Patents by Inventor Thomas C Bennett

Thomas C Bennett 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).

  • Alarm reporting system
    Patent number: 6781509
    Abstract: A method and apparatus reports alarm events detected by an alarm system having a plurality of users, each user having a name and identified by an identifier other than the name. The system detects an event of interest relating to a user, creates a data stream indicative of the event and indicative of the identifier of the user, extracts from the data stream the identifier of the user, determines the name of the user based upon the identifier of the user, selects a message recipient based upon the event of interest, creates a text message addressed to the selected message recipient, the text message communicating the name of the user and communicating information indicative of the event of interest, and transmits the text message via a global communications network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2004
    Assignee: Oppedahl & Larson LLP
    Inventors: Carl Oppedahl, Thomas C Bennett