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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 2004
Filed:
Nov. 13, 2000
Carl Oppedahl, Kenai Peninsula Parish, AK (US);
Thomas C Bennett, Summit County, CO (US);
Oppedahl & Larson LLP, Dillon, CO (US);
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.