VOICE ALERT METHODS AND SYSTEMS

• US 20150235540A1
• Filed: 02/27/2015
• Published: 08/20/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/24/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Verna IP Holdings, LLC (Ortiz & Lopez PLLC)
• Original Assignee: Verna IP Holdings, LLC (Ortiz & Lopez PLLC)
• Inventors: Verna, Anthony, Ortiz, Luis M., Lopez, Kermit D.
• Application Number:
  US14/633,709
• Publication Number:
  US 20150235540A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/02 Alarms for ensuring the safety of persons
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/012 using recorded signals, e.g. speech G08B25/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/10 using wireless transmission systems G08B25/009 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 13/00 Speech synthesis; Text to speech systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/18504 Aircraft used as relay or high altitude atmospheric platform
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/38 Arrangements for distribution where lower stations, e.g. receivers, interact with the broadcast
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/105 Multiple levels of security
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 11/04 with alarm systems, e.g. fire, police or burglar alarm systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/14 Short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/042 Public Land Mobile systems, e.g. cellular systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/12 WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]

Abstract

Methods, systems, and processor-readable media for providing instant/real-time voice alerts automatically to remote electronic devices. An activity can be detected utilizing one or more sensors. A text message indicative of the activity can be generated and converted into a digitized voice alert. The activity can also be a live utterance (e.g., a live announcement), which can then be instantly converted into a digitized voice alert for automatic delivery in a selected series of languages following the base language (e.g., English). The combined digitized voice alert can then be instantly transmitted through a network for broadcast of consecutive alerts (e.g., English followed by Spanish followed by Vietnamese, etc.) to one or more remote electronic devices that communicates with the network for an automatic audio announcement of the digitized voice alert through the one or more remote electronic devices.

Claims

1. A method for providing instant voice alerts automatically to remote electronic devices, said method comprising:

detecting a condition or activity at a premises utilizing at least one sensor via a monitoring system also located at the premises and connected to a data network;

generating a message indicative of said condition or activity into a data file that can be rendered on a remote electronic device as a digitized voice alert; and

transmitting the data file through the data network for receipt by at least one remote electronic device that is registered to communicate remotely with the monitoring system and receive messages over the data network for rendering of the digitized voice alert from the data file.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising configuring the at least one sensor to communicate via wire or wirelessly with the monitoring system and the monitoring system communicates with the at least one remote electronic device over the data network.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the monitoring system includes an intelligent router and the at least one sensor is configured to communicate via a wire or wirelessly with the intelligent router that thereafter communicates with said network.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one sensor includes at least one of:

a security sensor, a surveillance sensor, a smoke detector, a fire detector, a carbon monoxide detector, an energy usage monitoring sensor, a door or window opening sensor, and a flood sensor.

5. The method of claim 1 further comprising configuring said at least one sensor to comprise a self-contained computer that communicates with said network.

6. The method of claim 1 further comprising broadcasting said digitized voice message through said at least one remote electronic device in at least one language based on a language setting in a user profile.

7. The method of claim 6 further comprising pre-selecting said at least one language in said user profile.

8. The method of claim 6 further comprising establishing said user profile as a user preference via a server during a setup of said at least one remote electronic device.

9. The method of claim 6 further comprising establishing said user profile as a user preference via an intelligent router during a setup of said at least one remote electronic device.

10. The method of claim 6 further comprising during a setup of said at least one remote electronic device, selecting said at least one language from a plurality of different languages.

11. The method of claim 1 further comprising converting said digitized voice message into more than one language from among a plurality of languages for broadcast of said digitized voice alert in consecutively different languages through said at least one remote electronic device.

12. A system for providing instant voice alerts automatically to remote electronic devices, said system comprising:

a processor;

a data bus coupled to the processor; and

a computer-usable medium embodying computer code, the computer-usable medium being coupled to said data bus, the computer program code comprising instructions executable by said processor and configured for;

detecting a condition or activity at a premises utilizing at least one sensor via a monitoring system also located at the premises and connected to a data network;

generating a message indicative of said condition or activity into a data file that can be rendered on a remote electronic device as a digitized voice alert; and

transmitting the data file through the data network for receipt by at least one remote electronic device that is registered to communicate remotely with the monitoring system and receive messages over the data network for rendering of the digitized voice alert from the data file.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the at least one sensor communicates with at least one of a monitoring system, intelligent router, and server, that in-turn communicates with said network.

14. The system of claim 12, wherein the at least one sensor includes at least one of:

a security sensor, a surveillance sensor, a smoke detector, a fire detector, a carbon monoxide detector, an energy usage monitoring sensor, a door or window opening sensor, and a flood sensor.

15. The system of claim 13, wherein the at least one sensor includes at least one of:

a security sensor, a surveillance sensor, a smoke detector, a fire detector, a carbon monoxide detector, an energy usage monitoring sensor, a door or window opening sensor, and a flood sensor.

16. The system of claim 12, wherein the instructions are further configured for broadcasting the digitized voice message through the at least one remote electronic device in at least one language based on a language setting in a user profile.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the instructions are further configured for allowing a pre-selection of the at least one language in said user profile.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein said instructions are further configured during a set up of said at least one remote electronic device for selecting said at least one language from a plurality of different languages.

19. The system of claim 12, wherein the instructions are further configured for converting the digitized voice message into more than one language from among a plurality of languages for broadcast of the digitized voice alert in consecutively different languages through the at least one remote electronic device.

20. A processor-readable medium storing code representing instructions to cause a processor to perform a process to automatically provide an instant voice announcement to remote electronic devices, said code comprising of code to:

detect a condition or activity at a premises utilizing at least one sensor via a monitoring system also located at the premises and connected to a data network;

automatically convert the detected condition or activity into a digitized voice message indicative of the detected condition or activity in response to detection of the condition or activity;

generate a message indicative of said condition or activity into a data file that can be rendered on a remote electronic device as a digitized voice alert; and

transmit the data file through the data network for receipt by at least one remote electronic device that is registered to communicate remotely with the monitoring system and receive messages over the data network for rendering of the digitized voice alert from the data file.