Patent ID: 7647245

Claim:
A security system-related marketing system, comprising: a retail environment receptive of walk-in traffic and adapted to market goods and services to consumers; a telephone, physically disposed in said retail environment, having a designated component deactivated and of a home security system operated by a remote security service provider, wherein said designated component, when activated, functions as a security panel of the home security system and relays communication between the remote security service provider and peripheral devices, of the home security system and installed at a home, including at least one of a siren, a glass-break detector, a fire detector, and a door sensor, wherein said telephone has a telecommunication functionality independent of interfacing with the home security system; at least one security system component package, physically disposed in said retail environment, granting rights to activate the designated component of the telephone and to receive security services including operating the home security system, provided by the remote security service provider, thereby permitting a purchaser to purchase, in said retail environment, one or more of said at least one security system component package and thereby obtain rights to at least one predetermined set of security system components that substantially provide the home security system; and security system monitoring services marketed in said retail environment to purchasers of said one or more of said at least one security system component package, thereby permitting the purchaser of said telephone and said one or more of said at least one security system component package to obtain rights to said security system monitoring services by purchasing said security system monitoring services in said retail environment, wherein said telephone is available for sale in said retail environment independently of purchase of said at least one security system component package.