Patents by Inventor Conor J. Donovan

Conor J. Donovan has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20230230469
    Abstract: A security system of a building includes a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to detect, based on data of security equipment of the building, that a security alarm of the building is a false alarm and search, responsive to the detection of the false alarm, a database to identify a past corrective action accepted for implementation and at least one false alarm occurring after the past corrective action was accepted and before detection of the false alarm. The processing circuits is configured to generate a corrective action to reduce an occurrence of the false alarm based on a result of the search and implement the corrective action to update operation of the security equipment to reduce the occurrence of the false alarm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2023
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Shawn D. Schubert, Conor J. Donovan
  • Patent number: 10607478
    Abstract: Systems and methods for reducing false alarms of a building are disclosed. The system includes a processing circuit configured to receive building security data of the building, the building security data comprising one or more events and identify a plurality of satisfied rules of a plurality of rules based on the one or more events, wherein each of the plurality of rules is associated with a particular sequence of one or more particular events. The processing circuit is also configured to select one satisfied rule of the plurality of satisfied rules based on a rule hierarchy, wherein the rule hierarchy indicates a classification level of each of the plurality of satisfied rules and generate a recommendation for reducing a false alarm associated with the one satisfied rule, wherein the recommendation comprises an indication of a root cause of the false alarm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Michael C. Stewart, Gopi Subramanian, Conor J. Donovan