Patents Assigned to Alarm.com
  • Patent number: 12207171
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for smart speakerphone emergency monitoring are disclosed. A method includes detecting a sound at one or more of multiple locations of a property; determining that the sound indicates an emergency at the property; sending, to a monitoring station, an indication of the emergency; receiving, from the monitoring station, a two-way voice call; and broadcasting the two-way voice call to the multiple locations of the property. Detecting the sound at one or more of multiple locations of a property includes receiving audio data generated by one or more of a plurality of speakerphones, each speakerphone being located at one of the multiple locations of the property. Each speakerphone includes an audio microphone and an audio speaker, the speakerphone being configured to communicate with a speakerphone hub device using digital enhanced cordless telecommunications (DECT) signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Alarm.com Incorporated
    Inventor: Roy Franklin Perry
  • Patent number: 12206545
    Abstract: An electronic monitoring system is described that receives data from a particular monitoring system, receives data from multiple other monitoring systems, analyzes data received from the particular monitoring system irrespective of data received from the multiple other monitoring systems, based on the analysis determines whether one or more events occur at the particular environment, and in response to determining that a particular event occurs at the particular environment, evaluates the particular event against a set of rules, selects, based on the evaluation results, a particular subset of the multiple other monitoring systems to serve as a cooperative monitoring network, assesses data received from the particular subset of the multiple other monitoring systems, based on the assessment, tracks, in connection with the particular event, events detected by the particular subset of the multiple other monitoring systems, and handles the particular event based on the tracked events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Alarm.com Incorporated
    Inventor: David James Hutz
  • Patent number: 12198526
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for pathogen detection. One of the methods includes providing, to a classifier, sensor data for a physical area, at a property, to cause the classifier to generate output data using the sensor data; receiving, from the classifier, the output data that indicates whether a pathogen was likely detected; detecting, using the output data, a likely pathogen in the physical area; determining whether to provide an alert given the detection of the likely pathogen; and in response to determining whether to provide the alert given the detection of the likely pathogen, selectively providing, to a device, the alert to cause the device to present the alert or determining to skip providing the alert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Alarm.com Incorporated
    Inventor: Ramy Samir Aziz ElDelgawy
  • Patent number: 12198525
    Abstract: Fall detection and reporting technology, in which output from at least one sensor configured to sense, in a room of a building, activity associated with a patient falling is monitored and a determination is made to capture one or more images of the room based on the monitoring. An image of the room is captured with a camera positioned to include the patient within a field of view of the camera and the captured image of the room is analyzed to detect a state of the patient at a time of capturing the image. A potential fall event for the patient is determined based on the detected state of the patient and a message indicating the potential fall event for the patient is sent based on the determination of the potential fall event for the patient. Techniques are also described for fall detection and reporting using an on-body sensing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Alarm.com Incorporated
    Inventors: Mark Andrew Hanson, Jean-Paul Martin, Adam T. Barth, Christopher Silverman
  • Patent number: 12185886
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for automatically cleaning a portion of an environment. One of the methods includes detecting, by an automated cleaning system, movement within a physical environment; determining, by the automated cleaning system and using data that represents the movement, that one or more threshold criteria for cleaning at least a portion of the physical environment are satisfied; and in response to determining that the one or more threshold criteria for cleaning at least the portion of the physical environment are satisfied, sending, by the automated cleaning system, an instruction to a device in the physical environment to cause the device to initiate a cleaning process of at least the portion of the physical environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Alarm.com Incorporated
    Inventors: Donald Gerard Madden, Michael Kelly, Matthew Daniel Correnti, Ethan Shayne, Robert Nathan Picardi
  • Patent number: 12181374
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a storage device, for performing dynamic water leak detection are disclosed. A method includes receiving, from one or more sensors that are located throughout a property, sensor data; determining, based on the sensor data, a water usage mode of the property; selecting, based on the water usage mode, water usage criteria; receiving current water usage data representing water usage at the property; determining, based on the current water usage data, that water usage satisfies the water usage criteria; and in response to determining that the water usage at the property satisfies the water usage criteria, determining that a water leak exists at the property. The method can include storing water usage criteria corresponding to each of multiple different water usage modes, and selecting, from the stored water usage criteria, particular water usage criteria corresponding to the determined water usage mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Alarm.com Incorporated
