Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
340502000 | Acknowledgement | 24 |
20080224846 | REMOTE SERVICE AUDIBLE ARMING STATE ANNUNCIATION - This invention relates to accessing security systems through a communication system such as the Internet, a LAN or a WAN, using a virtual remote keypad application which includes an audio capability to enhance user understanding of the security system's status. The virtual remote keypad application receives status information from the user's security system and audibly announces a change in status to the user. | 09-18-2008 |
20080258901 | Apparatus and Method for Verifying Procedure Compliance - A device and method for verifying compliance of a patient preparing colon preparation prior to for example a colonoscopy diagnosis. One or more reminders may be issued to the patient to perform an activity for colon preparation. A confirmation may be received responding to the reminder and the confirmation may be recorded. Information of activities recorded on the device may be provided for surveying in order to evaluate the readiness of colon preparation. | 10-23-2008 |
20080284580 | VIDEO ALARM VERIFICATION - A method for monitoring an alarm zone within a perimeter, border and/or building includes capturing video image data of an alarm event detected in the alarm zone, and automatically establishing a cell phone session with an end-user to verify a true or false nature of the detected alarm. The end-user may use the cell phone display to review the video during the cell phone session, and may use the cell phone's key for the verifying. The novel monitoring method with end-user alarm event verification avoids false alarms being raised where the nature of the detected alarm event is false, and the verifying occurs before a false alarm is raised/communicated. | 11-20-2008 |
20090231117 | SYNCHRONIZATION IN A MULTI-PANEL ALARM SYSTEM - An alarm or security system ( | 09-17-2009 |
20120038475 | METHOD OF ALARM HANDLING IN WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS - A method of wirelessly transmitting alarm signals includes wirelessly transmitting an alarm signal from a transmitting station. It is determined whether an acknowledgement signal wirelessly transmitted from an access point in response to the access point receiving the alarm signal has been received by the transmitting station. A relaying station is woken up and kept awake during a plurality of periodic time intervals for overhearing transmissions from the transmitting station. If it is determined that an acknowledgement signal from the access point has not been received by the transmitting station, then the alarm signal is wirelessly re-transmitting from the transmitting station during at least one of the time intervals in which the relaying station is awake. The alarm signal is received at the relaying station. The alarm signal is transmitted from the relaying station to the access point. | 02-16-2012 |
20120119902 | TERMINAL APPARATUS, COORDINATOR, AND METHOD FOR MANAGING EMERGENCY EVENTS - The present invention provides an integrated medium access control for processing respectively separated traffic situation sets. Another aim of the present invention is to optimize power consumption during a poll based operation of the medium access control mechanism. An additional aim of the present invention is to provide a poll-based error recovery mechanism for achieving preferred application reliability through power- and cost-efficient methods. A further aim of the present invention is to provide an in-band wakeup method for a medical implant device in a human body area network. Still a further aim of the present invention is to provide a method for a medical implant device in a human body area network. An even further aim of the present invention is to provide a method for simultaneously accessing a power channel of a poll-based minimum level and operating a plurality of BANs in medical implant communications. | 05-17-2012 |
20120176236 | EVENT NOTIFICATION METHOD AND PORTABLE APPARATUS WITH EVENT NOTIFICATION FUNCTION - An event notification method and a portable apparatus with event notification function are provided. The method comprises the following steps: A notification event is detected. Whether the notification event is read after no operation is applied to an electronic device for a first time interval is determined. If not, whether the electronic device changes to a second moving state from a first moving state and maintains the second moving state for a second time interval is determined. If so, a notification signal indicating the occurrence of the notification event is outputted. | 07-12-2012 |
20120218099 | RELAY METHOD FOR ALARM SYSTEM AND ALARM DEVICE - The relay method for an alarm system of the present invention includes: a third process in which a reception intensity of the acknowledgement signal is measured when the source alarm device receives the acknowledgement signal, and in which, if there are one or more destination alarm devices that have not transmitted the acknowledgement signal among all of the destination alarm devices registered in advance, a destination alarm device that has the lowest reception intensity of the acknowledgement signal is assigned as a relay destination alarm device; and a fourth process in which an abnormality signal is relay-transmitted from the source alarm device, through the relay destination alarm device, to the destination alarm devices that are interconnected with the relay destination alarm device, and then, from the destination alarm device that has received the abnormality signal, a signal indicating that a sender thereof is the destination alarm device is outputted, and also an acknowledgement signal is transmitted to the source alarm device. In addition, when there are one or more all of the destination alarm devices which have not transmitted an acknowledgement signal to the source alarm device among all of the destination the alarm devices registered in advance, the third and fourth processes are repeated. | 08-30-2012 |
