Method and system for interactive home monitoring

摘要

A method and system for interactive home monitoring includes detecting a visitor arriving at a premises of a multimedia content distribution network (MCDN) client by an intercom unit installed at the premises. The intercom unit may be coupled to the MCDN client, which may be configured to wirelessly communicate with a user of the MCDN client. A captured image of the visitor may be used to determine if an identity of the visitor is known or unknown. Based on the identity, a communication channel between the visitor and the user may be established at the intercom unit. The intercom unit may further be configured to provide further information to the visitor based on the visitor identity.

主权项

1. A home monitoring method, comprising:
responsive to receiving multimedia content corresponding to scheduled programming from an access network via a network adapter, processing the multimedia content to generate a native format audio signal and a native format video signal; responsive to receiving an image and audio of a visitor from an intercom unit via a wireless telemetry interface, determining, based on the image received, a visitor status selected from:
known; andunknown; responsive to determining that the visitor status is known, retrieving a visitor profile for the visitor from a stored collection of visitor profiles; responsive to determining that the visitor status is unknown, adding, to the collection of visitor profiles, a new visitor profile including the image and audio received and the visitor status; generating, based on the visitor profile, a visitor prompt appropriate for the visitor status, wherein the visitor prompt indicates an identity of the visitor when the visitor status is known; and establishing a communication connection between a network user and the visitor via the wireless telemetry interface.