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US 9414030
Communication and monitoring system
Current assignee: Sb Ip Holdings LLC
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Patent summary
Title, assignee, inventors, filing/issue dates, abstract, and a plain-language overview of the claims.
Patent Overview — US 9,414,030 B2
Title: Communication and monitoring system
Source: https://patents.google.com/patent/US9414030/en
Bibliographic data (as supplied):
- Publication number: US9414030B2
- Application number: US14/968,491
- Inventor: Ronald Carter
- Original assignee: EYETALK365 LLC; current assignee listed as SB IP Holdings LLC
- Priority date (stated as an assumption): 2002-10-15
- Filing date: 2015-12-14
- Publication date: 2016-08-09
- Legal status: Expired – Lifetime; anticipated expiration 2023-10-09
- Other version: US20160105650A1
Purpose and plain-language scope. Based only on the supplied text, the patent is classified as a closed-circuit television (CCTV) system for receiving images from a single remote source, and, more specifically, as a "video door telephone" (H04N7/186), with additional classifications directed to electronically operated locks and entry registration, including identity checks and use of personal physical data such as fingerprints, retinal images, and voice patterns (G07C9/00 series). The prior-art keywords supplied are: entrance, peripheral device, exterior, wireless, person. Taken together, these classifications describe a communication and monitoring system associated with an entrance, in which an exterior/peripheral device communicates wirelessly and captures information about a person at the entrance, potentially interacting with electronic lock or entry-control functions.
What the excerpt does not establish. The supplied text contains no abstract, no claims, and no written description. It therefore does not establish the actual claimed subject matter, the specific components, the wireless protocols used, the identity-verification techniques, or how the system interacts with any lock. The feature-level statements above are inferred only from classification labels and prior-art keywords, not from claim language. Priority date, assignee listings, and legal status are expressly described in the source as assumptions or non-authoritative, and this overview repeats them without verification.
Note: Consistent with the instructions, litigation, ownership transfers, validity, and prior art were not researched; litigation links and reassignment entries merely appear in the supplied source text.
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