20130015966 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HIGHLY RELIABLE DELIVERY OF LIFE-CRITICAL ALARMS THROUGH SHARED WIRELESS CHANNELS - A patient monitor includes a plurality of monitoring devices which collect data about a patient. An evaluation unit determines the patient's condition from the collected data and generates an alarm if the patient's condition warrants notifying an appropriate medical responder. A communication unit which transmits the alarm to a access point over a hospital Internet protocol (IP) network, the communication device includes a first transmitter for transmitting the alarm using a primary link and a second transmitter for transmitting the alarm using a secondary link in response to the transmission using the primary link failing. | 01-17-2013 |
20130162424 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING CLINICIAN RESPONSIVENESS TO ALARMS - A method of monitoring clinician responsiveness to alarms generated by patient monitors. The method includes the steps of: receiving an alarm event from a patient monitor at a central monitor, determining an alarm initiation time for the alarm events, receiving at the central monitor an acknowledgement of the alarm event by a clinician, calculating an event response time as the time between the alarm initiation time and the acknowledgement of the alarm event by the clinician, determining a total number of alarm events, determining event response times for each of the total number of alarm events, and computing a responsiveness score based on the event response time for each of the total number of alarm events. | 06-27-2013 |
20130201016 | Methods and Apparatus for Contingency Communications - Methods and systems for contingency communication are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for providing emergency services may be performed by a portable device operating in a communication system. In an embodiment, the method for providing emergency services includes operating in at least one of a plurality of modes. A stress mode may be entered from a normal mode in response to receiving a beacon signal indicating an emergency status. An indication may be provided on the portable device regarding the emergency status via an audio, visual, or mechanical user interface during the stress mode. An acknowledgement signal may be transmitted in response to the beacon signal. | 08-08-2013 |
20140070939 | INTERACTIVE WIRELESS LIFE SAFETY COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - An interactive wireless life safety communications system is disclosed. A central coordination server is linked to a first network, over which there is a connection to at least one resident life safety device at a specific location or for specific resident. An alarm signal is generated by the resident life safety device upon detection of an alarm condition and transmitted to the central coordination server. A caregiver communications device is connected to the central coordination server over a second network, and is receptive to an alarm notification that is generated by the central coordination server in response to the alarm signal. The caregiver communications device is also receptive to a caregiver user input, from which an action status response is generated for transmission to the central coordination server. | 03-13-2014 |
20140085076 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND SOFTWARE FOR CONTROLLING ALERT NOTIFICATIONS - A method for controlling alert notifications includes receiving, at an alert notification monitor, notifications from at least one medical device. The method further includes analyzing, at the alert notification monitor, the notifications based on one or more complex triggers to identify at least one triggered notification. The method further includes transmitting the at least one triggered notification. | 03-27-2014 |
20140091922 | REAL TIME AUTOMATIC HEADCOUNT SYSTEM - A real time automatic headcount system is configured with a portable transmitter operated by a crisis coordinator and operable to output an alert signal which is received by a plurality of receivers which are coupled to respective persons associated with a crisis-event site. The receivers each generate an acknowledgement signal transmitted via a central processing unit to the transmitter. Upon receiving the acknowledgement signal, the central processing unit is operable to update a check list of all person associated with the crisis-event site, identify those who have not been accounted for and implement back up procedures for locating and accounting for the previously unaccounted for persons in real time. | 04-03-2014 |
