# US 9,883,001 B2 · Digitized voice alerts

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- Number: US 9,883,001 B2
- Document ID: US9883001B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 15/224,930
- Filed: 2016-08-01
- Published: 2017-02-02
- Granted: 2018-01-30
- 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/US9883001B2

## 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)}
- 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
- 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
- H04W 4/12: Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
- H04W 4/14: Short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD]
- G10L 13/00: Speech synthesis; Text to speech systems
- H04M 11/04: with alarm systems, e.g. fire, police or burglar alarm systems
- 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
- 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)
- H04W: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (broadcast communication H04H; communication systems using wireless links for non-selective communication, e.g. wireless extensions H04M1/72)
- G10L: SPEECH ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES OR SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH OR VOICE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES; SPEECH OR AUDIO CODING OR DECODING
- H04M: TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION (circuits for controlling other apparatus via a telephone cable and not involving telephone switching apparatus G08)

## 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 providing instant voice alerts automatically to remote electronic devices, said system comprising:
a processor;
connection to and communication through a packetized data network;
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 the monitoring system including data files comprising digitized voice alerts;
detecting an activity at a premises utilizing at least one sensor via a monitoring system also located at the premises and connected to the packetized data network;
generating and converting a text message indicative of said activity into a data file that can be rendered on a remote electronic device as a digitized voice alert; and
transmitting said 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 said 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 said digitized voice alert through said at least one remote electronic device.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The system of claim 1 wherein said 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 said data network.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The system of claim 1, wherein said 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 an intelligent router that communicates with said packetized data network.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The system of claim 1 wherein said 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 said at least one remote electronic device through said packetized data network.

### Claim 5 (depends on 1)

The system of claim 1 wherein said instructions are further configured for broadcasting said digitized voice message through said at least one remote electronic device in at least one language based on a language setting in a user profile.

### Claim 6 (depends on 5)

The system of claim 5, wherein said instructions are further configured for allowing a pre-selection of said at least one language in said user profile.

### Claim 7 (depends on 6)

The system of claim 6 wherein said instructions are further configured during a set up of said at least one remote electronic device for selecting said at least one language from a plurality of different languages.

### Claim 8 (depends on 1)

The system of claim 1, wherein said instructions are further configured for converting said digitized voice message into more than one language from among a plurality of languages for broadcast of said digitized voice alert in consecutively different languages through said at least one remote electronic device.

### Claim 9

A processor-readable medium storing code representing instructions to cause a processor to perform a process to automatically provide an instant voice announcement to remote electronic devices, said code comprising of instructions operating on a premises monitoring system to:
detect a condition or activity at a premises utilizing at least one sensor via a monitoring system also located at the premises and connected to a data network;
prepare a digital file containing digitized voice message as a live announcement regarding the condition or the activity;
automatically convert said digital file into a packetized digitized voice message indicative of said live announcement;
associate said digitized voice message with a text message to be transmitted through a data communications network to a plurality of remote electronic devices that are authorized to communicate with said data communications network and are registered to receive text messages from the premises monitoring system; and
transmit said text message with said digitized voice message through the data network from at least one of a server in communication with said monitoring system or said monitoring system for receipt and processing by said plurality of electronic devices for automatic playback of said digitized voice message through at least one remote electronic device among said plurality of remote electronic devices upon receipt of said text message with said digitized voice message at said at least one remote electronic device among said plurality of remote electronic devices.