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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8169314 | Water sensor switch system A drain pan system for activating a pump when detecting a predetermined water level in a drain pan is provided. The drain pan system includes the drain pan, the pump, a water sensor, first and second inputs, a control section and a switching device. The water sensor... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8164436 | Power over data cable system and method A power over data cable system has a power controller. The power controller receives alarm signals from alarm systems such as fire alarms and security alarms. The power controller is connected to power over Ethernet switches or injectors (PoE). The PoE Ethernet swit... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8154398 | Remote location monitoring A remote location monitoring system, for example, a home monitoring or weather monitoring system may include one or more sensors and/or receivers at a remote location such as a residence or business to be monitored. The sensors and receivers may communicate with a c... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8149101 | Display device with anti-crime security function A control unit of a display device controls the display device in a normal mode of operation to operate in a normal state. The control unit controls the display device to enter into an anti-crime security mode of operation, when a state representing that the externa... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149102 | Reconfigurable interface operable with multiple types of sensors and actuators An interface is provided that configures itself dynamically based on sensor information received from a sensor assembly or actuator information received from an actuator assembly. The interface may be configured to interoperate with sensor assemblies including analo... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8134457 | Method and system for spatio-temporal event detection using composite definitions for camera systems A system and method for monitoring events includes defining alert events based on primitive event types in an environment monitored by monitoring devices. Alert parameters are set for each alert event, and alert events are combined to create a composite alert event ... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8115617 | Alarm reordering to handle alarm storms in large networks In one embodiment, a sensor device in a network detects an alarm condition. The sensor device generates an alarm message based on the detected alarm condition and waits for a delay whose length is inversely proportional to a distance between the sensor device and a ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8077026 | Technician communications for automated building protection systems A communication module communicates between the tools or control panel and the technician. A communications module connects to or by the control panel or other controller of the protection system. The communications module wirelessly communicates with a service tool... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8072322 | Interpreting data from a site A method for interpreting data from a site is described. The method may include various steps. Input data to be interpreted may be acquired. The input data may be sent to an interpreter. Alert criteria may be sent to the interpreter. A determination that indicates w... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8068020 | Management of resources in emergency and operational situations Provided is a method for designing, managing and executing response plans. Specific plan and resources are defined and a defined plan is executed either automatically or manually according to pre-determined or “real-time” parameter definitions. An executed plan ... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8063761 | System and method for home automation and security A home automation and security system is provided in which a home automation and security controller in a customer premises is coupled with a remotely located central control facility using a continuous connectivity access line providing a data channel separate from... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8063762 | Alarm system for monitoring at rural locations A system for monitoring and reporting of alarm events occurring in a monitored system includes a power supply, a switch module, an alarm interface, an event message module and a system controller wherein the switch module provides active power to the event message m... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8054172 | Apparatus with reconfiguration function and signal gathering function The present invention relates to an apparatus with reconfiguration function and signal gathering function. The apparatus with reconfiguration function and signal gathering function according to the present invention comprises a signal gathering unit which gathers at... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8054173 | Alarm management device An alarm management device capable of constructing logics for suppressing tailgate alarm without depending on controllers, and of managing engineering and management thereof with concentration. The invention relates to an alarm management device for managing alarms ... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8049611 | Location mechanism for mobile device A location mechanism for a mobile device, in which an electronic communication including a code is received at the mobile device and the code is parsed from within the received electronic communication. The code parsed from within the electronic communication is use... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8044792 | System and method for controlling remote sensors A system and method for controlling one or more remote sensors includes wirelessly communicating with the sensors, monitoring operation of each one of the sensors, and causing any one of the sensors that is operating in an unauthorized manner to be disabled. In one ... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8040230 | Alarm control apparatus An alarm control apparatus which collects alarms from a plant and handles the alarms includes: a defining section for defining a conditioning process which is executed when performing a filtering process on the alarms; and a filtering section for performing the filt... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8040231 | Method for processing alarm data to generate security reports A system and method are provided that allow analysis of alarm data to generate security reports. A security report system may include a monitoring tool and a data analyzer. The monitoring tool may include an alarm data acquiring module and an alarm database for stor... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8035505 | Monitor control system In a monitor control system, an HMI (11 in FIG. 1) includes event list display means (16) for displaying an event list screen of list form, in which event names and alarm levels are contained as to faults and the like alarm events occurring in a... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8026804 | Residential security surveillance and notification management system The apparatus is applicable to a communications network, wherein, via an information processing platform of a network server end, the system is connected to a network surveillance device installed in a monitored environment, in which the information processing platf... