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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 28, 2014
State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, Bloomington, IL (US);
Andrew Reeser, Heyworth, IL (US);
Shawn M. Call, Bloomington, IL (US);
Stacy L. Kennedy, Bloomington, IL (US);
Lee C. Drinan, Bloomington, IL (US);
Lisa Ann Frey, Normal, IL (US);
Kevin Payne, Lexington, IL (US);
Michael Jacob, Le Roy, IL (US);
STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY, Bloomington, IL (US);
Abstract
Techniques for facilitating one or more operating modes for monitoring of an intelligent home system are disclosed. The techniques facilitate detecting an adverse condition in a building, generating an alert based on the detection, sending a notification about the alert to a user (e.g., to a mobile device), awaiting a user response, and determining whether to send the alert to a central monitoring system to facilitate notification of an appropriate responder for the adverse condition. Determining whether to send the alert to the central monitoring system may be based on an affirmative command from the user or a failure to receive any command from the user. The user may be billed for the service of notifying an appropriate responder provided by central monitoring system regularly, intermittently when the user is away from the building, or on a per-alert basis.