Security system and method with information display in flip window

• US 20140223348A1
• Filed: 12/06/2013
• Published: 08/07/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/10/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP (Johnson Controls International plc)
• Original Assignee: Tyco Safety Products Canada Limited (Johnson Controls International plc)
• Inventors: Champagne, Luc, Labrecque, Gabriel
• Application Number:
  US14/098,947
• Publication Number:
  US 20140223348A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/771
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/1968 Interfaces for setting up or customising the system
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19682 Graphic User Interface [GUI] presenting system data to the user, e.g. information on a screen helping a user interacting with an alarm system
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/14 Central alarm receiver or annunciator arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 29/16 Security signalling or alarm systems, e.g. redundant systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/10 for controlling access to devices or network resources
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/181 for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources

Abstract

A user-centric management application system and method for a security system that conceptualizes the security devices and the tasks to perform on the security devices as separate objects with common properties and behavior. Operators of the system create abstract containers, called dockviews, which the operator adds objects to in order to perform specific tasks. Because the operator assigns user access to dockviews and objects, the system tailors system access for both application users and tenants of the security system based on policy objectives. Dockviews have the ability to open in separate application windows to support priority display and isolation of critical management tasks. The system provides integrated user administration, event management and reports capability, a consistent “look and feel,” and system-wide automated event notification via a watchlist window.

Claims

1. A method for organizing and presenting object information for objects in a security system, comprising:

displaying graphical user interfaces on user devices; and

displaying the object information for the objects in a window of the graphical user interfaces makes a graphical conversion to enable the display of additional object information.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying the additional object information by providing the graphical conversion as a flip window that rotates about a flip axis.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the displaying of the additional object information in the window is enabled when the object information does not fit within one or more working areas of the window.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the displaying of the additional object information in the window occurs in response to an operator selecting a flip button of the window.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein in response to an operator selecting a flip button of the window, the window rotates about the flip axis in a flip direction.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying the object information in the window using object icons for the objects in the security system.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the object information displayed in the window includes user information for access cards and video streams from security cameras.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the user information includes a user picture.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the object information displayed in the window is organized by an object type for the objects in the security system.

10. A security system, comprising:

graphical user interfaces on user devices for organizing and displaying object information from objects of the security system which communicate over a security network; and

one or more windows of the graphical user interfaces for enabling the display of additional object information from the objects of the security system.

11. The security system of claim 10, wherein the windows include a flip button that the operator selects for rotating the windows for displaying the additional object information.

12. The security system of claim 10, wherein the additional object information is displayed by rotating the windows about a flip axis.

13. The security system of claim 10, wherein the windows include a flip button that the operator selects for rotating the windows for displaying the additional object information.

14. The security system of claim 10, wherein the windows display the additional object information when the object information does not fit within one or more working areas of the windows.

15. The security system of claim 10, wherein the object information displayed in the windows include user information for access cards and video streams from security cameras.

16. The security system of claim 10, wherein the user information includes a user picture.

17. The security system of claim 10, wherein the object information displayed in the windows is organized by an object type for the objects in the security system.

18. A method for organizing and presenting object information for objects in a security system, comprising:

displaying graphical user interfaces on user devices; and

displaying the object information for the objects in a window of the graphical user interfaces by rendering the window in a graphics plane that suggests a curved image surface to enable the display of additional object information.