    Inventors: Grant Rudd, Robert Nathan Picardi, Daniel Marc Goodman, Craig Carl Heffernan, Harrison Wayne Donahue, Liam Shea Daly
  • Patent number: 12169414
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for drone navigation within a property. A method includes detecting an obstacle in a navigation path of a drone, determining a classification of the obstacle, determining whether to temporarily land based on the classification of the obstacle, and temporarily landing the drone until the obstacle clears the navigation path of the drone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Alarm.com Incorporated
    Inventors: Babak Rezvani, Donald Gerard Madden, Glenn Tournier, Ahmad Seyfi
  • Patent number: 12169878
    Abstract: A drone is used to map difficult transition spaces within buildings such as staircases between different levels of a multi-level building. The mapping technique used may vary based on the type of building space. For instance, for linear staircases, an orthogonal trajectory path or a smooth trajectory path may be used to map the transition space. The orthogonal trajectory path and the smooth trajectory path may be derived, at least in part, on initial and terminating points provided by a user. For circular staircases, a user may move the drone from the initial point to the terminating point, and the drone may determine a trajectory path based on the user's movement of the drone from the initial point to the terminating point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Alarm.com Incorporated
    Inventors: Ilja Nevdahs, Agris Kipurs
  • Patent number: 12159526
    Abstract: In some implementations, techniques are described for detecting abnormal installations in a property monitored by a monitoring (e.g., security) system. For instance, an aberration engine may be used to detect an abnormal sensor or system installation within a property based on comparing detected installation data against local installation patterns of local providers within a certain proximity to the property. In some examples, the attributes (e.g., installation time, components used, number of tests performed, etc.) of a monitoring system installation, including installation of components of the monitoring system, may be compared to average installation times of other nearby installations to detect abnormalities in the installation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Alarm.com Incorporated
    Inventor: Stephen Scott Trundle
  • Patent number: 12140976
    Abstract: Systems and techniques are described for monitoring energy use habits of consumers. In some implementations, a method includes obtaining temperature data from a monitored property. An energy model of the monitored property is generated based on the obtained temperature data. The current temperature data is obtained from the monitored property. The current temperature data is provided to the generated energy model to generate a duty-cycle for turning an HVAC system of the monitored property off an on during the on-peak hours. The HVAC system of the monitored property is instructed to cycle off and on during the on-peak hours based on the generated duty-cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Alarm.com Incorporated
    Inventors: Alexander Lawrence Reeder, Caspar John Anderegg, Gustaf Nicolaus Maxwell Lonaeus, William Converse Blanchard, Jean-Paul Martin, Benjamin Michael Machlin
  • Patent number: 12133508
    Abstract: Systems and techniques are described for pet monitoring during unattended delivery. In some implementations, a monitoring system monitors a property includes sensors located throughout the property and generates sensor data. A monitor control unit receives a first indication that a resident of the property will be receiving a delivery during a delivery time. Based on the sensor data and during the delivery time, the monitor control unit determines that a pet, that resides at the property, has been restrained. The monitor control unit provides, to a delivery person, a second indication that the pet at the property has been restrained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Alarm.com Incorporated
    Inventors: Jeffrey A. Bedell, Abraham Joseph Kinney, Jace Jawn Bauer, Robert Nathan Picardi, Matthew Daniel Correnti
  • Patent number: 12123719
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-storage media, for lighting adaptive navigation. In some implementations, a method includes receiving map data associated with a property; obtaining sensor data; based on the map data and the sensor data, determining a lighting scenario; and based on the lighting scenario, configuring the robotic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Alarm.com Incorporated
    Inventors: Ahmad Seyfi, Timon Meyer, Donald Gerard Madden, Babak Rezvani
  • Patent number: 12125355
    Abstract: Video monitoring and alarm verification technology, in which a first connection is established between a first device and a camera located in a monitored property associated with a user of the first device and image data captured by the camera is received over the first connection and at the first device. A determination is made to establish a second connection with a second device that enables sharing of the received image data with the second device and, in response to the determination, the second connection is established between the first device and the second device. The received image data is shared with the second device over the second connection and the second device is restricted from directly accessing image data captured by the camera located in the monitored property.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Alarm.com Incorporated