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8013729 | Systems and methods for distributed monitoring of remote sites Rules are applied to video surveillance data to detect events. Localization of the events is achieved by decomposing events into distinct components, each of which can, in some embodiments, be defined at different locations and by different users. ... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8009033 | System and method for providing synergistic alert condition processing in an automated patient management system A system and method for providing synergistic alert condition processing in an automated patient management system is presented. An alert condition is classified along a continuum that includes adverse outcome potential versus medical intervention impact potential. ... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8004396 | System and method for information integration An information integration system for integrating information includes: a local information receiving unit configured to receive information from a plurality of sensors; an information collecting unit configured to collect information from a plurality of remote info... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7999666 | Emergency lighting system with improved monitoring An emergency lighting unit includes a lamp, a backup battery, controller, and a network interface. The controller connects the backup battery to the lamp upon detection of an emergency condition and loss of main power. The network interface interfaces with and recei... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7982595 | Network policy evaluation A device may include an interface to send policy information to an evaluation module, where the policy information is related to a group of policies, and receive a group of results from the evaluation module, where the group of results indicates whether the status o... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7965178 | System and method for integrated facility and fireground management The present invention provides an intelligent, integrated facility and fireground management system which is efficient, assures first responder, pedestrian and appliance safety, as well as precise performance in extreme emergency situations, regulatory compliance, e... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7961088 | Asset monitoring system and portable security system therefor A portable security system for monitoring an asset has one or more alarm sensors and a wireless transmitter/receiver that communicates via wireless communication with a host system. The portable security system is switchable between a disabled (partially powered) st... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7956736 | Method and system for communicating with and controlling an alarm system from a remote server A communication system is provided that can be added to a legacy alarm system to provide a plurality of communication modes to a remote server system from the legacy alarm system and provide remote control and monitoring to a user of the system via two-way communica... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7956735 | Automated, remotely-verified alarm system with intrusion and video surveillance and digital video recording An automated self-monitored alarm verification solution including at least a premises portion, a server portion, and an end user device portion. Alarm verification includes capturing by an image capture device at least one image in response to a detection event, and... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7948368 | Method for evacuating buildings divided into sections A method, evacuation system and hazard warning center for the evacuation of a building divided into sections by the hazard warning center, which is connected to at least one hazard warning unit detecting a hazard. The hazard warning center produces an evacuation pla... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7936259 | Alarm management system The present embodiments generally relate to an alarm management system for providing a time to manage value enabling a user to respond to an abnormal situation for at least one device and prevent the at least one device from reaching a trouble point value. ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7902972 | Supervising arrangement A hierarchical fault handling system and method based on filtering data regarding entities in the system and coordinating said filtered data in order to determined if an entity is considered faulty or not. The result for all entities is coordinated in a system fault... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7902973 | Alarm reordering to handle alarm storms in large networks In one embodiment, one or more routing trees may be determined based on corresponding root nodes to reach a particular receiving node in a computer network. A delay value may be calculated at each node of the routing tree, the delay value inversely proportional to a... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7893824 | Alarm control apparatus An alarm control apparatus which collects alarms from an equipment of a plant and handles the alarms includes a support information collecting section which adds support information for managing the equipment to the alarms. ... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7893825 | Alarm origination latching system and method An embodiment of the invention provides a method including detecting a select hazardous condition by at least one triggering alarm unit of a plurality of interconnected hazardous condition alarm units. An actuatable latch in the triggering alarm unit is switched fro... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7889066 | Self-configuring emergency event alarm system having connection to a public safety answering point The present Self-Configuring Alarm System uses a decentralized (ad hoc or mesh) architecture where any node is capable of autonomously reporting the alarm event directly to all other nodes in the ad hoc network independent of where the alarm event occurred. In addit... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7884709 | System and method for providing a synergistic alert condition processing in an automated patient management system A system and method for providing synergistic alert condition processing in an automated patient management system is presented. An alert condition is classified along a continuum that includes adverse outcome potential versus medical intervention impact potential. ... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7880603 | System and method for controlling an anti-masking system The present invention is directed to a method and system for controlling operation of an anti-masking system that detects tampering with a motion detection system. The control system may include a selective adjustment mechanism for adjusting a sensitivity level of t... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7880604 | Self-configuring emergency event alarm system with autonomous output devices The present Self-Configuring Alarm System uses a decentralized (ad hoc or mesh) architecture where any node is capable of autonomously reporting the alarm event directly to all other nodes in the ad hoc network independent of where the alarm event occurred. In addit... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7880605 | Security system for portable device with arming feature A security system and method of monitoring a portable device. The security system has a first sensor, a controller, and an alarm signal generator. The controller is capable of detecting that the first sensor, with the security system in an armed state, has changed f... | 02/01/2011 |
