Patents Assigned to THE ADT SECURITY CORPORATION
  • Patent number: 12293649
    Abstract: According to some embodiments, a system is provided. The system comprises a computing system that is configured to receive an alarm signal from a premises monitoring system that is configured to monitor a premises, receive alarm event data associated with an alarm event, store the alarm event data associated with the alarm event in at least one data store of the computing system, enforce an access control policy on the alarm event data stored in the at least one data store, the access control policy restricting access to the alarm event data based on time and a plurality of roles of a plurality of users of the computing system, perform at least one analytics operation on the alarm event data associated with the alarm event, and update a value of a current alarm score based on an output of the at least one analytics operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: The ADT Security Corporation
    Inventors: Lawrence David Folsom, Thomas Nakatani, Susan Carie Small, Dmitry Vaynriber, Thomas Henry King, Mitchell Patrick Smith, Jason Adukuzhiyil George, Brooke Smith
  • Patent number: 12283174
    Abstract: A management device for a premises security system that is configured to monitor a premises is provided. The management device includes an ultra-wideband (UWB) transceiver configured to provide a coverage area, and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is in communication with the UWB transceiver and configured to detect a UWB device within the coverage area, determine a distance of the UWB device from the management device based on signaling received from the UWB transceiver, determine a movement vector of the UWB device based on the signaling received from the UWB transceiver, and initiate a premises security system action based on the distance and the movement vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: The ADT Security Corporation
    Inventors: Steven Else, Jatin Patel
  • Patent number: 12277765
    Abstract: A method in a premises device is provided, where the premises device is configured with a plurality of analytics models and located in a premises environment. The method includes generating a dataset comprising surveillance data associated with a premises environment in which the premises device operates, determining metadata associated with the dataset, determining, for each analytics model of the plurality of analytics models, a corresponding predicted performance score based at least in part on the metadata, selecting a highest-scoring analytics model of the plurality of analytics models based at least in part on the corresponding predicted performance score, and analyzing the dataset using the highest-scoring analytics model to generate a prediction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: The ADT Security Corporation
    Inventor: Thomas Nakatani
  • Patent number: 12236764
    Abstract: According to one or more embodiments, an interaction device is provided. The interaction device includes processing circuitry configured to render for display a first premises security video comprising a plurality of frames, determine a user interaction with a playback of the first premises security video, determine a plurality of logical weights associated with the plurality of frames based at least on the user interaction, train a machine learning model based at least on the plurality of logical weights, and perform a premises security system action based at least on the trained machine learning model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: The ADT Security Corporation
    Inventor: Shy Ward
  • Patent number: 12211360
    Abstract: A control device for a premises security system is provided. The control device includes processing circuitry configured to receive a plurality of video streams associated with the plurality of image capture devices, stitch together at least a portion of the plurality of video streams to generate a three-dimensional (3D) view, determine an alarm event associated with the premises security system, and overlay at least one virtual object onto the 3D view, where the at least one virtual object indicates the alarm event and data associated with the alarm event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: The ADT Security Corporation
    Inventor: Edward Bacco
  • Patent number: 12211358
    Abstract: A control device in a premises security system configured to communicate with a premises device that includes a radar sensor for sensing hand gestures is provided. The control device receives signaling from the premises device indicative of a hand gesture, performs a first correlation of the hand gesture to a predetermined premises security system command, performs a second correlation of a verbal security password, a speaker voice recognition, a presence of the user's phone near the control device, a presence of a registered wearable near the control device, a camera viewing a registered home occupant inside the premises, or biometrics to the predetermined premises security system command, and performs a first action based on the first correlation and second correlation, such as arming or disarming the premises security system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: The ADT Security Corporation
    Inventor: Mark Reimer
  • Patent number: 12198528
    Abstract: A premises device associated with a premises security system includes a three-dimensional (3D) depth sensor and a camera and processing circuitry in communication with the camera and the 3D depth sensor. The processing circuitry in the premises device generates a two-dimensional (2D) template of a face based on an image captured by the camera. The 2D template indicates a facial characteristic associated with the person's face. A 3D mapping of the facial characteristic is generated using data from the 3D depth sensor. At least one of an emotional state or facial gesture is determined based on the 3D mapping. The premises security system performs a security action based on the at least one of the determined emotional state or facial gesture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: The ADT Security Corporation
