Patent ID: 6452490
Filing Date: 2002-09-17
Classification: G08B,Y10S

Abstract:
A method of alerting an alarm monitoring station of an alarmable condition, said alarm for response to said alerting, comprising the steps of:detecting said alarmable condition at a customer's premises; sending a message representing said alarmable condition over a telephone line to an end office switch serving said customer premises equipment alarmable conditions; in said end office switch, analyzing said message to generate at least one packet of data describing the alarm event for transmission to an alarm monitoring system; and transmitting said at least one packet over a reserved transmission facility used for transmitting packets describing a plurality of concurrent alarm events from said end office switch to said alarm monitoring station; wherein the step of analyzing further comprises the step of analyzing a plurality of concurrent messages from a plurality of customer premises equipments for transmission to said alarm monitoring station over said transmission facility; wherein no individual trunk connection to said alarm monitoring station is required for each new detected alarmable condition.