Granted Patent B2

US 12,374,211 · App. 17/951,685 · Granted Jul 29, 2025

Inventors: Nathan Whitaker (South Lake Tahoe, CA); Mike Roth (Webster Groves, MO); Zach Winkler (Dallas, TX); Joe Pritzel (Fort Worth, TX)

Assignee: Noonlight, Inc.

G08B25/006G08B21/02

Abstract

Claims (69)

1. A method comprising:

by an alarm processing system that a) comprises one or more computers and communicates with at least a responder system and a property system for a property using a network and b) that executes an alarm handling workflow to process data for alarm events:

receiving, from the property system and using the network, data identifying a potential alarm event at the property;

creating, in memory, an alarm event data record that includes first data for the potential alarm event and a case identifier;

determining, for the potential alarm event for the property and using sensor data for the potential alarm event, whether to process the potential alarm event using a default alarm handling workflow or an enhanced alarm handling workflow;

in response to determining to process the potential alarm event using the enhanced alarm handling workflow, modifying the default alarm handling workflow that has a plurality of operations to generate the enhanced alarm handling workflow that has one or more operations, the plurality of operations including at least one operation not included in the one or more operations;

after generating the enhanced handling alarm workflow, executing the enhanced alarm handling workflow to generate second data;

in response to determining to process the potential alarm event using the enhanced alarm handling workflow, updating the alarm event data record to include the second data for the enhanced alarm handling workflow; and

transmitting, to the responder system and using the network, third data for the potential alarm event including the case identifier to enable a device to access a user interface that depicts alarm data for the alarm event data record.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining whether to process the potential alarm event using the default alarm handling workflow or the enhanced alarm handling workflow comprises:

determining whether to process the potential alarm event using i) the default alarm handling workflow or ii) the enhanced alarm handling workflow that reduces a number of operations performed for the potential alarm event compared to the default alarm handling workflow, the method comprising:

in response to determining to process the potential alarm event using the enhanced alarm handling workflow, determining to skip one or more operations that would have been performed for the default alarm handling workflow.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining whether to process the potential alarm event using the default alarm handling workflow or the enhanced alarm handling workflow comprises:

analyzing, using one or more artificial intelligence models, the sensor data to determine a confidence score that the sensor data represents an actual alarm event;

determining whether the confidence score satisfies a confidence threshold; and

determining whether to process the potential alarm event using the default alarm handling workflow or the enhanced alarm handling workflow using a result of the determination whether the confidence score satisfies the confidence threshold.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein:

the one or more artificial intelligence models comprise at least one of a facial recognition model, an authentication module, a behavior pattern model, an emergency type model, or a device identification module; and

determining whether to process the potential alarm event using the default alarm handling workflow or the enhanced alarm handling workflow uses the result of the determination whether the confidence score that was generated using the at least one of the facial recognition model, the authentication module, the behavior pattern model, or the device identification module satisfies the confidence threshold.

5. The method of claim 3 , comprising:

after determining whether to process the potential alarm event using the default alarm handling workflow or the enhanced alarm handling workflow, receiving feedback indicating an accuracy of at least one model from the one or more artificial intelligence models; and

in response to receiving the feedback, training the at least one model from the one or more artificial intelligence models using the feedback indicating the accuracy.

6. The method of claim 1 , comprising:

detecting representations of one or more people in the sensor data for the potential alarm event; and

determining, for each of at least some of the one or more people in the sensor data, whether the respective person is likely authorized to be at the property, wherein:

updating the alarm event data record to include data for the enhanced alarm handling workflow comprises updating the alarm event data record to include data that indicates, for at least some of the one or more people, whether the person is likely authorized to be at the property.

7. The method of claim 6 , comprising:

providing, to the device, instructions to cause the device to present the user interface that depicts, for the at least some of the one or more people, information about the person and a label that indicates whether the person is likely authorized to be at the property.

8. The method of claim 6 , comprising:

providing, to the device, instructions to cause the device to present the user interface that depicts, for a person detected as being represented by the sensor data, an image determined to be a best match image of the person.

9. The method of claim 1 , comprising:

determining an emergency type for the potential alarm event;

updating the alarm event data record to include data for the emergency type for the potential alarm event; and

causing, using the updated alarm event data record, presentation of a second user interface that includes second data for the potential alarm event including the emergency type.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein modifying the default alarm handling workflow comprising:

selecting, from the plurality of operations for the default alarm handling workflow that includes one or more first operations and one or more second operations, the one or more second operations to skip; and

generating the enhanced alarm handling workflow that includes the one or more first operations and does not include the one or more second operations.

