Patent ID: 7639128

Claim:
A method of operating a security system, said method comprising the steps of: activating a security device; transmitting a first status report from said device in response to said activating step, the first status report automatically being indicative of an input of said security device being in at least one of an alarm condition and a trouble condition; transmitting a second status report from said device after the first status report has been transmitted, the second status report being indicative of an actual status of the input of said security device; determining whether the second status report indicates an absence of both said alarm condition and said trouble condition of said input of said security device; transmitting a third status report from said device after the second status report has been transmitted, the third status report being indicative of the input of said security device actually being in at least one of said alarm condition and said trouble condition; and issuing at least one of an alarm and a trouble warning in response to the third status report only if it was determined that the second status report indicated an absence of both an alarm condition and a trouble condition of said input of said security device.