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Alarm panel phone number capture and substitution

  • US 8,704,646 B2
  • Filed: 12/09/2009
  • Issued: 04/22/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/09/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • connecting a rerouting processor to a communication port of an alarm panel;

    the connected processor capturing an alarm notification sent from the alarm panel through the communication port, said alarm notification including a destination telephone number of a first central monitoring station;

    the connected processor altering the captured alarm notification by deleting the destination telephone number from the captured alarm notification;

    the connected processor routing the altered alarm notification to a second central monitoring station that is different than the first monitoring station; and

    the connected rerouting processor altering messages in each direction between the alarm panel and second monitoring station to allow the use of the second central monitoring station in place of the first central monitoring station including at least replacing any source identifier of the second central monitoring station with a source identifier of the first monitoring station.

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