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US 9635323
Communication and monitoring system
Current assignee: EYETALK365 LLC
Added 9/23/2026, 10:18:27 PM
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Patent summary
Title, assignee, inventors, filing/issue dates, abstract, and a plain-language overview of the claims.
US9635323B2 — Communication and Monitoring System
Overview (based only on the supplied source text)
- Patent number: US9635323B2
- Title: Communication and monitoring system
- Inventor: Ronald Carter
- Current assignee (as listed): EYETALK365 LLC (original assignee also EYETALK365 LLC)
- Application number: US15/239,609
- Filing date: 2016-08-17
- Publication date: 2017-04-25 (application granted same day)
- Priority date (as listed; an assumption, not a legal conclusion): 2002-10-15
- Legal status (as listed): Expired – Lifetime; anticipated expiration 2023-10-09
- Prior art keywords listed: entrance, software application, detection, exterior device, display
- Classifications (selected): H04N7/18 (CCTV), H04N7/186 (video door telephones), H04M11/025 (door telephones), G07C9/00 (registration on entry/exit, electronic locks, identity checks by password)
- Related application: Priority claimed from US10/682,185 (patent/US7193644B2)
Purpose and plain-language scope. The classifications and prior-art keywords frame the disclosure around a video door-telephone / closed-circuit television system: an "exterior device" at an entrance, "detection" (e.g., detecting a visitor or entry event), a "display," and a "software application" used in the communication and monitoring arrangement. A priority claim reaching back to 2002 suggests the subject matter concerns entrance monitoring and two-way communication between an entrance location and a remote viewing/intercom device. Because the source excerpt supplies no abstract or claim text, the precise scope of the claims cannot be stated from this material alone.
What the excerpt does not establish. It does not establish the actual claims, claim limitations, specification content, or abstract; the precise components or steps recited; the identity or date of any prior art; validity, enforceability, or claim scope; ownership or licensing history (assignment and license entries are listed but are not analyzed here); or whether the 2002 priority date was ultimately sustained. The excerpt omits figures and most of the description and claims.
Source: https://patents.google.com/patent/[US9635323](/patent/US9635323)/en (fetched 2026-09-23).
Generated 10/1/2026, 9:33:36 PM
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