Mobile communication device surveillance system

• US 8,813,173 B2
• Filed: 12/22/2011
• Issued: 08/19/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/22/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Next Level Security Systems, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Next Level Security Systems, Inc.
• Inventors: Petkevich, Daniel T., Anderson, Rand D., Going, Brett J., Jankowski, Peter A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Zand, Kambiz
• Assistant Examiner(s): Getachew, Abiy
• Application Number:
  US13/335,540
• Publication Number:
  US 20130167190A1
• Time in Patent Office: 971 Days
• Field of Search: 726/1
• US Class Current: 726/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/305 by remotely controlling device operation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/31 User authentication
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/552 involving long-term monitoring or reporting
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/554 involving event detection and direct action
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2111 Location-sensitive, e.g. geographical location, GPS
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/125 involving control of end-device applications over a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 Authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/00 Supervisory, monitoring or testing arrangements

Abstract

A mobile communication device surveillance system is described. The system includes a gateway, a web server, a wireless mobile communication device, and a client device. The web server introduces the wireless mobile communication device to a gateway. The gateway authenticates the wireless mobile communication device. The gateway receives media data from the wireless mobile communication device and monitoring data from a security device connected to the gateway. The gateway aggregates the media data and the monitoring data, and communicates the aggregated data to the client device authenticated with the gateway.

Claims

1. A gateway comprising:

a communication module configured to communicate with a wireless mobile communication device associated with the gateway, the wireless mobile communication device authenticated with a remote web server prior to communicating with the gateway, the remote web server configured to identify the gateway associated with the wireless mobile communication device based on the authentication of the wireless mobile communication device, to introduce the wireless mobile communication device to the gateway after identifying the gateway, and to communicate with the wireless mobile communication device without accessing the gateway associated with the wireless mobile communication device, the wireless mobile communication device having an optical component and a microphone for generating media data; and

a remote device management module configured to aggregate the media data from the wireless mobile communication device and monitoring data generated by a security device coupled to the gateway, and to communicate the aggregated data to a client device.

2. The gateway of claim 1, wherein the remote device management module is configured to communicate the aggregated data to the wireless mobile communication device, and to control the security device in response to a request from the wireless mobile communication device.

3. The gateway of claim 1, wherein the communication module is configured to receive a geographic location data of the wireless mobile communication device, wherein the remote device management module is configured to map the aggregated data based on the geographic location data.

4. The gateway of claim 1, further comprising:

an application programming interface (API) configured to interface the gateway with the wireless mobile communication device;

an application module configured to receive the video data and the monitoring data; and

a device driver to enable interaction of the application module with the wireless mobile communication device and the security device.

5. The gateway of claim 4, wherein the communication module is configured to communicate with other gateways, to receive additional APIs, respective application modules, and respective device drivers, and to copy a configuration of the gateway to the other gateways.

6. The gateway of claim 5, wherein the communication module comprises:

a user authentication module configured to authenticate a user at the wireless mobile communication device based on a profile of the user at the wireless mobile communication device;

a user access policy module configured to limit or grant the user at the wireless mobile communication device access to the security device;

a web server authentication module configured to authenticate a communication between the gateway and the web server; and

a transport module configured to enable peer-to-peer communication between gateways, the wireless mobile communication device, and the web server.

7. The gateway of claim 6, wherein the remote device management module comprises:

an analytics module configured to analyze the aggregated data and to generate events based on the analysis;

an event aggregation module configured to aggregate events generated from the analytics module;

an event-based control module configured to communicate a command to the wireless mobile communication device and the security device based on an event identified in the aggregated events based on an event configuration; and

a client-based control module configured to communicate a command the security device of the gateway based on a command communicated from the wireless mobile communication device.

8. The gateway of claim 1, wherein the security device comprises a camera controlled device, an audio control device, a switch, a HVAC system, a video device, an audio device, a biometric sensor, an access control device, a temperature sensor, an RFID device, or a motion-controlled sensor.

