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US 2015/0091722 A1Published application
Building Security System
AssigneeComcast Cable Communications, LLC
InventorJames Poder
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Abstract
A security system that can be used in a home, office, or other building in order to generate alarms or take other actions depending on conditions within the building. The security system may rely on sensors within the building which sense various conditions and collect other data. The information learned from the sensors can be communicated to a location outside the building for processing, such as, but not limited to, processing associated with a need to instigate an alarm.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- receiving, by a computing device at a first location, first data indicative of an alarm condition at a second location;
- determining that the first data indicates a need to activate an alarm at the second location;
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- after receiving the first data and responsive to determining that the computing device has lost communication with the second location, verifying the need to activate the alarm based on second data previously received by the computing device from the second location.
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A method comprising:
- sending, by a computing device, first data that indicates an alarm condition sensed by a first sensor at a location and second data sensed by a second sensor at the location and associated with the alarm condition;
- receiving an instruction to activate an alarm at the location, wherein the instruction is based on a determination that the second data sensed by the second sensor verifies the first data that indicates the alarm condition;
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- in response to receiving the instruction, activating the alarm at the location.
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A method comprising:
- in response to a computing device at a first location receiving first data indicative of an alarm condition at a second location and determining that the computing device has lost communication with the second location, verifying a need to activate an alarm at the second location based on second data previously received by the computing device from the second location;
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- in response to verifying the need to activate the alarm at the second location, transmitting an instruction to activate the alarm.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.