Patents by Inventor Deepak Sundar MEGANATHAN

Deepak Sundar MEGANATHAN 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: 20190379648
    Abstract: Systems and methods for reducing cyber security incidents in video surveillance and security systems with intelligent password management are provided. Some methods can include assessing a vulnerability of a current password for each of a plurality of cameras, responsive to detecting that the current password for at least one of the plurality of cameras is vulnerable, automatically generating an updated password for the at least one of the plurality of cameras, and assigning the updated password to the at least one of the plurality of cameras.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Inventors: Avijit Saha, Manu Thomas, Jitendra Sitaram Chaurasia, Deepak Sundar Meganathan
  • Patent number: 10404672
    Abstract: Systems and methods for reducing cyber security incidents in video surveillance and security systems with intelligent password management are provided. Some methods can include assessing a vulnerability of a current password for each of a plurality of cameras, responsive to detecting that the current password for at least one of the plurality of cameras is vulnerable, automatically generating an updated password for the at least one of the plurality of cameras, and assigning the updated password to the at least one of the plurality of cameras.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Avijit Saha, Manu Thomas, Jitendra Sitaram Chaurasia, Deepak Sundar Meganathan
  • Publication number: 20190196526
    Abstract: A system for controlling energy consumption. The system may incorporate devices configured on a floor map, a monitor that detects energy consumption by each device, a heat map shown on the floor map, a processor, and a user interface having a display connected to the processor. The heat map may indicate energy consumption in various areas of the floor plan. The floor map with the heat map may be a screen on the display. The energy consumption by each of the devices from the monitor may be calculated by the processor in time that each device is active and in a power rating of the respective device. The energy consumption by each of the devices may be converted by the processor into cost. From a screen, a user may define a virtual and dynamic zone to optimize and control the energy consumption.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Deepak Sundar Meganathan, Soumen Ghosh
  • Publication number: 20190196424
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating a zone configuration and associated cause and effect logic files for a security system, a fire alarm system, or a home automation system are provided. Such systems and methods may include automatically using structural details of a building and a respective placement of each of the plurality of devices as identified in a site map file to generate a zone configuration subdividing into a plurality of zones a layout of the building documented in the site map file and generating a respective cause and effect logic file for each of the plurality of zones based on, respective specifications for each of the plurality of devices and the respective placement of each of the plurality of devices with respect to to each of the plurality of zones.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Deepak Sundar Meganathan, Sriramakrishnan S, Venugopala Reddy Janga
  • Patent number: 10310704
    Abstract: An apparatus including a plurality of user controlled devices, each located at a respective predetermined location within a geographic area of a user, a respective location indicator associated with each of the plurality of user controlled devices, a portable user device including a respective controlling application of each of the plurality of user controlled devices embodied in a memory of the portable user device, a monitoring processor of the portable user device that detects a location of the portable user device within the geographic area based upon a wireless signal from one of the respective location indicators and an interface processor of the portable device that loads the controlling application of one of the plurality of user controlled devices based upon the detected location of the portable user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: ADEMCO INC.
    Inventors: Deepak Sundar Meganathan, Ravikumar Vemagal Aswath
  • Patent number: 10311689
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for protecting a bypassed zone in a security system or a connected home system. Some methods can include providing a portable sensor package device proximate to an open device in the bypassed zone of a monitored region, the portable sensor package device detecting motion in a coverage area of the portable sensor package device and a direction of the motion, the portable sensor package device refraining from triggering an alarm when the direction of the motion is from inside of the monitored region to outside of the monitored region, and the portable sensor package device triggering the alarm when the direction of the motion is from outside of the monitored region to inside of the monitored region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: ADEMCO INC.
