System and method for automated posting of alarm information to news feed

• US 9,812,000 B2
• Filed: 11/08/2016
• Issued: 11/07/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 06/08/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ademco Inc. (Resideo Technologies, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Inventors: Sivakumar, Balaji Badhey, Manikandan, Raja, D, Vinoth
• Primary Examiner(s): Lu, Shirley
• Application Number:
  US15/346,330
• Publication Number:
  US 20170053522A1
• Time in Patent Office: 364 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/004 Alarm propagated along alternative communication path or using alternative communication medium according to a hierarchy of available ways to communicate, e.g. if Wi-Fi not available use GSM
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/016 Personal emergency signalling and security systems emergency non-personal manually actuated alarm activators G08B25/12
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/08 using communication transmission lines G08B13/19658, G08B21/0286, G08B25/016 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/10 using wireless transmission systems G08B25/009 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/14 Central alarm receiver or annunciator arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 7/00 Signalling systems according to more than one of groups G08B3/00 - G08B6/00; Personal calling systems according to more than one of groups G08B3/00 - G08B6/00

Abstract

Systems and methods for automated posting of alarm information to a news feed are provided. Some methods can include configuring a plurality of surveillance devices, configuring a notification platform, configuring a plurality of alarm types, and providing a remote notification to a mobile handheld device via the notification platform when an alarm that is at least one of the plurality of alarm types occurs in at least one of the plurality of surveillance devices.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

a user interface of a central management system receiving a first selection of a plurality of surveillance devices;

the user interface receiving access credentials for a notification platform;

the user interface receiving a second selection of a plurality of alarm types;

the central management system receiving a first alarm and associated first alarm information from a first of the plurality of surveillance devices;

the central management system determining whether the first of the plurality of surveillance devices matches any of the plurality of surveillance devices in the first selection and whether a first alarm type of the first alarm matches any of the plurality of alarm types in the second selection;

the central management system automatically consolidating the first alarm and the associated first alarm information into a compilation formatted for posting on the notification platform when the central management system determines that the first of the plurality of the surveillance devices matches any of the plurality of surveillance devices in the first selection and the first alarm type of the first alarm matches any of the plurality of alarm types in the second selection;

the central management system automatically posting the compilation to the notification platform immediately after the first alarm and the associated first alarm information are consolidated into the compilation; and

the central management system providing a remote notification to a mobile handheld device via the notification platform when the central management system posts the compilation to the notification platform.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the central management system provides the remote notification to the mobile handheld device via the notification platform substantially immediately after the first alarm occurs.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the remote notification includes the associated first alarm information.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the notification platform includes at least one of a web page, a secure web page, a micro-blogging site, and a social networking site.

5. The method of claim 4 wherein at least one of the web page and the secure web page is RSS enabled.

6. The method of claim 5 further comprising the central management system subscribing to at least one of the web page and the secure web page using the access credentials.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the compilation includes an article containing the first alarm and the associated first alarm information.