Distributed security system over multiple sites
AssigneeAvigilon Corporation
InventorsShaun P. MARLATT, Avery W. CHIANG, Tomer GOLDENBERG, Matthew J. ADAM, Jonathon E.B. GRIEMAN
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Abstract
A physical security system may define sites associated with cameras. Sites may be added as a child site off of a parent site to form a site family. Once set up, ranked user and group privileges on the parent site may be pushed to the child sites, and controlled by the parent site. The child sites may still define local users and groups so that the child site may operate if there is a loss of connectivity to the parent site.
Claims34
A method of controlling sites in a security system through at least one graphical user interface, comprising:
- adding a site as a child site to a parent site in the security system via a first graphical user interface accessed through the parent site, wherein the parent site is associated with one or more settings, and wherein the child site automatically inherits the one or more settings from the parent site;
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- restricting access to modify the one or more settings of the parent site from a second graphical user interface accessed through the child site.
A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions for controlling access to sites in a security system through a graphical user interface, that when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform the operations of:
- associating each of the sites of the security system with a rank, wherein each rank is associated with at least one set of user credentials and one or more access privileges to at least one of the sites;
- defining at least one child site and at least one parent site, wherein the parent site has access to the child site and the child site has restricted access to the parent site;
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- displaying a hierarchy of the sites of the security system, wherein the sites are connected to other sites according to the one or more access privileges.
A node comprising a processor and a memory, the node further including computer-executable instructions stored in the memory of the node which, when executed by the processor of the node, cause the node to:
- display a first graphical user interface for a security system, the security system comprising sites;
- receive input at the first graphical user interface to add a site as a child site to a parent site, wherein the parent site is associated with one or more settings;
- associate the one or more settings from the parent site with the child site;
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- restrict access to modify the one or more settings of the parent site from a second graphical user interface accessed through the child site.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.