Patent ID: 8035526

Claim:
A system for providing assisted-living messages with varying levels of detail to a person according to proximity gradients, the system comprising: a storage device to store location data that identifies multiple locations associated with respective notification devices at the dwelling of a person, the location data to associate a first notification device with a first location at the dwelling, and the location data to associate a second notification device with a second location at the dwelling; a remote configuration module that enables a caregiver at a location other than the dwelling to provide user input (a) to specify multiple messages to be presented to the person at the dwelling, (b) to assign first and second messages among the multiple messages to the first location, (c) to associate the first message with a first proximity for the first location; and (d) to associate the second message with a second proximity for the first location; and a device configuration module to cause the first notification device (a) to automatically present the first message in response to detecting a person within the first proximity to the first notification device and (b) to automatically present the second message in response to detecting a person within the second proximity to the first notification device.