DIGITIZED VOICE ALERTS

• US 20180152532A1
• Filed: 11/27/2017
• Published: 05/31/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 05/24/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Verna IP Holdings, LLC (Ortiz & Lopez PLLC)
• Original Assignee: Vienna IP Holdings LLC
• Inventors: Verna, Anthony, Ortiz, Luis M., Lopez, Kermit D.
• Granted Patent: US 10,282,960 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• 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 communicate with the network for an automatic audio announcement of the digitized voice alert through the one or more remote electronic devices.

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

registering remote electronic devices to receive notifications via wireless data communications networks from a monitoring system including data files comprising digitized voice alerts;

generating and converting a text message indicative of an activity into a data file to be rendered on a remote electronic device as a digitized voice alert, wherein said activity comprises an activity detected at a premises utilizing at least one sensor via a monitoring system also located at the premises and connected to a packetized data network; and

transmitting said data file through the packetized data network for receipt by at least one remote electronic device that is registered to communicate remotely with the monitoring system and to receive messages over the packetized data network for rendering of the digitized voice alert from the data file and that communicates with said data network via wireless data communications, wherein the data file is processed at the at least one remote electronic device for an automatic audio announcement of said digitized voice alert through said at least one remote electronic device.

22. The method of claim 21 wherein said at least one sensor communicates wirelessly with at least one of the monitoring system, an intelligent router, and a server that in turn communicates with said data network.

23. The method of claim 21 wherein said at least one sensor comprises a security sensor.

24. The method of claim 21 wherein said at least one sensor comprises a surveillance sensor.

25. The method of claim 21 wherein said at least one sensor comprises a smoke detector.

26. The method of claim 21 wherein said at least one sensor comprises a fire detector.

27. method of claim 21 wherein said at least one sensor comprises a carbon monoxide detector.

28. The method of claim 21 wherein said at least one sensor comprises an energy usage monitoring sensor.

29. The method of claim 21 wherein said at least one sensor comprises a door opening sensor.

30. The method of claim 21 wherein said at least one sensor comprises a window opening sensor.

31. The method of claim 21 wherein said at least one sensor comprises a flood sensor.

32. The method of claim 21 wherein said at least one of sensor includes:

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, a flood sensor, and communicates with an intelligent router that communicates with said packetized data network.

33. The method of claim 21 wherein said 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, a flood sensor, and communicates with said at least one remote electronic device through said packetized data network.

34. The method of claim 21 wherein said instructions are further-configured for 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,

35. The method of claim 21 further comprising allowing a pre-selection of said at least one language in said user profile,

36. The method of claim 21 further comprising detecting an activity at a premises utilizing at least one sensor via a monitoring system also located at the premises and connected to a packetized data network.

37. The method of claim 21 wherein said packetized data network comprises a wireless communications network.