    Inventors: Deepak Sundar Meganathan, Hemanth Padikkal Veettil, Shaiju Janardhanan
  • Patent number: 10306403
    Abstract: A dynamic integrated security system having a user interface with a display connected to the processor. A plurality of security devices may be situated in a geographical area. A security perimeter may be placed around a high profile entity initiated by a threat level having a predetermined magnitude. The security perimeter may be a geo-fence that encompasses a geo area around the high profile entity. The geo area may encompass one or more security devices. The one or more security devices in the geo area may be connected to the processor. The geo area may move and stay with the high profile entity upon a change of geographic position of the high profile entity. The one or more security devices within the geo area may be monitored and controlled for reducing or preventing effects of the threat level against the high profile entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventor: Deepak Sundar Meganathan
  • Publication number: 20190104161
    Abstract: Systems and methods for directly accessing video data streams and data between devices in a video surveillance system can include a first camera of a mobile device capturing an image of a field of view of a video data stream displayed on a second device, the mobile device matching the field of view with a source of the video data stream, and responsive to matching the field of view with the source, the mobile device retrieving the video data stream directly from the source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Inventors: Deepak Sundar Meganathan, Avijit Saha, Venugopala Reddy Janga
  • Patent number: 10248146
    Abstract: A system and approach for monitoring and controlling energy consumption. The system may incorporate one or more devices configured on a floor map, a monitor that detects energy consumption by each of the one or more devices, a heat map shown on the floor map, a processor, and a user interface having a display connected to the processor. The heat map may indicate energy consumption in various areas of the floor plan. The floor map with the heat map may be a screen showable on the display. The energy consumption by each of the one or more devices from the monitor may be calculated by the processor in terms of time that each device is active and in terms of a power rating of the respective device. The energy consumption by each of the one or more devices may be converted by the processor into cost. From a screen, a user may define a virtual and dynamic zone to optimize and control the energy consumption with duration to apply the changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Deepak Sundar Meganathan, Soumen Ghosh
  • Patent number: 10176683
    Abstract: A system including a video sequence embodied in memory, a processor that detects a moving object or person within a field of view of the video sequence, a processor that tracks the moving object or person and that identifies a plurality of frames that summarizes movement of the moving object or person within a time interval of the video sequence and a processor that combines the identified plurality of frames into a thumbnail image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Deepak Sundar Meganathan, Shankar Prasad H. M.
  • Publication number: 20180374318
    Abstract: Systems and methods for monitoring opening and closing of a shutter door of an automatic teller machine (ATM) are provided that include a door sensor detecting the opening and the closing of the shutter door, a central monitoring station (CMS) storing an opening and closing schedule for the ATM and remotely receiving information related to the opening and the closing of the shutter door from the door sensor, and raising an alert at the CMS when the information indicates that the shutter door is opened or closed outside of a scheduled time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Inventors: Ruban Sanjeevi, Deepak Sundar Meganathan
  • Publication number: 20180364662
    Abstract: A privacy protection method and system (10) is provided for a building, home, apartment, or other area (12) protected by a connected security system (14). The system (10) includes a detector drone (16) and the security system (14). The drone (16) includes at least one drone detecting sensor (24) and automatically initiates a wireless signal (30) in response to the sensor (24) indicating the presence of a foreign drone (17). The security system (14) includes a central processor (40) and at least one electronic device (46) having a privacy condition wherein the device (46) protects against privacy intrusions by a foreign drone (17) and a non-privacy condition wherein the device (46) does not protect from the privacy intrusion. The processor (40) is configured to command the device (46) to change from the non-privacy condition to the privacy condition in response to the wireless signal (30) from the detector drone (16).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2017
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Inventors: Deepak Sundar Meganathan, Sreevas Raghavan
  • Patent number: 10116905
    Abstract: A method and system that includes a processor of a surveillance system detecting identification of a portion of a secured area via a drawing made by an operator on a graphical representation of the secured area, the processor identifying at least one camera within the identified portion of the secured area, the processor increasing a relative level of picture quality for each of the at least one camera and the processor recording video with the increased level of picture quality from each of the identified at least one camera for a predetermined time period where the picture quality is increased by performing one or more of increasing image resolution, increasing frames per second, decreasing a group of pictures (GOP) value, decreasing a compression ratio and increasing a bit rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Deepak Sundar Meganathan, Vivek Gopinath
