PRESENTING LOCATIONS OF USERS AND STATUS OF DEVICES

• US 20150341375A1
• Filed: 11/19/2014
• Published: 11/26/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/22/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Operational Data Analytics, LLC
• Original Assignee: Operational Data Analytics, LLC
• Inventors: BAUER, Hal G., GILSTER, Norman T., HATHAWAY, Eugene E., VILLENEUVE, Robert J.
• Application Number:
  US14/547,629
• Publication Number:
  US 20150341375A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/14 Central alarm receiver or annunciator arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/107 wherein the security policies are location-dependent, e.g. entities privileges depend on current location or allowing specific operations only from locally connected terminals

Abstract

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions stored thereon. When executed by at least one processor, the instructions may be configured to cause a computing system to at least maintain at least a first location of a first access monitor and a second location of a second access monitor, receive at least a first notification of access to the first access monitor by a user and a second notification of access to the second access monitor by the user, determine a location of the user based on the maintained first location and second location and the received first notification and/or second notification, and present the determined location of the user.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions stored thereon that, when executed by at least one processor, are configured to cause a computing system to at least:

maintain at least a first location of a first access monitor and a second location of a second access monitor;

receive at least a first notification of access to the first access monitor by a user and a second notification of access to the second access monitor by the user;

determine a location of the user based on the maintained first location and second location and the received first notification and/or second notification; and

present the determined location of the user.

2. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein:

the second notification was more recent than the first notification; and

the determining the location of the user includes determining the location of the user based on the maintained second location and the second notification.

3. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 2, wherein:

the second access monitor is associated with a building; and

the determining the location of the user includes determining whether the user is inside the building based on;

the second notification of access by the user to the second access monitor associated with the building; and

whether the user was inside the building before the second notification.

4. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the instructions are configured to cause the computing system to present the location of the user via a web browser.

5. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the instructions are configured to cause the computing system to present the location of the user in response to an emergency notification, the presenting the location of the user including indicating whether the user is in an emergency area.

6. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein:

the user is a first user; and

the instructions are further configured to cause the computing system to;

receive a third notification of access to the first access monitor by a second user;

determine a location of the second user based on the maintained first location and second location and the received third notification; and

present the determined location of the first user and the determined location of the second user.

7. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the instructions are further configured to cause the computing system to:

receive additional notifications of access to the first access monitor and the second access monitor by additional users; and

present a number of users in the first location in response to an emergency notification, the emergency notification being associated with the first location.

8. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 7, wherein the presenting the number of users includes presenting the number of users in the first location and images associated with the users in the first location in response to the emergency notification.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the instructions are further configured to cause the computing system to:

maintain a status of the first access monitor and a status of the second access monitor,

wherein the presenting the determined location includes presenting the determined location of the user, the status of the first access monitor, and the status of the second access monitor.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the instructions are further configured to cause the computing system to maintain data associated with a deleted location.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the presenting the location of the user includes determining a presentation size for a mobile device.

12. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions stored thereon that, when executed by at least one processor, are configured to cause a computing system to at least:

maintain locations and types of a plurality of access monitors;

retrieve estimated lifetimes of the plurality of access monitors based on the types of the plurality of access monitors;

determine when the plurality of access monitors are approaching an end of their estimated lifetimes; and

indicate locations of access monitors that are approaching the end of their estimated lifetimes.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein the instructions are further configured to cause the computing system to:

receive a threshold from an administrator,

wherein the determining includes determining when the plurality of access monitors are approaching the end of their estimated lifetimes based in part on the received threshold.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein:

the estimated lifetimes are time durations; and

the determining includes comparing an age of the access monitor to the time duration.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein:

the estimated lifetimes are time durations; and

the determining includes comparing a time of first use of the access monitor to the time duration.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein:

the estimated lifetimes are lifetime accesses to the access monitors; and

the determining includes;

maintaining a number of accesses to the access monitors; and

comparing the number of accesses to the access monitor to the lifetime accesses.

17. An electronic security system comprising:

a plurality of access monitors configured to send, in response to access requests from any of a plurality of users, access notifications to a computing system; and

the computing system configured to;

maintain locations and types of the plurality of access monitors;

retrieve estimated lifetimes of the plurality of access monitors based on the types of the plurality of access monitors;

receive the access notifications from the plurality of access monitors;

increment usage values associated with the plurality of access monitors in response to receiving the access notifications;

determine when the plurality of access monitors are approaching an end of their estimated lifetimes;

indicate locations of access monitors that are approaching the end of their estimated lifetimes;

update locations associated with the users based on the maintained locations of the plurality of access monitors and the received access notifications; and

present the updated locations.

18. The electronic security system of claim 17, wherein the computing system is further configured to generate reports with respect to locations of the access monitors, the reports including:

which users entered at least one of the locations;

when the users entered the at least one of the locations; and

how long the users were in the at least one of the locations.

19. The electronic security system of claim 17, wherein the computing system is further configured to present, in response to a notification of an emergency event:

a number of users that are in an endangered area;

identities of the users that are in the endangered area; and

images associated with the users that are in the endangered area.

20. The electronic security system of claim 17, wherein the computing system is further configured to maintain data associated with a deleted location.