Patent ID: 8144183

Claim:
A method for two-way audio-video communications between a first person at an entrance and a second person, comprising the steps of: (a) detecting the presence of a first person at the entrance; and (b) following detection of the presence of the first person at the entrance, providing real time audio-video communications between the first person at the entrance and a second person using a wireless handheld device by, (i) transmitting, to the wireless handheld device of the second person, video of the first person at the entrance recorded using a camera located proximate the entrance, (ii) transmitting, to the wireless handheld device of the second person, audio of the first person at the entrance recorded using a microphone located proximate the entrance, and (iii) transmitting, to a speaker located proximate the entrance for playing to the first person at the entrance, audio of the second person recorded using the wireless handheld device.