Patent ID: 8199894

Claim:
A system for changing a state of a security system that monitors a structure and a state of a call forwarding feature of a telephone system associated with the structure, comprising: a control panel associated with the security system having a plurality of stored telephone numbers to which calls are forwarded, the control panel operable to change the state of the security system in response to a user input entered into the control panel of the security system through an input device located on the control panel, the user input including any one of a plurality of authorization codes where the plurality of authorization codes includes a first authorization code that arms or disarms the security system and activates or deactivates the call forwarding system with regard to a first telephone number of the plurality of stored telephone numbers and a second authorization code that arms or disarms the security system and activates or deactivates the call forwarding system with regard to a second telephone number of the plurality of stored telephone numbers; and an authorization component, embodied as a non-transitory computer readable medium, operable to indicate whether a user has authority to change the state of the call forwarding feature of the telephone system, wherein when the state of the security system is changed, if the user has authority to change the state of the call forwarding feature of the telephone system via entry of one of the first and second authorization codes, the state of the call forwarding feature of the telephone system is changed with respect to one of the first and second telephone numbers responsive to the user input entered into the control panel of the security system.