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| 20100245073 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTERROGATION OF A SECURITY SYSTEM - A method and apparatus are provided for obtaining the status of a security system. The method includes the steps of providing a security system for a protected premises, coupling the security system to a central monitoring station through a short-range radio and a broadband connection that receives polling messages from the protected premises where the broadband connection forwards the polling message to the central station, the central station receiving a status request from an authorized user of the protected premises, in response to the polling message, the central station transmitting the status request to the security system through the broadband connection and short range radio system and the security system transmitting a status report through the short range radio and the broadband connection to the central monitoring station in response to the request. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20110015945 | BIOMETRIC MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method of accurately administering medication to a patient includes enrolling the patient including capturing an enrollment iris image, converting the enrollment iris image into an enrollment iris code, and associating the enrollment iris code with the patient, associating a medication with a patient including associating a medication bar code value associated with the medication bar code with the patient, administering a medication to the patient including capturing a current iris image, converting the current iris image into a current iris code, capturing a current medication bar code image of the bar code associated with the medication, converting the current medication bar code image into a current medication bar code value, querying the database for any patient having a previously stored enrollment iris code matching the current iris code and comparing each previously stored medication bar code value associated with the patient with the current medication bar code value. | 01-20-2011 |
| 20110091216 | LONG RANGE SELECTIVE RFID USING LASER PHOTODETECTION WAKEUP - A data transfer system includes a radio frequency identification (RFID) reader having a radio frequency transmitter and receiver and a laser. The data transfer system also includes a RFID tag on a container which has a first photosensitive device coupled to an electronic circuit in the tag which is in a first state when light from the laser is not striking the photosensitive device and in a second state when light from the laser is striking the photosensitive device such that the RFID tag transmits a signal only when a light beam from the laser is striking the photosensitive device. The tag may be passive, semi-passive (battery assisted passive-BAP), or active. If the tag is BAP then the laser light causes the tag to wake up so that it can respond to the RF signal from a RFID reader. The radio frequency transmitter provides power to the RFID tag sufficient to transmit a signal to the receiver which can be decoded by the RFID reader when the RFID reader is 40 feet or more away from the RFID tag. | 04-21-2011 |
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| 20090274104 | FIXED MOBILE CONVERGENCE TECHNIQUES FOR REDUNDANT ALARM REPORTING - Alarm reporting systems and methods for reporting alarms to a central monitoring station using fixed mobile convergence (FMC) techniques. An alarm reporting system comprises a plurality of sensors, an alarm reporting module that receives alarm signals from the plurality of sensors, and a logic unit that generates an alarm message related to the alarm signal. The alarm reporting module further comprises at least two transceivers, the first of which is a wi-fi transceiver that communicates with a central monitoring station via a wireless access point further connected to an internet connection. The second transceiver is a cellular tranceiver that communicates with the central monitoring station via a cellular network further connected to an internet gateway. The second tranceiver provides redundancy in case the wireless access point or the first internet connection become unavailable. | 11-05-2009 |
| 20100330985 | FIXED MOBILE CONVERGENCE HOME CONTROL SYSTEM - Systems and methods for controlling a building automation system with an FMC cellular device are provided. The FMC cellular device can locally interface with a building automation system via a femtocell base station or a wireless access point, remotely interface with a building automation system over a wide area network via a macrocell base station, or remotely interface with a building automation system via a GAN enabled wireless access point. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20110050455 | ALARM REPORTING THROUGH UTILITY METER READING INFRASTRUCTURE - A system is provided that includes a utility meter of a utility company that measures consumption of a utility within a space occupied by a user, a wireless fault detector associated with the utility located within the space and a wireless transmitter of the utility meter that receives a fault message from the fault detector, confirms consumption of the utility within the space and transmits a fault message that identifies the space to the utility company. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110134170 | AUTOMATIC RFID CIRCUIT TUNING - A method of printing comprising the steps of: providing a print media having a printing surface; measuring at least one parameter of the print media; calculating an optimal configuration for a radio frequency identification (RFID) transponder circuit for obtaining a desired RFID transponder resonant frequency; configuring the RFID transponder circuit and printing the RFID transponder circuit onto the print media. | 06-09-2011 |