    Inventors: Alison Jane Slavin, Robert J. McCarthy, Jr., David James Hutz, Stephen Scott Trundle, Jean-Paul Martin
  • Patent number: 12124294
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for adjusting an adjustable textile based on sensor data. The methods, systems, and apparatus include actions of receiving sensor data from one or more sensors installed at a property, generating an analysis result by analyzing the sensor data, and determining, based on the analysis result, an action that adjusts an inflation level of an adjustable textile at the property.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Alarm.com Incorporated
    Inventors: Johnathan Michael Carone, Isaac Murakami, Matthew Daniel Correnti, Eric Liao, Alice Kuprenas, Alexander Prugh
  • Patent number: 12118481
    Abstract: In some implementations, a system is capable of generating and distributing access credentials to users that access a rental property for a limited time period. Users can be provided with access to the rental property through an application or webpage portal without creating a new user account or user login for the application. For example, a user can be granted access to control electronic devices associated with a monitoring system of a rental property without creating a new user account with the monitoring system. Techniques described herein enable such users to more easily access, for example, rental property information that is associated with a monitoring system of the rental property. In this manner, access credentials can be distributed to users through any suitable means, e.g., through email or SMS, and used to temporarily authenticate users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Alarm.com Incorporated
    Inventors: Fabian Emilio Philipe Camargo, Michael Montgomery Brophy
  • Patent number: 12112593
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-storage media, for enhanced property access with video analytics. In some implementations, images of a first area captured by a camera are obtained. A number of persons in the first area is determined from the images. Data indicating one or more unique identifications is received. A number of persons who are authorized to access a second area are determined. Access is provided to the second area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Alarm.com Incorporated
    Inventor: Ki Ha Nam
  • Patent number: 12114101
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for preserving privacy in surveillance. The methods, systems, and apparatus include actions of determining a state of a monitoring system, determining an exclusion zone that is shown in a video, determining whether to obfuscate at least a portion of the video based on the exclusion zone and the state of the monitoring system, and obfuscating at least the portion of the video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Alarm.com Incorporated
    Inventors: Stephen Scott Trundle, Daniel Todd Kerzner, Donald Gerard Madden, Benjamin Asher Berg
  • Patent number: 12094249
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for integrating a monitoring system with accessibility features. The method includes: receiving data from a sensor of a monitoring system that is configured to monitor a property; determining, based on the data received from the sensor, that a user located at the property exhibits symptoms of an impairment; determining that an event likely occurred at the property; determining a monitoring system action to perform in response to the event; modifying, based on determining that the user located at the property exhibits symptoms of the impairment, the monitoring system action; and performing the modified monitoring system action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Alarm.com Incorporated
    Inventors: Matthew Daniel Correnti, Michael Kelly, Robert Nathan Picardi
  • Patent number: 12092624
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for integrating a monitoring system with one or more air quality sensors. The method includes receiving data indicating a level of volatile organic compounds within an area, determining an increase in the level of volatile organic compounds within the area, receiving video data that shows the area, detecting, from the video data, a new item of furniture within the area, sending a notification that indicates an increase in the level of volatile organic compounds is likely caused by the new item of furniture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Alarm.com Incorporated
    Inventors: Catherine Conway, Robert Nathan Picardi, Craig Carl Heffernan, Daniel Marc Goodman, Harrison Wayne Donahue
  • Patent number: 12094314
    Abstract: A monitoring system that is configured to monitor a property includes a camera that is configured to capture video data of the property. The monitoring system further includes a microphone that is configured to capture audio data of the property. The monitoring system further includes a monitor control unit that is configured to access and analyze the video data. The monitor control unit is further configured to determine that an alarm condition does not exist at the property. The monitor control unit is further configured to access and analyze the audio data. The monitor control unit is further configured to override the determination that an alarm condition does not exist at the property. The monitor control unit is further configured to, based on overriding the determination that an alarm condition does not exist at the property, perform a monitoring system action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Alarm.com Incorporated
    Inventor: Matthew Daniel Correnti