# US 12,190,690 B2 · Parking garage security system

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- Number: US 12,190,690 B2
- Document ID: US12190690B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 18/129,237
- Filed: 2023-03-31
- Published: 2023-07-27
- Granted: 2025-01-07
- Earliest claimed: 2020-11-09
- Applicants: Cloud Software LLC
- Inventors: Devadatta Bodas; Kanchan Bodas; Rajiv Nashikkar; Tanmay Dharmadhikari
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12190690B2

## CPC

- G08B 13/02: Mechanical actuation
- H04W 4/38: for collecting sensor information
- G06F 1/3231: Monitoring the presence, absence or movement of users
- G07C 9/32: in combination with an identity check
- G08B 19/005: {combined burglary and fire alarm systems}
- G08B 25/014: {Alarm signalling to a central station with two-way communication, e.g. with signalling back}
- G08B 25/14: Central alarm receiver or annunciator arrangements
- H04L 41/0803: Configuration setting
- H04L 63/102: {Entity profiles}
- H04W 12/121: Wireless intrusion detection systems [WIDS]; Wireless intrusion prevention systems [WIPS]
- H04W 12/77: Graphical identity
- G08B: SIGNALLING SYSTEMS, e.g. PERSONAL CALLING SYSTEMS; ORDER TELEGRAPHS; ALARM SYSTEMS
- H04W: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (broadcast communication H04H; communication systems using wireless links for non-selective communication, e.g. wireless extensions H04M1/72)
- G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)
- G07C: TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS; REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES; GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS; VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS; ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE
- H04L: TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M)

## Abstract

A computer-implemented method includes receiving, by a base station of a first security system, an identification of a portable security system. The method further includes adding, by the base station, the portable security system as a sensor to a plurality of sensors monitored by the first security system. The method further includes configuring, by the base station, the portable security system in protect-mode, wherein the portable security system sounds an alarm in response to a sensor from the second system indicating a security-breach. The method further includes in response to the alarm from the portable security system, generating, by the base station, an alarm event of the first security system.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A computer-implemented method comprising:
receiving, by a garage security system, an identification associated with a vehicle;
adding, by the garage security system, a vehicle security system of the vehicle to be monitored by the garage security system; and
in response to an alarm from the vehicle security system, generating, by the garage security system, an alarm event of the garage security system.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:
receiving, by the garage security system, a notification to configure the vehicle security system in protect-mode from an authorized user device; and
in response, configuring, by the garage security system, the vehicle security system in the protect-mode, wherein the vehicle security system sounds an alarm in response to a sensor from the vehicle security system indicating a security-breach.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The computer-implemented method of claim 1, removing, by the garage security system, the vehicle security system from a list of security systems being monitored by the garage security system in response to receiving an instruction from an authorized user device.

### Claim 4 (depends on 3)

The computer-implemented method of claim 3, wherein the garage security system receives the identification associated with the vehicle of which the vehicle security system is to be removed.

### Claim 5 (depends on 1)

The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the identification of the vehicle is received via a sensor coupled with the garage security system.

### Claim 6 (depends on 1)

The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the identification associated with the vehicle is received by entering a code associated with the vehicle security system via a sensor coupled with the garage security system.

### Claim 7 (depends on 1)

The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising, in response to receiving the identification of the vehicle security system, verifying, by the garage security system, that the identification is associated with an account associated with an authorized user.

### Claim 8 (depends on 1)

The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the identification associated with the vehicle is one of a parking pass, a parking entry card, a license tag of the vehicle, an RFID chip, and a mobile phone.

### Claim 9

A security system comprising:
a plurality of sensors; and
a base station that is configured to monitor the plurality of sensors, and to perform a method to monitor a plurality of vehicle security systems, the method comprising:
receiving an identification of a vehicle security system;
adding the vehicle security system to a list of vehicle security systems to be monitored by the base station;
configuring, by the base station, the vehicle security system in protect-mode, wherein the portable security system sounds an alarm in response to a sensor from the vehicle security system indicating a security-breach; and
in response to the alarm from the vehicle security system, generating, by the base station, an alarm event of the security system.

### Claim 10 (depends on 9)

The security system of claim 9, wherein the base station reconfigures the vehicle security system into sleep-mode in response to receiving an instruction from an authorized user.

### Claim 11 (depends on 9)

The security system of claim 9, wherein the base station is further configured to remove the vehicle security system from the list in response to receiving an instruction from an authorized user.

### Claim 12 (depends on 11)

The security system of claim 11, wherein the base station receives the identification of the vehicle security system to be removed.

### Claim 13 (depends on 11)

The security system of claim 11, wherein the identification of the vehicle security system is received by the base station via a sensor of the security system.

### Claim 14 (depends on 11)

The security system of claim 11, wherein the identification of the vehicle security system is received by entering a code associated with the vehicle security system.

### Claim 15 (depends on 9)

The security system of claim 9, wherein the vehicle security system is integrated in the vehicle.

### Claim 16

A portable security system comprising:
a sensor; and
a processor configured to perform a method to secure a vehicle by causing a central security system to monitor the vehicle, the method comprising:
providing an identification to be used by a base station of the central security system to add the portable security system as a sensor of the central security system, the identification identifies the portable security system;
receiving, in response, from the base station, a confirmation indicating that the portable security system has been added to a list of sensors of the central security system;
generating an alarm in response to the sensor indicating a security-breach; and
in response to the security-breach, sending, by the portable security system, a notification to the base station to generate an alarm event of the central security system.

### Claim 17 (depends on 16)

The portable security system of claim 16, wherein the processor configures the portable security system into sleep-mode or protect-mode based on a received instruction.

### Claim 18 (depends on 16)

The portable security system of claim 16, wherein the identification is sent via a sensor of the central security system.

### Claim 19 (depends on 16)

The portable security system of claim 16, further comprising a machine-readable code that includes the identification.

### Claim 20 (depends on 16)

The portable security system of claim 16, wherein the sensor is one from a group of motion detector, light sensor, door sensor, noise sensor, humidity sensor, heat sensor, camera, window sensor, glass-breakage sensor, and infrared sensor.