Patents Assigned to Tyco Safety Products Canada Ltd.
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Patent number: 11138866Abstract: A building management system tracks occupants of a building in which the building management system is installed and presents information about the occupants, including location information, to first responders during emergency and/or training events. Distributed devices of the building management system receive identification information broadcast by user devices of the occupants and sends the identification information to a control panel of the building management system. Location information for the occupants is generated based on the identification information received from the user devices and stored along with time and date information. This location information is then retrieved and presented to first responders, for example, by displaying a map of the building with icons representing the distributed devices and occupants, based on the location information.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2020Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: Tyco Safety Products Canada Ltd.Inventors: Bruno Gravel, David-Alexandre Bourbonnais
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Patent number: 10958878Abstract: A user-centric management application system and method for a security system that conceptualizes the security devices and the tasks to perform on the security devices as separate objects with common properties and behavior. Operators of the system create abstract containers, called dockviews, which the operator adds objects to in order to perform specific tasks. Because the operator assigns user access to dockviews and objects, the system tailors system access for both application users and tenants of the security system based on policy objectives. Dockviews have the ability to open in separate application windows to support priority display and isolation of critical management tasks. The system provides integrated user administration, event management and reports capability, a consistent “look and feel,” and system-wide automated event notification via a watchlist window.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2017Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: Tyco Safety Products Canada Ltd.Inventors: Stephan Frenette, Francois Cossette
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Patent number: 10911074Abstract: A wireless communication device includes a first transceiver operable according to a first radio technology and a second transceiver operable according to a second radio technology and operable concurrently with the first transceiver. The wireless communication device further includes an antenna configured to transmit radio transmissions of the second transceiver, and a filter circuit coupling the second transceiver with the antenna. The filter circuit includes a first frequency path and a second frequency path in parallel. The first frequency path passes a first set of frequencies of the radio transmissions and the second frequency path passes a second set of frequencies of the radio transmissions. One of the first frequency path or the second frequency path is configured to filter the radio transmissions of the second transceiver to remove signals corresponding to the one or more operating frequencies of the first transceiver from the radio transmissions of the second transceiver.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2019Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: Tyco Safety Products Canada Ltd.Inventors: James Thomas Kenning, Jun Xu, Steven Seung Chul Lee
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Patent number: 10872520Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure include methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable media that perform the steps of determining, in response to receiving a first failed supervision signal, a notification signal, or failing to receive a first anticipated supervision signal, that at least the first communication channel is entering into a failure state or in the failure state, monitoring, in response to determining that the first communication channel is entering into a failure state or in the failure state, a second communication channel for a second supervision signal from the security device, and receiving the second supervision signal from the security device via the second communication channel.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2019Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignee: TYCO SAFETY PRODUCTS CANADA LTD.Inventors: Derek Carl Smith, Stephane Foisy
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Patent number: 10818159Abstract: Alarm system arrangements (e.g., methods, apparatus, etc.) including receiving data originating from an entity located outside of a monitored premise, the data providing information detailing an impending request for temporary access of the monitored premise; and using the data to determine a predefined access plan to allow the temporary access to a predefined sub-area of the premises without triggering an alarm event, and to implement the predefined access plan at a time of receipt of an actual request for the temporary access. One example involves using the data to determine a predefined access plan which includes temporarily disabling of the alarm system's ability to recognize an alarm event with respect to activities occurring with respect to a predefined sub-area of the premises during the temporary access, and to implement the predefined access plan at a time relative to receipt of an actual request for the temporary access.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2020Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: TYCO SAFETY PRODUCTS CANADA LTD.Inventor: Martin Sol
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Patent number: 10803720Abstract: A method and system architecture for automation and alarm systems is provided. An intelligent fire detection sensor is provided that provides input data to a gateway device for processing and facilitates two-way communication with users and a third-party monitoring service. The system architecture is hierarchically organized, allowing devices to process system data differently at different levels of the hierarchy. Processing of at least some of the sensor data is overseen by the gateway device, which may determine, based on the processing, to activate one or more secondary sensors at the fire detector (such as an optical camera). The gateway device and fire detection sensor may interact cooperatively to process voice commands and/or gesture data, and to recognize false alarms.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2016Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: TYCO SAFETY PRODUCTS CANADA LTD.Inventors: Andrei Bucsa, Greg Hill
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Patent number: 10795328Abstract: A method and system for processing information from a control panel in a building management system validates programming data of the control panel and then a monitoring station responding to the information from the control panel if its programming data was validated. A server system can be used for this validation. The proposed system can provide a lightweight system for validation to avoid problems arising from incorrectly configured panels sending false alarms to monitoring stations.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2018Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: TYCO SAFETY PRODUCTS CANADA LTD.Inventors: Stephane Foisy, Derek Smith, Dwayne Richard Salsman, Trevor E. Green