    Inventors: Steven Else, Jatin Patel
  • Patent number: 12198514
    Abstract: According to some embodiments, a premises security system that is configured to monitor a premises is provided. The premises security system includes a multi-function premises device including a multi-axis accelerometer for monitoring the premises according to at least one of a plurality of sensor types where the multi-function premises device is configured to generate device data including accelerometer data associated with the multi-axis accelerometer. The premise security system includes a security control device configured to receive the device data, analyze the device data based on one of the plurality of sensor types, and initiate a premises security system action based on the analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: The ADT Security Corporation
    Inventors: Steven Else, Jatin Patel
  • Patent number: 12137261
    Abstract: Roles and rights management systems are provided. The systems are configured for receiving an in-vehicle video recording of a rideshare vehicle, where the in-vehicle video recording includes a video recording segment associated with a plurality of rideshare users, determining that the plurality of rideshare users are permitted to vote on an action associated with the video recording segment, receiving, from at least one of the plurality of rideshare users, at least one vote associated with the video recording segment, and initiating the action in response to the at least one vote.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: The ADT Security Corporation
    Inventors: Steven Alfonse Zaccardi, Ting Zhao
  • Patent number: 12130733
    Abstract: Test devices, apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed. A test device for testing accessibility of a user interface is described. The test device comprises processing circuitry configured to generate a data structure based on a plurality of user interface files. The data structure comprises a plurality of data structure nodes, and each user interface file comprises a plurality of file elements associated with the accessibility of the user interface. Each data structure node of the plurality of data structure nodes corresponds to one or more file elements of the plurality of file elements. An accessibility test of the user interface is performed based on the data structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: The ADT Security Corporation
    Inventor: Scott Wolf
  • Patent number: 12133025
    Abstract: A computing system is described. The computing system is configured to receive, from a portal device of a premises monitoring system, a first request for a list of compatible pipelines for a premises analytics device of the premises monitoring system, identify a plurality of pipelines that are compatible with the premises analytics device based on a parameter, and transmit the list of compatible pipelines to the portal device. The computing system is further configured to receive, from the portal device, a second request to deploy a user selected pipeline of the plurality of pipelines referenced in the list of compatible pipelines, transmit a command, to a third-party system, to obtain a pipeline deployment based on the user selected pipeline, and receive, from the third-party system, the pipeline deployment based on the user selected pipeline. The pipeline deployment is transmitted to the premises analytics device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: The ADT Security Corporation
    Inventors: Edward M. Bacco, Philippe Sawaya, Sara Magee Smith, Andrew O'Connor, Tarmily Wen
  • Patent number: 12132657
    Abstract: According to some embodiments, a system for managing customer premises equipment is provided. The system comprises a plurality of server groups, where each server group of the plurality of server groups is associated with a respective one of a plurality of hash values. The system comprises a load balancer that is configured to receive first signaling from a customer premises equipment associated with a first customer, the first signaling indicating a first hash value of the plurality of hash values, determine a first server group of the plurality of server groups to service the customer premises equipment based on the first hash value, select a first server of a plurality of servers in the first server group to service the first message, and route the first signaling to the first server to service the first signaling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: The ADT Security Corporation
    Inventor: David Magnus Olafson
  • Patent number: 12131619
    Abstract: A system is provided. The system includes a premises sensor configured to detect a premises condition, a premises security control device configured to obtain data from the premises sensor representing the premises condition, the premises security control device is further configured to communicate with a remote monitoring center, a user interface device is configured to communicate with the premises monitoring control device. The user interface device includes a plastic housing, a liquid crystal display (LCD) removably secured to the plastic housing, a fingerprint sensor mounted in a fixed position relative to the plastic housing and the LCD, and processing circuitry configured to: receive fingerprint data from the fingerprint sensor, determine that the fingerprint data meets an authentication criterion, and in response to determining that the fingerprint data meets the authentication criterion, trigger a premises security system action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: The ADT Security Corporation
