Patent ID: 9218729
Filing Date: 2015-12-22
Classification: G06F,G07C,G08B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: a security system monitoring a plurality of sensors including at least a first switch attached to a door providing entrance into and egress from a secured area and upon detecting an event saving a summary of the event into an event file; the security system tracking and storing a record of actions taken by a human operator in response to each event in an event file; an activity analysis processor monitoring the activities of the security system via the event files and evaluating the system's and operator's activities within a security system database based upon deviations, trends, patterns and criticalities of each respective activity; the activity analysis processor detecting an event within the monitored activities and saving a summary of the event to a cloud server or private data server, the summary including one or more of video, image, text, audio, charts, graphs and links to other applications relating to protection of the secured area, the link to other applications based upon the human operator at least clicking on an image of a camera and opening a configuration page of the camera, checking recording parameters of the camera based upon a percentage of total recording space consumed by the camera during a previous week or rechecking a resolution based upon a frames per second, GOP or bitrate setting of the camera; a user interface of the cloud server or private data server detecting a request from a user for a report of activities reported within a real time timeline window, the activity report including at least a content of the summary of the event associated with the secured area, the activity report further containing one or more of data, actions, warnings, help requests and recommendations generated by the activity analysis processor, wherein each of the data, actions, warnings, help requests and recommendations include one or more of video, image text, audio, charts and graphs, wherein the cloud server updates an internal database of the cloud server in real time based upon posts from the activity analysis processor or operator; the cloud server or private data server downloading the activity report to the user, the activity report displayed to the user including playback features controlling playback of the summary, the playback features further including provision to accept requests for additional data from the user and the playback features downloading and displaying the additional data in response to the requests, wherein the playback controls include at least one of a play control that displays activities in sequence for a selected time, pause, fast forward, step forward, step reverse and jump; generating a list and identifiers of alarms occurring within the timeline window for inclusion in the report; and including an identifier of the human operator that responded to each of the alarms of the list in the report.