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Patent number: 10747185Abstract: A system and method for communication between a building management system control panel and a monitoring station are disclosed. Examples of building management systems include fire alarm systems and security systems. The monitoring station and the control panel establish an encrypted channel between each other. The monitoring station and the control panel then transmit status information over the encrypted channel. In examples, the status information includes alarm information sent from fire control panels, intrusion information sent from security panels, and operational information of the panels and/or monitoring station, in examples.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2018Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: TYCO SAFETY PRODUCTS CANADA LTD.Inventors: Stephane Foisy, Derek Smith
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Patent number: 10713934Abstract: A unified presence detection and prediction platform that is privacy aware is described. The platform is receives signals from plural sensor devices that are disposed within a premises. The platform produces profiles of entities based on detected characteristics developed from relatively inexpensive and privacy-aware sensors, i.e., non-video and non-audio sensor devices. The platform using these profiles and sensor signals from relatively inexpensive and privacy-aware sensors determines specific identification and produces historical patterns. Also described are techniques that allow users (persons), when authorized, to control remote devices/systems generally without direct interaction with such systems merely by the systems detecting and in instances predicting the specific presence of an identified individual in a location within the premises.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2016Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: TYCO SAFETY PRODUCTS CANADA LTD.Inventors: Rajmy Sayavong, Gregory W. Hill, David J. LeBlanc, Samuel D. Rosewall, Jr., Gerald M. Bluhm, Michael DeRose, IV, Rob Vandervecht
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Patent number: 10650668Abstract: A unified presence detection and prediction platform that is privacy aware is described. The platform is receives signals from plural sensor devices that are disposed within a premises. The platform produces profiles of entities based on detected characteristics developed from relatively inexpensive and privacy-aware sensors, i.e., non-video and non-audio sensor devices. The platform using these profiles and sensor signals from relatively inexpensive and privacy-aware sensors determines specific identification and produces historical patterns. Also described are techniques that allow users (persons), when authorized, to control remote devices/systems generally without direct interaction with such systems merely by the systems detecting and in instances predicting the specific presence of an identified individual in a location within the premises.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2016Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: TYCO SAFETY PRODUCTS CANADA LTD.Inventors: Rajmy Sayavong, Gregory W. Hill, David J. LeBlanc, Samuel D. Rosewell, Jr., Gerald M. Bluhm, Michael DeRose, IV, Rob Vandervecht
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Patent number: 10636286Abstract: Techniques for decoding communications transmitted by a remote alarm panel over a communications network to a central monitoring station (CMS) are provided. A first signal from the remote alarm panel can be received by the CMS. The CMS can determine that the first signal cannot be decoded due to errors, missing data, or corrupted data in the first signal. The remote alarm panel can retransmit the signal. The CMS can analyze the first and second signals to determine if the first signal can be reconstructed based on information provided by the second signal. The first signal can subsequently be repaired and decoded, allowing the CMS to more quickly respond to the alarm condition provided in the first signal.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2017Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: TYCO SAFETY PRODUCTS CANADA LTDInventors: Derek C. Smith, Stephane Foisy, Pavel Raikhlin, Joshua Gregory Hutchison
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Patent number: 10608909Abstract: A network data aggregation system and method for connected building management systems are disclosed. The aggregation system assesses network connectivity for the building management system. For this purpose, the aggregation system includes building management control panels including modems for reporting to monitoring stations, and a customer management server (CMS). The control panels collect network connectivity information of the modems, and the CMS receives the network connectivity information. In one example, the CMS analyzes the network connectivity information to identify issues in service provider networks that provide connections between the modems of the building management control panels and the service provider networks.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2018Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: TYCO SAFETY PRODUCTS CANADA LTD.Inventors: Jason Breed, Derek C. Smith, Stephane Foisy
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Patent number: 10592306Abstract: A method and system architecture for automation and alarm systems is provided. According to exemplary embodiments, relatively simple processing tasks are performed at the sensor level, with more complex processing being shifted to the gateway entity or a networked processing device. The gateway entity dynamically allocates processing resources for sensors. If a sensor detects than an event is occurring, or predicts that an event is about to occur, the sensor submits a resources allocation request and a power balancer running on the gateway entity processes the request. In response to the resources allocation request, the gateway entity allocates some processing resources to the requesting sensor and the data is processed in real-time or near-real-time by the gateway entity.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2015Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: TYCO SAFETY PRODUCTS CANADA LTD.Inventors: Andrei Bucsa, Greg Hill
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Patent number: 10565859Abstract: A building management system tracks occupants of a building in which the building management system is installed and presents information about the occupants, including location information, to first responders during emergency and/or training events. Distributed devices of the building management system receive identification information broadcast by user devices of the occupants and sends the identification information to a control panel of the building management system. Location information for the occupants is generated based on the identification information received from the user devices and stored along with time and date information. This location information is then retrieved and presented to first responders, for example, by displaying a map of the building with icons representing the distributed devices and occupants, based on the location information.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2018Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: Tyco Safety Products Canada Ltd.Inventors: Bruno Gravel, David-Alexandre Bourbonnais