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| 20090015671 | FEATURES IN VIDEO ANALYTICS - A video analytics function is disclosed for use in a video monitoring applications to control and monitor streaming video from a video source arranged to monitor a field of view (FOV) and providing for end-user input to identify and modify a compression level of at least one object or area field encompassing the field of view (FOV) based on a monitoring priority of the at least one object. The inventive operation realizes reduced bandwidth and processing requirements for monitoring the FOV because of a reduction in streaming video data based on the compression level, which includes a fully-masked compression level. The novel function provides for reconstructing the FOV for viewing at an end-user interface, e.g.’ a remote workstation, and inputting end-user commands at the end-user interface to create an object field encompassing the at least one object or area field within the FOV. The compression level is defined based on a monitoring priority for the at least one object, or object field area. The bandwidth needed to transfer video comprising the FOV and compressed object fields, and the processing required to process the FOV and object fields is reduced in accord with the user-defined compression level of the object field data. The FOV is then monitored. | 01-15-2009 |
| 20090102672 | FEATURES TO REDUCE LOW-BATTERY REPORTING TO SECURITY SERVICES AT NIGHT - A battery-powered RF sensor is provided for use in security and alarm systems for monitoring alarm state conditions, and transmitting an alarm state detection signal upon detection of an alarm state condition. The RF sensor is constructed to include an RF transmitting portion, a battery, a low-battery voltage level detection portion and a counter for periodically detecting an output voltage level of the battery, and comparing the voltage level to a first threshold voltage. If the detected battery output voltage level is determined to be less than the first threshold voltage, the low- or depleted-battery state is not immediately reported, but is reported at another time if the low-battery condition persists. That is, the low battery condition would preferably not be reported until daytime hours, other than for a dead battery condition. The reporting control is implemented by use of the low-battery voltage detection portion, which looks to a counter to determine the elapsed time since the low- or depleted-battery condition is detected. If the low- or depleted-battery condition persists until the counter counts down, the condition is automatically reported. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20090171620 | AUTOFOCUS CONTROL VOLTAGE FOR INDICATING PACKAGE DIMENSIONS - A system and method for determining dimensions of a package during imaging for supply chain management is provided. The system and method utilize a value of an auto focus control voltage when an image of a package is in focus to calculate a magnification ratio. The calculated magnification ratio is used to multiply the dimensions of the package image to obtain the dimensions of the package. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090248853 | REAL TIME CONTROL AND MANAGEMENT OF SECURITY "BUDDY" SYSTEM OVER MSO LAN - An inventive system and method for a buddy security system is presented. The system and method enable the buddy security system in which messages can be exchanged between two distinct security systems. The inventive system is operable on a network having dynamic IP addresses using a centralized database of real time IP addresses. An MSO maintains the centralized database including basic information for connecting the control panels of the security systems to each other. The first and second security systems each have a control panel having a dynamic IP address; the control panel of the second system provides information to and can be controlled by the control panel of the first system. The dynamically IP address of each control panel is obtained from the centralized database. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090273462 | USING FIXED MOBILE CONVERGENCE FEMTOCELLS FOR ALARM REPORTING - An alarm reporting system and method for reporting alarms to a central monitoring station via low-power femtocells is presented. An alarm reporting system comprises a plurality of sensors, an alarm reporting module that receives alarm signals from the plurality of sensors, and a logic unit that generates an alarm message related to the alarm signal. The alarm reporting module further comprises a low-power cellular transceiver to transmit the alarm message to the femtocell. The femtocell is connected to a fixed network such as the internet. | 11-05-2009 |
| 20100030856 | INSTANT MESSAGING APPLICATIONS IN SECURITY SYSTEMS - A method of operating a security system by generating an instant message at a first location, the instant message including security system data, then transmitting the instant message from the first location over a computer network to a second location via an instant message server computer. The instant message is received at the second location, and a security system function is initiated at the second location based on the security system data from the instant message. Security system configuration data may be provided with an instant message in order to enable remote programming of the security system via the instant messaging channel. Half-duplex audio communications may also be achieved by providing digitized audio files with instant messages that may be communicated between locations. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20100127837 | PASSIVE WIRELESS SYSTEM - A passive wireless system for monitoring a protected area. The passive wireless system comprises at least one passive sensor for sensing an event, a reader for receiving signals from the at least one passive sensor, a plurality of exciters disposed within the protected area for transmitting a radio frequency pulse at a variable time interval to the at least one passive sensor, and a controller for controlling each of the plurality of exciters to transmit the radio frequency pulse at the variable time interval. The radio frequency pulse powers the passive sensors. | 05-27-2010 |
