Method and System for Communication

• US 20140219431A1
• Filed: 12/24/2011
• Published: 08/07/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/24/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Axxess Industries, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Axxess Industries, Inc.
• Inventors: Wagner, Joerg, Wagner, Corey
• Granted Patent: US 9,060,074 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 379/167.02
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 11/025 Door telephones adapted for television H04N7/186

Abstract

A method and system for establishing a communication session between a plurality of communication terminals in an intercom system is disclosed. One of the communication terminals is associated with a room, dwelling, residence, or building structure and is configured to generate a request for establishing a communication session with one or more other mobile communication terminals associated with the room, dwelling, residence, or building structure. The communication session includes one or more of transmission and reception of one or more of an audio, a video, a multimedia, an image, a text and any other form of data that may be transmitted and received by the plurality of communication terminals. The communication session may include transmission and reception of one or more signals such as, but not limited to, an audio, a video, a multimedia, an image, a text and any other form of data by the plurality of communication terminals.

Claims

1. A communication terminal associated with an outside entrance of a room, dwelling, residence, enclosed space, or building structure, the communication terminal configured to generate a request for establishing a communication session with one of a plurality of communication terminals associated with a user of an interior of the room, dwelling, residence, enclosed space, or building structure, wherein the communication session is established with one of the plurality of communication terminals associated with the user based on a predetermined policy or based on a user selection of a communication terminal from the plurality of communication terminals.

2. The communication terminal of claim 1, wherein the request is generated upon detecting the presence of a user or object in proximity to the communication terminal associated with an outside entrance of a room, dwelling, residence, enclosed space, or building structure.

3. The communication terminal of claim 1, wherein the communication terminal is configured to collect identity information pertaining to a person or object in the proximity of the entrance to the room, dwelling, residence, enclosed space, or building structure and to transmit the identity information to the user or a third party.

4. The communication terminal of claim 3, wherein a response is automatically generated based on a user defined policy and the communication session includes providing the automatically generated response to the communication terminal.

5. The communication terminal of claim 1, wherein the communication terminal is configured to transmit the request through an intermediate processing unit, the intermediate processing unit configured to select which one of the plurality of communication terminals associated with the user to establish the communications session with based on the predetermined policy or based on the user selection of a communication terminal from the plurality of communication terminals.

6. The communication terminal of claim 1, wherein the communication terminal is configured to determine an identity of a person or object in the proximity of the entrance to the room, dwelling, residence, or building structure.

7. The communication terminal of claim 6, wherein the communication terminal is configured to communicate with an intermediate processing unit and wherein one of the communication terminal or intermediate processing unit determine when a predefined condition is met with regard to the identified person or object.

8. A method comprising:

generating a request at a first communication terminal associated with the outside of a room, dwelling, residence, enclosed space, or building structure for establishing a communication session with a second communication terminal, the second communication terminal selected from a plurality of communication terminals associated with a user of the interior of the room, dwelling, residence, enclosed space, or building structure;

transmitting the request to the second communication terminal, the second communication terminal selected from a plurality of communication terminals associated with a user of an interior of the room, dwelling, residence, enclosed space, or building structure, wherein the second communication terminal is selected based on a predetermined policy;

receiving a response to the request by the first communication terminal from the second communication terminal; and

establishing a communication session between the first communication terminal and the second communication terminal.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the request is generated upon detecting the presence of a user or object in proximity to the first communication terminal.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the response is automatically generated based on a user defined policy and establishing a communication session includes automatically communicating a predetermined response to the first communication terminal.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein the request is transmitted to the second communication terminal through an intermediate processing unit, the intermediate processing unit configured to select which one or more of the plurality of communication terminals associated with the user to establish the communications session with based on the predetermined policy or based on a user selection of a communication terminal from the plurality of communication terminals.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein the first communication terminal is configured to collect identity information pertaining to an identity of a person or object in the proximity of the entrance to the room, dwelling, residence, enclosed space, or building structure.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the first communication terminal communicates with an intermediate processing unit and the first communication terminal or the intermediate processing unit determines whether a predefined condition is met with regard to the identified person or object.

14. An intercom system comprising:

a communication terminal associated with an outside entrance to a room, dwelling, residence, enclosed space, or building structure, the communication terminal configured to generate a request for establishing a communication session with one or more other communication terminals associated with a user of the interior of the room, residence, enclosed space, or building structure and

an intermediate processing unit for receiving the request from the communication terminal and determining with which of the one or more other communication terminals to establish the communication session, wherein at least of the one or more other communication terminals include at least one of a cellular based mobile phone, a wired phone, or a wireless network device.

15. The intercom system of claim 14, wherein the communication terminal associated with the outside entrance of the room, dwelling, residence, enclosed space, or building structure is configured to:

transmit the request to the intermediate processing unit;

receive a response to the request from the one or more mobile communication terminals or from the intermediate processing unit; and

establish a communication session between the communication terminal and the one or more mobile communication terminals or between the communication terminal and the intermediate processing unit.

16. The intercom system of claim 14, wherein the request is generated upon detecting the presence of a user or object in proximity to the communication terminal.

17. The intercom system of claim 14, wherein the response is automatically generated based on a user defined policy and the communication session includes providing the automatically generated response to the communication terminal.

18. The intercom system of claim 14, wherein the communication terminal is configured to determine an identity of a person or object in the proximity of the entrance to the room, dwelling, residence, enclosed space, or building structure.

19. The intercom system of claim 18, wherein the first communication terminal or the intermediate processing unit determines whether a predefined condition is met with regard to the identified person or object.

20. The intercom system of claim 18 implemented with a user defined policy or a non-user defined policy, wherein determination of which of the one or more other communication terminals to establish the communication session with is determined by at least one of the user defined policy or the non-user defined policy.

21. A device comprising:

an input device to collect identifying information pertaining to a person or object in the proximity of the device and

a transmitter device to transmit the identifying information to at least one of a user of the device, a third party, or one or more database systems for analysis based on at least one predefined algorithm, the predefined algorithm defined by a user of the monitoring device, for the user of the monitoring device, by a public entity, or by a private entity.

22. A method comprising:

receiving from one or more monitoring devices identifying information pertaining to a person or object in the proximity of the monitoring device,

comparing the identifying information received from the one or more monitoring devices to information in one or more database systems based on at least one predefined algorithm, the predefined algorithm defined by a user of the monitoring device, for the user of the monitoring device, by a public entity, or by a private entity; and

transmitting to the user of the monitoring device the result of the comparison, wherein at least one of receiving, comparing, and transmitting are implemented in computer hardware.

23. The method of claim 22, further comprising assessing a fee for the comparison to the user of the device.

24. The method of claim 22, wherein the comparison is performed by the monitoring device or by a mobile device associated with the user.

25. The method of claim 22, wherein the comparison is performed remotely from the monitoring device or remotely from a mobile device associated with the user.