11. A system comprising one or more computers and one or more storage devices on which are stored instructions that are operable, when executed by the one or more computers, to cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:

receiving, from a property system for a property and using a network, data identifying a potential alarm event at the property;

creating, in memory, an alarm event data record that includes first data for the potential alarm event and a case identifier;

determining, for the potential alarm event for the property and using sensor data for the potential alarm event, whether to process the potential alarm event using a default alarm handling workflow or an enhanced alarm handling workflow;

in response to determining to process the potential alarm event using the enhanced alarm handling workflow, detecting representations of one or more people in the sensor data for the potential alarm event;

determining, for each of at least some of the one or more people in the sensor data, whether the respective person is likely authorized to be at the property;

updating the alarm event data record a) that includes the first data for the potential alarm event and the case identifier b) to include second data for the enhanced alarm handling workflow including data that indicates, for at least some of the one or more people, whether the person is likely authorized to be at the property; and

transmitting, to a responder system and using the network, third data for the potential alarm event including the case identifier to enable a device to access a user interface that depicts alarm data for the alarm event data record.

12. The system of claim 11 , wherein determining whether to process the potential alarm event using the default alarm handling workflow or the enhanced alarm handling workflow comprises:

determining whether to process the potential alarm event using i) the default alarm handling workflow or ii) the enhanced alarm handling workflow that reduces a number of operations performed for the potential alarm event compared to the default alarm handling workflow, the operations comprising:

in response to determining to process the potential alarm event using the enhanced alarm handling workflow, determining to skip one or more operations that would have been performed for the default alarm handling workflow.

13. The system of claim 11 , the operations comprising:

providing, to the device, instructions to cause the device to present the user interface that depicts, for the at least some of the one or more people, information about the person and a label that indicates whether the person is likely authorized to be at the property.

14. The system of claim 11 , the operations comprising:

providing, to the device, instructions to cause the device to present the user interface that depicts, for a person detected as being represented by the sensor data, an image determined to be a best match image of the person.

15. The system of claim 11 , the operations comprising:

determining an emergency type for the potential alarm event;

updating the alarm event data record to include data for the emergency type for the potential alarm event; and

causing, using the updated alarm event data record, presentation of a second user interface that includes second data for the potential alarm event including the emergency type.

16. One or more non-transitory computer storage media encoded with instructions that, when executed by one or more computers, cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:

receiving, from a property system for a property and using a network, data identifying a potential alarm event at the property;

creating, in memory, an alarm event data record that includes first data for the potential alarm event and a case identifier;

determining, for the potential alarm event for the property and using sensor data for the potential alarm event, whether to process the potential alarm event using a default alarm handling workflow or an enhanced alarm handling workflow;

in response to determining to process the potential alarm event using the enhanced alarm handling workflow, detecting representations of one or more people in the sensor data for the potential alarm event;

determining, for each of at least some of the one or more people in the sensor data, whether the respective person is likely authorized to be at the property;

updating the alarm event data record a) that includes the first data for the potential alarm event and the case identifier b) to include second data for the enhanced alarm handling workflow including data that indicates, for at least some of the one or more people, whether the person is likely authorized to be at the property; and

transmitting, to a responder system and using the network, third data for the potential alarm event including the case identifier to enable a device to access a user interface that depicts alarm data for the alarm event data record.

17. The computer storage media of claim 16 , wherein determining whether to process the potential alarm event using the default alarm handling workflow or the enhanced alarm handling workflow comprises:

determining whether to process the potential alarm event using i) the default alarm handling workflow or ii) the enhanced alarm handling workflow that reduces a number of operations performed for the potential alarm event compared to the default alarm handling workflow, the operations comprising:

in response to determining to process the potential alarm event using the enhanced alarm handling workflow, determining to skip one or more operations that would have been performed for the default alarm handling workflow.

18. The computer storage media of claim 16 , the operations comprising:

generating the enhanced alarm handling workflow by modifying a first order of a plurality of operations for the default alarm handling workflow to have a second order, the second order including at least a first operation performed before a second operation, the first order including the second operation performed before the first operation.

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