    Inventors: Steven Else, Jatin Patel
  • Patent number: 12128853
    Abstract: A method implemented by a security control device of a premises security system that is configured to monitor a premises includes communicating, via the premises security system, with a component of a vehicle and controlling an ability of the vehicle to be driven. The ability of the vehicle to be driven may be based on a state of the premises security system. Sensor information received from a premises device of the security system that indicates the presence of an occupant within the premises may be used to control the ability of the vehicle to be driven. In addition, the premises security system may communicate with the vehicle's key fob and control the ability of the vehicle to be driven using the key fob and its detected location. The ability of the vehicle to be driven can also be managed in accordance with a predefined time schedule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: The ADT Security Corporation
    Inventor: John Kamieniecki
  • Patent number: 12125331
    Abstract: In some embodiments, an authentication device is provided. The authentication device configured to determine that the wearable device is authorized to participate in the premises security system, cause transmission of a first security token that is usable to validate that the wearable device is authorized to participate in the premises security system, in response to the status update, request the first security token from the wearable device, validate that the wearable device is authorized to participate in the premises security system based at least in part on the first security token received from the wearable device and in response to validating that the wearable device is authorized to participate in the premises security system, cause transmission of a second security token to the wearable device where the second security token is usable to trigger a premises security system action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: The ADT Security Corporation
    Inventor: Neil Brown
  • Patent number: 12118794
    Abstract: According to some embodiments a system is provided. The system comprises a remote monitoring computing system that is configured to receive an alarm signal from a premises monitoring system that is configured to monitor a premises where the alarm signal is associated with an alarm event at the premises, in response to the alarm signal, obtain, from a content storage computing system, metadata corresponding to video provided by a camera at the premises, in response to the metadata, store the video in a data store of the remote monitoring computing system, and enforce an access control policy on the video in the data store where the access control policy restricts access to the video in the data store based on time and a plurality of roles of a plurality of users of the remote monitoring computing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: The ADT Security Corporation
    Inventors: Lawrence David Folsom, Thomas Nakatani, Susan Carie Small, Dmitry Vaynriber, Thomas Henry King, Mitchell Patrick Smith, Jason Adukuzhiyil George
  • Patent number: 12112610
    Abstract: A device is provided. The device includes processing circuitry configured to detect an audio signal associated with an alarm event, generate a spectrogram using a plurality of input samples of the audio signal where the spectrogram includes a plurality of spectral bins, select one of the plurality of spectral bins associated with a predefined frequency range, perform edge detection on the selected one of the plurality of spectral bins, perform pattern detection based on the edge detection, determine the audio signal corresponds to an audio alarm signal based on the pattern detection, and trigger an action in response to determining that the audio signal corresponds to an audio alarm signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: The ADT Security Corporation
    Inventor: Michael A. Arnao
  • Patent number: 12114031
    Abstract: A user interface device associated with a premises security system that is configured to monitor a premises using a plurality of premises devices is provided. The user interface device includes processing circuitry configured to receive a request to stream video from a premises device of the plurality of premises devices, select one of a plurality of media servers to use to stream the video from the premises device, initiate a streaming channel to the selected media server to initiate the video streaming process with the selected media server, and receive, from the selected media server, the video stream associated with the premises device for playback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: The ADT Security Corporation
    Inventors: Maurice Buttimer, James Beck
  • Patent number: 12112607
    Abstract: The present invention is a software as a service platform providing a system and method enabling interactive services between the end-users, emergency responders, and central monitoring stations. In an exemplary embodiment of the invention, the system provides an electronic notification of an alarm event to an end-user by way of a secure hyperlink to a web portal. The web portal provides a method enabling the end-user to interact with the central monitoring station and/or the emergency responders as well as view live and historical data from the alarm event including video. The system is configured to acquire historical video and data from the actual alarm triggering event from a variety of disparate sources including devices associated with life safety systems and lifestyle systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: The ADT Security Corporation
    Inventor: Lawrence D. Folsom
  • Patent number: D1059358
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: The ADT Security Corporation
    Inventors: Kevin Greenland, Abhijeet Bhattacharya, Paul Haupt