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Patent number: 10565856Abstract: Alarm system arrangements (e.g., methods, apparatus, etc.) including receiving data originating from an entity located outside of a monitored premise, the data providing information detailing an impending request for temporary access of the monitored premise; and using the data to determine a predefined access plan to allow the temporary access to a predefined sub-area of the premises without triggering an alarm event, and to implement the predefined access plan at a time of receipt of an actual request for the temporary access. One example involves using the data to determine a predefined access plan which includes temporarily disabling of the alarm system's ability to recognize an alarm event with respect to activities occurring with respect to a predefined sub-area of the premises during the temporary access, and to implement the predefined access plan at a time relative to receipt of an actual request for the temporary access.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2018Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: TYCO SAFETY PRODUCTS CANADA LTD.Inventor: Martin Sol
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Patent number: 10529222Abstract: A unified presence detection and prediction platform that is privacy aware is described. The platform is receives signals from plural sensor devices that are disposed within a premises. The platform produces profiles of entities based on detected characteristics developed from relatively inexpensive and privacy-aware sensors, i.e., non-video and non-audio sensor devices. The platform using these profiles and sensor signals from relatively inexpensive and privacy-aware sensors determines specific identification and produces historical patterns. Also described are techniques that allow users (persons), when authorized, to control remote devices/systems generally without direct interaction with such systems merely by the systems detecting and in instances predicting the specific presence of an identified individual in a location within the premises.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2016Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: TYCO SAFETY PRODUCTS CANADA LTD.Inventors: Rajmy Sayavong, Gregory W. Hill, David J. LeBlanc, Samuel D. Rosewell, Jr., Gerald M. Bluhm, Michael DeRose, IV, Rob Vandervecht
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Patent number: 10504358Abstract: A unified presence detection and prediction platform that is privacy aware is described. The platform is receives signals from plural sensor devices that are disposed within a premises. The platform produces profiles of entities based on detected characteristics developed from relatively inexpensive and privacy-aware sensors, i.e., non-video and non-audio sensor devices. The platform using these profiles and sensor signals from relatively inexpensive and privacy-aware sensors determines specific identification and produces historical patterns. Also described are techniques that allow users (persons), when authorized, to control remote devices/systems generally without direct interaction with such systems merely by the systems detecting and in instances predicting the specific presence of an identified individual in a location within the premises.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2016Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: TYCO SAFETY PRODUCTS CANADA LTD.Inventors: Rajmy Sayavong, Gregory W. Hill, David J. LeBlanc, Samuel D. Rosewall, Jr., Gerald M. Bluhm, Michael DeRose, IV, Rob Vandervecht
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Patent number: 10482759Abstract: A unified presence detection and prediction platform that is privacy aware is described. The platform is receives signals from plural sensor devices that are disposed within a premises. The platform produces profiles of entities based on detected characteristics developed from relatively inexpensive and privacy-aware sensors, i.e., non-video and non-audio sensor devices. The platform using these profiles and sensor signals from relatively inexpensive and privacy-aware sensors determines specific identification and produces historical patterns. Also described are techniques that allow users (persons), when authorized, to control remote devices/systems generally without direct interaction with such systems merely by the systems detecting and in instances predicting the specific presence of an identified individual in a location within the premises.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2016Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: TYCO SAFETY PRODUCTS CANADA LTD.Inventors: Rajmy Sayavong, Gregory W. Hill, David J. LeBlanc, Samuel D. Rosewall, Jr., Gerald M. Bluhm, Michael DeRose, IV, Rob Vandervecht
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Publication number: 20190304289Abstract: Alarm system arrangements (e.g., methods, apparatus, etc.) including receiving data originating from an entity located outside of a monitored premise, the data providing information detailing an impending request for temporary access of the monitored premise; and using the data to determine a predefined access plan to allow the temporary access to a predefined sub-area of the premises without triggering an alarm event, and to implement the predefined access plan at a time of receipt of an actual request for the temporary access. One example involves using the data to determine a predefined access plan which includes temporarily disabling of the alarm system's ability to recognize an alarm event with respect to activities occurring with respect to a predefined sub-area of the premises during the temporary access, and to implement the predefined access plan at a time relative to receipt of an actual request for the temporary access.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2018Publication date: October 3, 2019Applicant: Tyco Safety Products Canada Ltd.Inventor: Martin Sol
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Patent number: 10419725Abstract: A user-centric management application system and method for a security system that conceptualizes the security devices and the tasks to perform on the security devices as separate objects with common properties and behavior. Operators of the system create abstract containers, called dockviews, which the operator adds objects to in order to perform specific tasks. Because the operator assigns user access to dockviews and objects, the system tailors system access for both application users and tenants of the security system based on policy objectives. Dockviews have the ability to open in separate application windows to support priority display and isolation of critical management tasks. The system provides integrated user administration, event management and reports capability, a consistent “look and feel,” and system-wide automated event notification via a watchlist window.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2013Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Tyco Safety Products Canada Ltd.Inventors: Luc Champagne, Yanik Brunet