Doorbell communities

Abstract

Doorbells can send data to each other to enable a first doorbell user to warn a second doorbell user regarding a suspicious visitor. A first user can indicate a first trait of a visitor via a first remote computing device. The first user can create a user group to enable the members of the user group to use their doorbells to take pictures of suspicious visitors and to send the pictures of the suspicious visitors to other members of the user group.

The following is claimed: 
     
         1 . A computer-readable, non-transitory, programmable product, comprising code, executable by a processor, for causing the processor to cause a first remote computing device to receive, over a first wireless network, a first visitor notification alert from a first doorbell and to cause the first remote computing device to send, over a second wireless network, the first visitor notification alert to a second remote computing device, communicatively coupled, to a second doorbell, over a third wireless network. 
     
     
         2 . The computer-readable, non-transitory, programmable product, comprising code executable by a processor, as recited in  claim 1 , for further causing the processor to cause the first remote computing device to send, to the first doorbell, over the first wireless network, a second visitor notification alert received, over the second wireless network, from the second remote computing device which the second remote computing device received, over the third wireless network, from the second doorbell. 
     
     
         3 . The computer-readable, non-transitory, programmable product, comprising code, executable by a processor, as recited in  claim 1 , wherein the first visitor notification alert comprises a first image provided in connection with the first doorbell. 
     
     
         4 . The computer-readable, non-transitory, programmable product, comprising code, executable by a processor, as recited in  claim 2 , wherein the second visitor notification alert comprises a second image provided in connection with the second doorbell. 
     
     
         5 . The computer-readable, non-transitory, programmable product, comprising code, executable by a processor, as recited in  claim 1 , wherein the first visitor notification alert includes a time of arrival of a first visitor at a first doorbell location. 
     
     
         6 . The computer-readable, non-transitory, programmable product as recited in  claim 4 , wherein the second visitor notification alert includes a time of arrival of a second visitor at a second doorbell location. 
     
     
         7 . The computer-readable, non-transitory, programmable product, comprising code, executable by a processor, as recited in  claim 6 , wherein the second visitor notification alert includes length of time at doorbell information of the second visitor at the second doorbell location. 
     
     
         8 . The computer-readable, non-transitory, programmable product, comprising code executable by a processor, as recited in  claim 3 , for further causing the processor to cause the first image to be sent to a database, via the second network, based on a trait of the first image. 
     
     
         9 . A computer-readable, non-transitory, programmable product, comprising code executable by a processor, for causing the processor to cause image and data information to be stored on a first database and to cause selected image and data information to be shared, over a wireless network, with a plurality of remote computing devices wherein each remote computing device from the plurality of remote computing devices is communicatively coupled through an associated network to an associated doorbell. 
     
     
         10 . The computer-readable, non-transitory, programmable product, comprising code executable by a processor, as recited in  claim 9 , for causing the processor to perform analytics on the image and data information stored on the first database. 
     
     
         11 . The computer-readable, non-transitory, programmable product, comprising code executable by a processor, as recited in  claim 10 , wherein the analytics include classification of the image and data information of the first database based on trends and/or abnormal behaviors. 
     
     
         12 . The computer-readable, non-transitory, programmable product, comprising code executable by a processor, as recited in  claim 11 , wherein the analytics consists of visit or visitor information to one or more locations; criminal history information associated with a visitor; comparison of database information on the first database with information stored on the second database; and combinations thereof. 
     
     
         13 . The computer-readable, non-transitory, programmable product, comprising code, executable by a processor, as recited in  claim 9 , for further causing the processor to cause unauthorized building intrusion alerts to be sent to the plurality of remote computing devices. 
     
     
         14 . The computer-readable, non-transitory, programmable product, comprising code, executable by a processor, as recited in  claim 11 , for further causing the processor to send an alert to the plurality of remote computing devices in response to abnormal behaviors determined through the analytics. 
     
     
         15 . The computer-readable, non-transitory, programmable product, comprising code, executable by a processor, as recited in  claim 9 , wherein the code causes the processor to share selected image and data information, over the wireless network, with only selected ones of the plurality of remote computing devices, as determined by one or more members of a user group defined by the plurality of remote computing devices. 
     
     
         16 . The computer-readable, non-transitory, programmable product, comprising code, executable by a processor, as recited in  claim 9 , wherein the image and data information includes visitor time of arrival, unauthorized building intrusion information and trait information. 
     
     
         17 . The computer-readable, non-transitory, programmable product, as recited in  claim 9  wherein data information includes contact information associated with the plurality of remote computing devices. 
     
     
         18 . The computer-readable, non-transitory, programmable product, as recited in  claim 17  wherein the contact information includes selected ones of name, phone number and e-mail address information. 
     
     
         19 . The computer-readable, non-transitory, programmable product, as recited in  claim 9  wherein the data information includes video and audio information. 
     
     
         20 . The computer-readable, non-transitory, programmable product, as recited in  claim 9  wherein the image and data information includes sensor information received at a plurality of doorbell locations.