US Patent Issued to SimpliSafe on Aug. 25 for "Context-based SMS messaging for security system" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,290, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to SimpliSafe Inc. (Boston).

"Context-based SMS messaging for security system" was invented by Molly Nugiel (Somerville, Mass.), Matthew Hosking (Boston) and Samuel Hutchinson (Waltham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system may cause transmission of a short message service (SMS) message to an endpoint device, the SMS message being indicative of a signal for an alarm condition present at a monitored location. The computing system may determine that a reply to the SMS message from the endpoint device includes a command to take an action with respect to the alarm condition. The comp...