CHRONOLOGICAL ACTIVITY MONITORING AND REVIEW

• US 20150296187A1
• Filed: 04/11/2014
• Published: 10/15/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/11/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Vivint Incorporated (NRG Energy, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Vivint Incorporated (NRG Energy, Inc.)
• Inventors: Baldwin, Kenneth
• Granted Patent: US 9,728,055 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19678 User interface
• 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 13/19691 Signalling events for better perception by user, e.g. indicating alarms by making display brighter, adding text, creating a sound
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19693 using multiple video sources viewed on a single or compound screen
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19697 Arrangements wherein non-video detectors generate an alarm themselves
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/181 for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources

Abstract

A computer-implemented method for monitoring activity at a location, provides receiving a first data signal and a second data signal, wherein the first and second data signals are related to activities detected at a location, and reproducing the first and second data signals in a chronology that indicates relative timing of receipt of the first and second data signals via a user interface. This may accelerate review and inspection of multiple data signals recorded over time, including data signals of various types. The coincidence of patterns in the data signals may be detected and brought to the user'"'"'s attention for closer review, such as via transmission of a message or transmission of a segment of recorded data.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for monitoring activity at a location, the method comprising:

receiving a first data signal and a second data signal, the first and second data signals being related to activities detected at a location; and

reproducing the first and second data signals in a chronology, the chronology indicating relative timing of receipt of the first and second data signals via a user interface.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first data signal comprises output from a first activity detector, and the second data signal comprises output from a second activity detector, the first and second activity detectors each detecting activity at the location.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the first activity detector transduces a first type of activity and the second activity detector transduces a second type of activity, the first and second types of activity being different from each other.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein at least one of the first and second activity detectors transduces at the location at least one of a group comprising light, sound, pressure, or movement.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein at least one of the first and second activity detectors detects a radio signal emitted from a portable device at the location.

6. The method of claim 2, wherein at least one of the first and second activity detectors detects interaction of a user with a device at the location.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the chronology comprises a visual representation of the first and second data signals.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining that a threshold condition has been met by at least one of the first and second data signals; and

indicating that the threshold condition has been met by the at least one of the first and second data signals in the chronology.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a time indicator via the user interface; and

displaying the chronology for the time indicator via the user interface.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a plurality of data signals related to activities detected at the location;

identifying a third data signal in the plurality of data signals; and

reproducing the third data signal in the chronology, the chronology indicating relative timing of receipt of the third data signal relative to the first and second data signals via the user interface.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

receiving a time indicator via the user interface; and

wherein the third data signal is identified in the plurality of data signals based on activity detected in the third data signal at the time indicator.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the third data signal is identified in the plurality of data signals based on activity in the third data signal corresponding with activity in at least one of the first and second data signals.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the third data signal is identified in the plurality of data signals based on being related to at least one of the first and second data signals.

14. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a time indicator via the user interface; and

transmitting at least a portion of the first and second data signals received at the time indicator.

15. A computer program product for monitoring activity at a location, the computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions executable by a processor to:

receive a first data signal and a second data signal, the first and second data signals being related to activities detected at a location; and

reproduce the first and second data signals in a chronology, the chronology indicating relative timing of receipt of the first and second data signals via a user interface.

16. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein the first data signal comprises output from a first activity detector and the second data signal comprises output from a second activity detector, the first and second activity detectors each detecting activity at the location.

17. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein the instructions are further executable to:

receive a plurality of data signals related to activities detected at the location;

identify a third data signal in the plurality of data signals; and

reproduce the third data signal in the chronology, the chronology indicating relative timing of receipt of the third data signal relative to the first and second data signals via the user interface.

18. An apparatus for monitoring activity at a location, comprising:

a processor;

a memory in electronic communication with the processor; and

instructions stored in the memory, the instructions being executable by a processor to;

receive a first data signal and a second data signal, the first and second data signals being related to activities detected at a location; and

reproduce the first and second data signals in a chronology, the chronology indicating relative timing of receipt of the first and second data signals via a user interface.

19. The apparatus of claim 18, wherein the first data signal comprises output from a first activity detector and the second data signal comprises output from a second activity detector, the first and second activity detectors each detecting activity at the location.

20. The apparatus of claim 18, wherein the instructions are further executable to:

receive a plurality of data signals related to activities detected at the location;

identify a third data signal in the plurality of data signals; and

reproduce the third data signal in the chronology, the chronology indicating relative timing of receipt of the third data signal relative to the first and second data signals via the user interface.