Video security systems and methods

• US 9,300,921 B2
• Filed: 02/15/2013
• Issued: 03/29/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/20/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Comcast Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Comcast Corporation)
• Inventors: Naidoo, Surendra N., Glasgow, William P., Feldkamp, Gregory E.
• Primary Examiner(s): VO, TUNG T
• Application Number:
  US13/768,343
• Publication Number:
  US 20140232861A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,138 Days
• Field of Search: 348/143
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19695 Arrangements wherein non-video detectors start video recording or forwarding but do not generate an alarm themselves
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2825 Reporting to a device located outside the home and the home network access arrangements H04L12/2856; for remote control or remote monitoring of applications H04L67/025; telephonic communication systems adapted for combination with telemetering systems H04M11/002
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2836 Protocol conversion between an external network and a home network controlling appliance services of a home automation network from a device located outside the home and the home network H04L12/2818; protocol conversion H04L69/08; adaptation of digital video signals for transport over a specific home network H04N7/24
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2012/2849 Audio/video appliances
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/18 Closed-circuit television [CCTV] systems, i.e. systems in which the video signal is not broadcast
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/183 for receiving images from a single remote source

Abstract

Systems and methods for the remote verification and monitoring of conditions surrounding an alarm signal are disclosed. In an aspect, a security system can comprise a security gateway located at a premises, wherein the security gateway is operable to detect an alarm condition and to receive video of at least a portion of the premises relating to the alarm condition, a first network coupled to the security gateway, and a second network coupled to the security gateway. The security gateway can be configured to cause transfer of alarm information comprising at least a portion of the received video and a first notification of the alarm condition in substantially real time through only the first network. The security gateway can be further configured to cause transfer of a second notification of the alarm condition through the second network substantially simultaneously with causing transfer of the alarm information through the first network.

Claims

1. A security system comprising:

a security gateway located at a premises, wherein the security gateway is operable to detect an alarm condition and to receive video of at least a portion of the premises relating to the alarm condition;

a first network coupled to the security gateway; and

a second network coupled to the security gateway;

wherein the security gateway is configured to cause transfer of alarm information comprising at least a portion of the received video and a first notification of the alarm condition in substantially real time through only the first network, and

wherein the security gateway is further configured to cause transfer of a second notification of the alarm condition through the second network.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the first network is an IP network, an Ethernet-based network, the Internet, a frame relay network, a hybrid-fiber coaxial network, a fiber-optic network, a DSL network, an ATM network, a high-speed fixed wireless network, or a high-speed mobile network, or a combination thereof.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the second network comprises a public switched telephone network, a fixed wireless network, or a mobile communications network, or a combination thereof.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the security gateway is further operable to receive audio from at least a portion of the premises relating to the alarm condition, and wherein the security gateway is further configured to cause transfer of the received audio through the second network in substantially real time.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the security gateway is further configured to detect if connectivity through the first network is modified and to cause transfer of a notification signal through the second network of the modification of connectivity through the first network.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the security gateway is further configured to cause transfer of one or more of the alarm information and the second notification to a mobile device.

7. A security system comprising:

a security gateway located at a premises, wherein the security gateway is operable to detect an alarm condition and to receive video of at least a portion of the premises relating to the alarm condition;

a first network coupled to the security gateway; and

a second network coupled to the security gateway,

wherein the security gateway is configured to cause transfer of alarm information comprising the received video and a first notification of the alarm condition in substantially real time through the first network, and

wherein the security gateway is further configured to cause transfer of a second notification of the alarm condition through the second network substantially simultaneously with causing the transfer of the alarm information through the first network.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the first network comprises an IP network, an Ethernet-based network, the Internet, a frame relay network, a hybrid-fiber coaxial network, a fiber-optic network, a DSL network, an ATM network, a high-speed fixed wireless network, or a high-speed mobile network, or a combination thereof.

9. The system of claim 7, wherein the security gateway is further operable to receive audio from at least a portion of the premises relating to the alarm condition, and wherein the security gateway is further configured to cause transmission of the received audio through the second network in substantially real time.

10. The system of claim 7, wherein the security gateway is further configured to detect if connectivity through the first network is modified and cause transfer of a notification signal through the second network of the modification of connectivity through the first network.

11. A security system comprising:

a security gateway located at a premises, wherein the security gateway is operable to detect an alarm condition and to receive video of at least a portion of the premises relating to the alarm condition;

first computing device operatively coupled to the security gateway through a first network, wherein the security gateway is configured to cause transfer to the first computing device alarm information comprising a first notification of the alarm condition and the at least a portion of the received video through the first network; and

a second computing device operatively coupled to said security gateway through a second network, wherein the security gateway is configured to cause transfer to the second computing device a second notification of the alarm condition without causing transfer of the received video through the second network, wherein the second computing device is further operably coupled to the first computing device,

wherein the second computing device is configured to cause transfer to the first computing device a third notification of the alarm condition.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the second computing device is operatively coupled to the first computing device through a third network and wherein the second computing device is configured to cause transfer to the first computing device the third notification of the alarm condition through the third network.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the security gateway is configured to cause transfer to the first computing device the alarm information through the first network substantially simultaneously with causing transfer to the second computing device the second notification of the alarm condition through the second network.

14. The system of claim 11, wherein the second computing device is operatively coupled to the first computing device through the first network and wherein the second computing device is configured to cause transfer to the first computing device the third notification of the alarm condition through the first network.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the security gateway is configured to cause transfer to the first computing device the alarm information through the first network substantially simultaneously with causing transfer to the second computing device the second notification of the alarm condition through the second network.

16. The system of claim 11, wherein one or more of the first computing device and the second computing device is a mobile device.

17. A method comprising:

detecting an alarm condition;

receiving video of at least a portion of the premises relating to the alarm condition;

transmitting alarm information comprising at least a portion of the received video and a first notification of the alarm condition through only the first network; and

transmitting a second notification of the alarm condition through the second network.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the first network comprises an IP network, an Ethernet-based network, the Internet, a frame relay network, a hybrid-fiber coaxial network, a fiber-optic network, a DSL network, an ATM network, a high-speed fixed wireless network, or a high-speed mobile network, or a combination thereof.

19. The method of claim 17, wherein the second network comprises a public switched telephone network, a fixed wireless network, or a mobile communications network, or a combination thereof.

20. The method of claim 17, wherein the video comprises audio information.

21. The method of claim 17, wherein one or more of the alarm information and the second notification is transmitted to a mobile device.

22. A method comprising:

detecting an alarm condition;

receiving video of at least a portion of the premises relating to the alarm condition; and

transmitting alarm information comprising at least a portion of the received video and a first notification of the alarm condition in substantially real time through the first network; and

transmitting a second notification of the alarm condition through the second network substantially simultaneously with transmitting the alarm information through the first network.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein the first network comprises an IP network, an Ethernet-based network, the Internet, a frame relay network, a hybrid-fiber coaxial network, a fiber-optic network, a DSL network, an ATM network, a high-speed fixed wireless network, or a high-speed mobile network, or a combination thereof.

24. The method of claim 22, wherein the second network comprises a public switched telephone network, a fixed wireless network, or a mobile communications network, or a combination thereof.

25. The method of claim 22, wherein the video comprises audio information.

26. The method of claim 22, wherein one or more of the alarm information and the second notification is transmitted to a mobile device.