Patent ID: 8330589

Claim:
A security system, comprising: a microphone that operates with a microprocessor to recognize a notification signal from at least one of a door bell sound, a wireless signal from a doorbell transmitter, and a wireless signal from 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, wherein a triggering signal is produced by the microprocessor when it recognizes the notification signal; a notification module that receives the triggering signal and that thereafter produces a recognition signal; a memory containing a plurality of dog barking sound recordings wherein the microprocessor cooperates with the memory to provide at least one of the dog barking sound recordings to a sound producing device after the microprocessor receives the recognition signal; and a delay module that causes a delay of at least one second such that the sound producing device produces a dog barking sound at least one second after the recognition of the door bell sound.