Connection gateway for communicating monitoring and control information between a remotely located mobile device and premises devices/appliances on a premises network

A system for automatic notification of security information to subscribed users based on user specified information, wherein the security information is communicated over at least one communication path from security devices associated with the subscribed users, the system comprising:

• (a) a user database for storing user profile information based on a user subscription wherein profile information comprises notification preferences;
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• (b) a service provider network configured to:
• (i) receive communications that include security device information associated with one or more remote security devices associated with a subscribed user,
• (ii) process the security device information from the one or more remote security devices,
• (iii) automatically notify the subscribed user associated with the remote security devices when an alarm event satisfying the user notification preferences is received from the one or more remote security devices, and
• (iv) allow subscribed users to interrogate the one or more remote security devices via a user interface connectable to the service provider network.

A method for user premises monitoring and control, comprising:

• (a) monitoring user premises devices connected to a connection gateway at a user premises;
• (b) controlling the user premises devices connected to the connection gateway at the user premises;
• (c) receiving, at the user premises, an initiation signal associated with a service provider network communication server;
• (d) in response to the initiation signal, initiating, from the connection gateway at the user premises, communications between the connection gateway and the service provider network communications server;
• (e) communicating, during the communications between the connection gateway and the service provider network communications server, information associated with the user premises devices;
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• (f) providing user access to the information associated with the user premises devices via a user interface connectable to the service provider network communications server.

A system for remote access of home networks in respective user premises comprising:

• (a) a user interface;
• (b) a connection gateway including at least one hardware processor, wherein the connection gateway is located in a respective one of the user premises and is part of the respective home network of the respective user premises;
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• (b) an extranet including at least one hardware device, wherein the extranet is (i) located external to the user premises, (ii) accessible via the user interface via a network and an Internet protocol connection, and (iii) adapted to interconnect on-demand with the connection gateway;
• wherein the connection gateway is accessible by the extranet and is communicatively coupled to one or more networked components of the respective home network in which the respective connection gateway is located, the extranet not being directly communicatively coupleable to the one or more networked components of the respective home network;
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• responsive to the user interface accessing a predetermined address on the extranet, in which accessing the user interface provides authorization data, the extranet is configured to subsequently:
• (i) determine which one of the home networks in which one of the connection gateways is located the authorization data indicates authority to at least one of control and monitor,
• (ii) create a communications session between the extranet and the one of the connection gateways located in the determined one of the home networks to at least one of control and monitor operation of at least one of the networked components in the home network,
• (iii) obtain information contained within the home network from the connection gateway of the determined home network, and
• (iv) using a web server, serve the information from the connection gateway of the determined home network, for a display in the user interface that is based on the information.