio;

sending the triggered signal of a security sensor to a user'"'"'s mobile device;

prompting the user to dismiss the triggered signal for filtering the triggered signal through providing the user a visual effect on the user'"'"'s mobile device, wherein the filtering comprises highlighting the abnormal thermal event by providing an enlarged image of the abnormal thermal event, providing assisting information to the call center by allowing the user to provide a text or verbal description, wherein the text or verbal description comprises a text or verbal entering message box, providing one or more close-up headshots of a person'"'"'s captured image by an image analyzing software, and comparing the one or more headshots in a database using the image analyzing software and generating potential matches; and

reducing resources needed at the call center for providing adequate service level according to the filtered triggered signal.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising enabling the user to confirm a trigger emergency event using the user'"'"'s mobile device.

10. The method of claim 8, further comprising prompting the user to dismiss the triggered signal by entering a command on a computer generated graphic user interface (GUI) button.

11. The method of claim 8, further comprising enabling the user to dismiss the triggered signal by entering a command using a non-GUI based mechanism.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the non-GUI based mechanism comprises a voice command to dismiss the triggered signal.

13. The method of claim 8, further comprising using the user'"'"'s mobile device to control an alarm system connected with the one or more sensors.

14. The method of claim 8, wherein the visual effects including a temperature profile of the abnormal thermal event.

15. The communication system of claim 8, wherein the text or verbal description comprises a text or verbal entering message box.

16. The communication system of claim 8, wherein the notifying device comprises pre-stored local law enforcement phone number or pre-stored recording message.