9. The gateway of claim 1, wherein the web server comprises a web-based gateway management application configured to identify a gateway associated with a user at the wireless mobile communication device, to authenticate with the user at the wireless mobile communication device, to authenticate with the identified gateway, and to correlate the identified gateway with the other gateways.

10. The gateway of claim 9, wherein the web-based gateway management application comprises:

a gateway directory manager configured to identify a gateway associated with a user profile;

a user authentication module configured to authenticate with the user at the wireless mobile communication device based on the user profile; and

a gateway authentication module configured to authenticate the identified gateway,

wherein the gateway directory manager comprises a service manager module configured to enable an add-on service to the user at the wireless mobile communication device.

11. The gateway of claim 1, wherein the media data comprises a video data or an audio data.

12. The gateway of claim 1, wherein the client device is configured to communicate with a first gateway identified by the web server, to receive monitoring data from a second security device coupled to a second gateway, to control the second security device coupled to the second gateway by communicating with the first gateway coupled to a first security device, the first gateway correlated with the second gateway by the web server.

13. A system comprising:

a remote web server configured to authenticate a wireless mobile communication device having an optical device and a microphone for generating media data, to identify a gateway associated with the wireless mobile communication device based on the authentication of the wireless mobile communication device, to introduce the wireless mobile communication device to theag teway after identify in the gateway, the remote web server configured to communicate with the wireless mobile device without accessing the gateway associated with the wireless mobile communication device; and

the gateway configured to authenticate the wireless mobile communication device, to aggregate monitoring data from a security device coupled to the gateway and media data from the wireless mobile communication device, and to communicate the aggregated data to a client device.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the gateway is configured to communicate the monitoring data to the wireless mobile communication device, and to control the security device in response to a request from the wireless mobile communication device.

15. The system of claim 13, wherein the gateway is configured to receive a geographic location data of the wireless mobile communication device and to map the aggregated data based on the geographic location data.

16. The system of claim 13, wherein the gateway comprises:

an application programming interface (API) configured to interface the gateway with the wireless mobile communication device;

an application module configured to receive the video data and the monitoring data; and

a device driver to enable interaction of the application module with the wireless mobile communication device and the security device.

17. A computer-implemented method comprising:

authenticating, at a remote web server, a wireless mobile communication device;

identifying, at the remote web server, a gateway associated with the wireless mobile communication device based on the authenticating of the wireless mobile communication device;

introducing, at the remote web server, the wireless mobile communication device to the gateway after identifying the gateway, the remote web server configured to communicate with the wireless mobile device without accessing the gateway associated with the wireless mobile communication device;

authenticating, at the gateway, the wireless mobile communication device;

receiving, at the gateway, media data from the wireless mobile communication device and monitoring data from a security device coupled to the gateway;

aggregating, at the gateway, the media data and the monitoring data; and

communicating, from the gateway, the aggregated data to a client device authenticated with the gateway.

18. The computer-implemented method of claim 17, further comprising:

communicating the aggregated data to the wireless mobile communication device.

19. The computer-implemented method of claim 18, further comprising:

controlling the security device in response to a request from the wireless mobile communication device.

20. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a set of instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations, comprising:

authenticating, at a remote web server, a wireless mobile communication device;

identifying, at the remote web server, a gateway associated with the wireless mobile communication device based on the authenticating of the wireless mobile communication device;

introducing, at the remote web server, the wireless mobile communication device to the gateway after identifying the gateway, the remote web server configured to communicate with the wireless mobile device without accessing the associated with the wireless mobile communication device;

authenticating, at the gateway, the wireless mobile communication device;

receiving, at the gateway, media data from the wireless mobile communication device and monitoring data from a security device coupled to the gateway;

aggregating, at the gateway, the media data and the monitoring data; and

communicating, from the gateway, the aggregated data to a client device authenticated with the gateway.