20140320282 | BUILDING EVACUATION SYSTEM WITH POSITIVE ACKNOWLEDGMENT - An emergency notification and response system is linked to a fire alarm system, a security system and to a communication network over which it sends and receives emergency messages to and from building occupants and to emergency response personnel. The emergency notification and response system comprises a notification module which operates to receive signals from a fire detection system and send one or more messages to building occupants to investigate the validity of a possible fire event, and to respond to the message with an indication that a fire event is in progress or not. Depending upon information received in the response, the notification module sends an evacuation message to a selected sub-set of the building occupants that includes instructions for evacuating the building. | 10-30-2014 |
20150029020 | USER MANAGEMENT OF A RESPONSE TO A SYSTEM ALARM EVENT - A system and method for managing a response to an alarm event for an alarm system monitoring a premises are provided. The premises is associated with at least one user device. The system includes a monitoring device including a processor programmed to: determine whether an alarm event has triggered at the premises, determine whether a user response message associated with the at least one user device has been received, and in response to receiving the user response message, cause an indicator at a remote monitoring center to indicate whether the user wants at least one response action. | 01-29-2015 |
20150077241 | SYSTEM FOR MONITORING, TRACKING AND RECORDING THE LOCATION OF PERSONNEL - A personal monitoring system and method is provided which includes a monitoring device including a positioning sensor for identifying and storing position data of the monitoring device and a transceiver. A remote computing unit for receiving proximity signals and position data received from the monitoring device at a predetermined interval. The remote computing unit also receives position data from the monitoring device. A central computer for location data collection receives proximity signals and position data from the remote computing unit at a predetermined interval. | 03-19-2015 |
20150302726 | System and Method for Monitoring Clinician Responsiveness to Alarms - A method of monitoring clinician responsiveness to alarms generated by patient monitors. The method includes the steps of: receiving an alarm event from a patient monitor at a central monitor, determining an alarm initiation time for the alarm events, receiving at the central monitor an acknowledgement of the alarm event by a clinician, calculating an event response time as the time between the alarm initiation time and the acknowledgement of the alarm event by the clinician, determining a total number of alarm events, determining event response times for each of the total number of alarm events, and computing a responsiveness score based on the event response time for each of the total number of alarm events. | 10-22-2015 |
20160049697 | BATTERY PACK CONTAINING COMMUNICATION ELECTRONICS - A communication electronics module is provided having a casing like a conventional battery and includes terminals which enable the module to fit into a battery socket. The module may also be incorporated into a single-cell battery or a multiple-cell battery pack. The module communicates with both the battery, the electronic device powered by the battery and other remote electronics devices. | 02-18-2016 |
20160071403 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR BROADCASTING AN ALARM FOR AN ALARM GROUP - An approach for broadcasting an alarm to a plurality of devices associated with an alarm group. The alarm is associated with a plurality of devices in an alarm group. The approach includes receiving a request. The request designates a plurality of devices as the alarm group. The approach includes determining an implementation of the alarm for the alarm group based on the request. The approach also includes broadcasting the alarm to the plurality of devices in the alarm group based on the implementation. | 03-10-2016 |
20160125725 | Backup Contact for Security/Safety Monitoring System - A method includes receiving an indication that an event has occurred in a physical space being monitored by a monitoring device that includes a plurality of sensors. In response to the indication, the method includes sending one or more primary notifications of the event over a computer-based network to each of one or more persons primarily associated with the physical space being monitored. If, after a designated amount of time, none of the primary notifications have been viewed by any of the persons primarily associated with the physical space being monitored, the method includes sending a backup notification of the event over the computer-based network to one or more persons designated as backup contacts. The backup notification is logically associated with information that the one or more backup contacts can access about the event. The logical association can be embodied by a link (e.g., a hyperlink) in the backup notification. | 05-05-2016 |
20160155315 | Adaptive Handling of Operating Data | 06-02-2016 |
20160155320 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CONTINGENCY COMMUNICATIONS | 06-02-2016 |
20160379465 | Adaptive Handling of Abnormal-Condition Indicator Criteria - Disclosed herein are systems, devices, and methods related to assets and asset operating conditions. In particular, examples involve determining health metrics that estimate the operating health of an asset or a part thereof, analyzing health metrics to determine variables that are associated with high health metrics, and modifying the handling of operating conditions that normally result in triggering of abnormal-condition indicators, among other examples. | 12-29-2016 |