Patent ID: 7772971

Claim:
A method of alarm data communication, comprising the steps of: protecting a premise with a premise-sited automatic alarm controller, providing a remote central station with receiving equipment for receiving data communications from a plurality of alarm data communicators including said premise-sited automatic alarm controller, providing the premise-sited automatic alarm controller with a network of premise-sited alarm sensors which report premise-related exceptions not to the central station but to said premise-sited automatic alarm controller, providing one or more communications links between the premise-sited alarm controller and the remote central station's receiving equipment, when an exception occurs with any sensor, said sensor reporting the exception to the automatic alarm controller, in response, the automatic alarm controller sending an exception message to the remote central station's receiving equipment, in case of a user on the premise, then providing the user a way to verify the exception with the remote central station, comprising: providing the premise-sited automatic alarm controller with a user interface for entry of a verify option, the user interacting with user interface to enter the verify option, in response, the automatic alarm controller automatically sending a verify signal to the remote central station's receiving equipment, whereby the user initiates the verify signal at the premise-sited automatic alarm controller's user interface, which verify signal then travels from the premise-sited automatic alarm controller and into the central station via the receiving equipment thereof.