US 11,755,750 B2
Device lockdown
Travis Brandon Porter, Aurora, CO (US)
Assigned to Alarm.com Incorporated, Tysons, VA (US)
Filed by Alarm.com Incorporated, Tysons, VA (US)
Filed on Sep. 30, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/37,888.
Application 17/037,888 is a continuation of application No. 15/922,835, filed on Mar. 15, 2018, granted, now 10,824,741.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/471,897, filed on Mar. 15, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2021/0012018 A1, Jan. 14, 2021
Int. Cl. G06F 21/60 (2013.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01); G08B 13/00 (2006.01); G06F 21/31 (2013.01); G06F 21/35 (2013.01); H04W 4/029 (2018.01)
CPC G06F 21/604 (2013.01) [G06F 21/313 (2013.01); G06F 21/6218 (2013.01); G08B 13/00 (2013.01); G06F 21/35 (2013.01); H04W 4/029 (2018.02)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
obtaining sensor data from one or more sensors installed at a property;
based on analyzing the sensor data, determining that an event is occurring at the property;
in response to determining that the event is occurring at the property, providing an instruction to each of one or more devices that are likely located at the property to initiate device data protection operations, wherein the instruction causes each device to display a prompt that asks if the device data protection operations should be canceled;
determining, for each of the one or more devices, whether user feedback responsive to the prompt has been received from a user of the device within a predetermined amount of time; and
in response to determining, for a particular device of the one or more devices, that the predetermined amount of time has expired without receiving user feedback responsive to the prompt, performing one or more data protection operations to protect device data of the particular device.