Patent ID: 8058976

Claim:
A security system comprising: a portable transmitter sized for carriage in a clothes pocket of a person wherein the person manipulates the portable transmitter to thereby cause the portable transmitter to emit an emergency transmission signal; a warning notification module that produces a recognition signal after receiving and recognizing the emergency transmission signal; a memory containing a plurality of dog barking sound recordings; a microprocessor that retrieves a dog barking sound recording from the memory and provides the dog barking sound recording to at least one of an amplifier or radio frequency transmitter after the microprocessor receives the recognition signal; and a random module, wherein the random module cooperates with the microprocessor to randomly select which of the dog barking sound recordings the microprocessor retrieves from the memory; a microphone, wherein a doorbell sound is produced when a doorbell is actuated, wherein the microphone senses the doorbell sound and wherein the microphone operates with the microprocessor and the memory to produce the recognition signal upon recognizing the door bell sound; and a delay module that causes a time delay between sensing the door bell sounds and providing the dog barking sound recordings.