Security system and method with scrolling feeds watchlist

• US 9,967,524 B2
• Filed: 12/06/2013
• Issued: 05/08/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 01/10/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP (Johnson Controls International plc)
• Original Assignee: Tyco Safety Products Canada Limited (Johnson Controls International plc)
• Inventors: Brunet, Yanik, McNulty, Scott
• Primary Examiner(s): Tank, Andrew
• Application Number:
  US14/098,986
• Publication Number:
  US 20140195965A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,614 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/1968 Interfaces for setting up or customising the system
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19682 Graphic User Interface [GUI] presenting system data to the user, e.g. information on a screen helping a user interacting with an alarm system
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/14 Central alarm receiver or annunciator arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 29/16 Security signalling or alarm systems, e.g. redundant systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/10 for controlling access to devices or network resources
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/181 for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources

Abstract

A user-centric management application system and method for a security system that conceptualizes the security devices and the tasks to perform on the security devices as separate objects with common properties and behavior. Operators of the system create abstract containers, called dockviews, which the operator adds objects to in order to perform specific tasks. Because the operator assigns user access to dockviews and objects, the system tailors system access for both application users and tenants of the security system based on policy objectives. Dockviews have the ability to open in separate application windows to support priority display and isolation of critical management tasks. The system provides integrated user administration, event management and reports capability, a consistent “look and feel,” and system-wide automated event notification via a watchlist window.

Claims

1. A security system, comprising:

a server system for a security network that aggregates event data captured from objects on the security network; and

a graphical user interface displayed on a user device that presents the event data received from the server, wherein the graphical user interface includes a window with a scrolling feed that is constantly moving forward in real time to present the captured event data such that older event data is moved from right to left of the scrolling feed, in which a user can access older event data by dragging the scrolling feed to the right and can access more recent event data by dragging the scrolling feed to the left in the graphical user interface, wherein the scrolling feed includes event data indicators indexed by time intervals within the scrolling feed, the event data indicators displaying the event data in response to the user indicating the event data indicators;

wherein the graphical user interface also includes a watchlist window that controls inclusion of the event data in the scrolling feed, the watchlist window being overlayed upon the window with the scrolling feed in response to selection of watchlist window selector, and the watchlist window being closed in response to deselection of the watchlist window selector.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the event data are transmitted in response to changes in status of the objects, the event data comprising:

a date and time;

a name;

a description;

a picture; and

/or

a video.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the watchlist window includes a list of the objects, the objects in the list presenting their event data within the scrolling feed.

4. The system of claim 3, further comprising graphical objects associated with the objects which include a watchlist add/delete selector for adding and deleting the objects from the list of objects in the watchlist window.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the graphical objects associated with the objects further include:

an object type for each type of the objects, the object type comprising;

an icon;

a name; and

an object entry for each of the objects, wherein each object entry is associated with one of the object types, each object entry comprising;

an icon; and

a name.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the watchlist window displays the object type names and the object entry names for the objects in separate rows.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the window further includes:

a time interval scale selector for selecting the scale of the time intervals within the scrolling feed.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the scale of the time intervals of the scrolling feed changes in response to selection of the time interval scale selector.

9. The system of claim 1, further comprising displaying time intervals adjacent to the scrolling feed indicating corresponding times when the event data was received.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the graphical user interface further comprises an event data window, and wherein the event data indicators display the event data in the event data window in response to the user indicating the event data indicators.

11. A method for displaying event data for objects in a security system, comprising a server system, a security network for connecting the server system to the objects, a user device for displaying a graphical user interface, the method comprising:

the server system aggregating the event data from the objects on the security network; and

the user device receiving the event data from the server system, and displaying the event data in a graphical user interface that presents the event data in a window with a scrolling feed that is constantly moving forward in real time to present the captured event data such that older event data is moved from right to left of the scrolling feed, in which a user can access older event data by dragging the scrolling feed to the right and can access more recent event data by dragging the scrolling feed to the left in the graphical user interface, wherein the scrolling feed includes event data indicators that display the event data in response to the user indicating the event data indicators;

displaying a watchlist window by selecting a watchlist window selector in the window with the scrolling feed and overlaying the watchlist window upon the window with the scrolling feed;

controlling inclusion of the event data in the scrolling feed by adding and deleting objects in the watchlist window; and

closing the watchlist window in response to deselecting the watchlist window selector.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising changing the scale of time intervals in the scrolling feed.

13. The method of claim 11, further comprising indexing the event data indicators by time intervals.

14. The method of claim 11, further comprising displaying the event data in an event data window in response to the user indicating the event data indicators.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein adding and deleting the objects in the watchlist window comprises selecting a watchlist add/delete selector in graphical objects associated with the objects.

16. The method of claim 11, further comprising displaying an object type name for each type of the objects and an object entry name for each of the objects in a list in the watchlist window.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein controlling inclusion of the event data in the scrolling feed further comprises toggling a watchlist object type selector for the object type names, and/or toggling a watchlist object entry selector for the object entry names, in the list in the watchlist window.

18. The method of claim 11, further comprising presenting the event data from the objects within the a scrolling feed in response to changes in status of the objects.

19. The method of claim 11, wherein the user indicating the event data indicators comprises the user moving a pointing device over the event data indicators.