# US 10,769,923 B2 · Digitized voice alerts > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,769,923 B2 - Document ID: US10769923B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 16/371,595 - Filed: 2019-04-01 - Published: 2019-08-29 - Granted: 2020-09-08 - Earliest claimed: 2011-05-24 - Assignees: Verna IP Holdings, LLC - Applicants: Verna IP Holdings, LLC - Inventors: Anthony Verna; Luis M. Ortiz; Kermit D. Lopez - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10769923B2 ## CPC - G08B 21/02: Alarms for ensuring the safety of persons - G08B 25/012: {using recorded signals, e.g. speech (G08B25/08 takes precedence)} - G08B 25/10: using wireless transmission systems {(G08B25/009 takes precedence)} - G10L 13/027: Concept to speech synthesisers; Generation of natural phrases from machine-based concepts (generation of parameters for speech synthesis out of text G10L13/08) - G10L 13/08: Text analysis or generation of parameters for speech synthesis out of text, e.g. grapheme to phoneme translation, prosody generation or stress or intonation determination - G10L 13/086: {Detection of language} - G10L 15/00: Speech recognition (G10L17/00 takes precedence) - G10L 15/10: using distance or distortion measures between unknown speech and reference templates - G10L 15/22: Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue - H04B 7/18504: {Aircraft used as relay or high altitude atmospheric platform} - H04H 20/38: Arrangements for distribution where lower stations, e.g. receivers, interact with the broadcast - H04H 20/59: for emergency or urgency - H04L 12/1895: {for short real-time information, e.g. alarms, notifications, alerts, updates} - H04L 51/04: Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM] - H04L 63/105: {Multiple levels of security} - H04L 67/12: specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks - H04L 67/306: User profiles - H04L 67/55: Push-based network services - H04M 11/045: {using recorded signals, e.g. speech} - H04W 4/06: Selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS]; Services to user groups; One-way selective calling services - H04W 4/12: Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements - H04W 4/14: Short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD] - H04W 4/90: Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS] - H04W 12/06: Authentication - G10L 13/00: Speech synthesis; Text to speech systems - G10L 2015/223: {Execution procedure of a spoken command} - H04L 63/0861: {using biometrical features, e.g. fingerprint, retina-scan (cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication using biological data H04L9/3231)} - H04M 11/04: with alarm systems, e.g. fire, police or burglar alarm systems - H04W 4/38: for collecting sensor information - H04W 84/042: {Public Land Mobile systems, e.g. cellular systems} - H04W 84/12: WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks] - G08B: SIGNALLING SYSTEMS, e.g. PERSONAL CALLING SYSTEMS; ORDER TELEGRAPHS; ALARM SYSTEMS - G10L: SPEECH ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES OR SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH OR VOICE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES; SPEECH OR AUDIO CODING OR DECODING - H04B: TRANSMISSION - H04H: BROADCAST COMMUNICATION (multiplex communication H04J; pictorial communication aspects of broadcast systems H04N) - H04L: TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) - H04M: TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION (circuits for controlling other apparatus via a telephone cable and not involving telephone switching apparatus G08) - H04W: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (broadcast communication H04H; communication systems using wireless links for non-selective communication, e.g. wireless extensions H04M1/72) ## Abstract Methods, systems and processor-readable media for providing instant/real-time voice alerts automatically to remote electronic devices. An activity can be detected utilizing one or more sensors. A text message indicative of the activity can be generated and converted into a digitized voice alert. The activity can also be a live utterance (e.g., a live announcement), which can then be instantly converted into a digitized voice alert for automatic delivery in a selected series of languages following the base language (e.g., English). The combined digitized voice alert can then be instantly transmitted through a network for broadcast of consecutive alerts (e.g., English followed by Spanish followed by Vietnamese, etc.) to one or more remote electronic devices that communicate with the network for an automatic audio announcement of the digitized voice alert through the one or more remote electronic devices. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A system for automatically providing instant voice alerts to remote electronic devices, the system comprising: a processor; a data bus coupled to said processor; and a computer-usable medium embodying computer code, said computer-usable medium being coupled to said data bus, said computer program code comprising instructions executable by said processor and configured for: registering remote electronic devices to receive notifications via wireless data communications networks from a monitoring system including data files comprising digitized voice alerts; generating and converting a text message indicative of an activity into a data file to be rendered on a remote electronic device as a digitized voice alert, wherein the activity comprises an activity detected at a premises utilizing at least one sensor via a monitoring system also located at the premises and connected to a packetized data network; and transmitting the data file through the packetized data network for receipt by at least one remote electronic device that is registered to communicate remotely with the monitoring system and to receive messages over the packetized data network for rendering of the digitized voice alert from the data file and that communicates with the data network via wireless data communications, wherein the data file is processed at the at least one remote electronic device for an automatic audio announcement of the digitized voice alert through the at least one remote electronic device. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1 wherein the at least one sensor communicates wirelessly with at least one of the monitoring system, an intelligent router, and a server that in turn communicates with the data network. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1 wherein the at least one sensor comprises a security sensor. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1 wherein the at least one sensor comprises a surveillance sensor. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1 wherein the at least one sensor comprises a smoke detector. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1 wherein the at least one sensor comprises a fire detector. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1 wherein the at least one sensor comprises a carbon monoxide detector. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1 wherein the at least one sensor comprises an energy usage monitoring sensor. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1 wherein the at least one sensor comprises a door opening sensor. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1 wherein the at least one sensor comprises a window opening sensor. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1 wherein the at least one sensor comprises a flood sensor. ### Claim 12 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1 wherein the at least one of sensor includes: a security sensor, a surveillance sensor, a smoke detector, a fire detector, a carbon monoxide detector, an energy usage monitoring sensor, a door or window opening sensor, a flood sensor, and communicates with an intelligent router that communicates with the packetized data network. ### Claim 13 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1 wherein the at least one sensor includes at least one of: a security sensor, a surveillance sensor, a smoke detector, a fire detector, a carbon monoxide detector, an energy usage monitoring sensor, a door or window opening sensor, a flood sensor, and communicates with the at least one remote electronic device through the packetized data network. ### Claim 14 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1 wherein the instructions are further configured for broadcasting the digitized voice message through the at least one remote electronic device in at least one language based on a language setting in a user profile. ### Claim 15 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1 further comprising allowing a pre-selection of the at least one language in the user profile. ### Claim 16 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1 wherein the instructions are further configured for detecting an activity at a premises utilizing at least one sensor via a monitoring system also located at the premises and connected to a packetized data network. ### Claim 17 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1 wherein the packetized data network comprises a wireless communications network.