  • Publication number: 20180284974
    Abstract: An electronic processor-implemented method (10) is provided for virtually recreating time-based events associated with a building (12) using a building monitoring system (13) having a plurality of monitored electronic devices (16). The method (10) includes storing time-stamped event data (18) for events associated with each monitored electronic device (16) in an electronic memory (20), and storing a visual representation (22) of the building (12) in the electronic memory (20). In response to signals (28) from a user input device (30) indicating a selected portion (24) of the building (12) and a selected timestamp, the method (10) accesses the visual representation (22) and the time-stamped event data (18) and provides a time-based, virtual recreation of the events associated with each device (16) in the selected portion (24) over the selected timestamp.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventors: Deepak Sundar Meganathan, Vinay Hegde
  • Publication number: 20180278835
    Abstract: Systems and methods for enabling dynamic privacy zones in a field of view of a security camera based on motion detection are provided. Some methods can include a security camera having a field of view monitoring a region, the security camera detecting a first predetermined gesture made by a user within the field of view of the security camera, and, responsive thereto, enabling a dynamic privacy zone within the field of view of the security camera for a predetermined period of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2017
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventor: Deepak Sundar Meganathan
  • Publication number: 20180278593
    Abstract: Systems and methods for reducing cyber security incidents in video surveillance and security systems with intelligent password management are provided. Some methods can include assessing a vulnerability of a current password for each of a plurality of cameras, responsive to detecting that the current password for at least one of the plurality of cameras is vulnerable, automatically generating an updated password for the at least one of the plurality of cameras, and assigning the updated password to the at least one of the plurality of cameras.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Avijit Saha, Manu Thomas, Jitendra Sitaram Chaurasia, Deepak Sundar Meganathan
  • Patent number: 10083584
    Abstract: A system including a plurality of cameras of a surveillance system that detect threats within a secured geographic area, a first file embodied in memory that defines a plurality of human use scenarios of the secured area, one of the plurality of human user scenarios being selected by a human user, a respective second file corresponding to each of the plurality of human user scenarios embodied in memory that defines critical surveillance areas of the secured area based upon the selected scenario and at least upon a time of day, the second file receiving from the user an identifier of one or more of the plurality of cameras that correspond to each of the critical surveillance areas and processor of the surveillance system that preferentially displays video from each of the critical surveillance areas based upon the time of day and camera identifiers received from the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Deepak Sundar Meganathan, Sivasanthanam Dhayalan, Damodharan Mohanam
  • Patent number: 10074226
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing UAV-based digital escort drones in visitor management and access control systems are provided. A visitor management and access control system can identify a need for escorting a visitor through a region and transmit a signal to a drone that identifies a starting location and a destination location in the region. Responsive to receiving the signal, the drone can escort the visitor along a path from the starting location to the destination location, and an access privilege device carried by the drone can open a secured door or access a secured area along the path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventor: Deepak Sundar Meganathan
  • Patent number: 10057715
    Abstract: Systems and methods for selecting an optimal device in a home security or automation system for presenting a notification or an alert are provided. Some methods can include identifying notification capabilities of a plurality of system devices installed in a region, detecting an occurrence of an event, identifying a location of a user within the region, and identifying at least one of the plurality of system devices that includes one of the notification capabilities for presenting the notification of the occurrence of the event and that is within a predetermined distance of the location of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Deepak Sundar Meganathan, Shankar Prasad H M
  • Publication number: 20180160260
    Abstract: A dynamic integrated security system having a user interface with a display connected to the processor. A plurality of security devices may be situated in a geographical area. A security perimeter may be placed around a high profile entity initiated by a threat level having a predetermined magnitude. The security perimeter may be a geo-fence that encompasses a geo area around the high profile entity. The geo area may encompass one or more security devices. The one or more security devices in the geo area may be connected to the processor. The geo area may move and stay with the high profile entity upon a change of geographic position of the high profile entity. The one or more security devices within the geo area may be monitored and controlled for reducing or preventing effects of the threat level against the high profile entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2016
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Inventor: Deepak Sundar Meganathan