Mobile telephone device

• US 20060166659A1
• Filed: 01/07/2003
• Published: 07/27/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 07/11/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Alvaro Bernardo Tafur Castillo, Antonie Hendrik Jacobus Wiese
• Original Assignee: Alvaro Bernardo Tafur Castillo, Antonie Hendrik Jacobus Wiese
• Inventors: Castillo, Alvaro Bernardo Tafur, Wiese, Antonie Hendrik Jacobus
• Application Number:
  US10/521,052
• Publication Number:
  US 20060166659A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/418
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/08 using communication transmission lines G08B13/19658, G08B21/0286, G08B25/016 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 11/04 with alarm systems, e.g. fire, police or burglar alarm systems

Abstract

The present invention relates to a mobile telephone device (30) including a single transceiver (33) for connecting the telephone device to a mobile telephone network and a controller (58) coupled to the transceiver, the controller operative to place the mobile telephone device in either a telephone condition thereby allowing a user to selectively connect to the mobile telephone network or in response to receiving an alarm signal, an alarm condition to connect the transceiver to the mobile telephone network and thereby notify a predetermined terminal of the receipt of the alarm signal.

Claims

18. A mobile telephone device including:

a single transceiver for connecting the telephone device to a mobile telephone; and

a controller coupled to the transceiver, the controller operative to place the mobile telephone device in at least one of;

a telephone condition thereby allowing a user to selectively connect to the mobile telephone network; and

in response to receiving an alarm signal, an alarm condition to connect the transceiver to the mobile telephone network,

the controller having a security subscriber identification module for use in connection to the mobile telephone network when the mobile telephone device is in the alarm condition and a user subscriber identification module for use in connection to the mobile telephone network when the mobile telephone device is in the telephone condition.

1. A mobile telephone device including:

a single transceiver for connecting the telephone device to a mobile telephone network; and

a controller coupled to the transceiver, the controller operative to place the mobile telephone device in at least one of;

a telephone condition thereby allowing a user to selectively connect to the mobile telephone network; and

in response to receiving an alarm signal, an alarm condition to connect the transceiver to the mobile telephone network and thereby notify a predetermined terminal of the receipt of the alarm signal.

2. A mobile telephone device according to claim 1 wherein the alarm signal is received in response to the detection of unauthorised activity in respect of a vehicle in which the mobile telephone device is installed.

3. A mobile telephone device according to claim 2 wherein a switch is arranged to place the mobile telephone device in the alarm condition in response to switching off of the vehicle and in the telephone condition in response to ignition of the vehicle.

4. A mobile telephone device according to claim 3 wherein the controller further includes means for diverting incoming communications received when the telephone device is in the alarm condition, to an answering service.

5. A mobile telephone device according to claim 2 wherein the mobile telephone device forms part of a mobile telephone for installation in the vehicle.

6. A mobile telephone according to claim 5 wherein the mobile telephone in the vehicle is substantially hidden from view.

7. A mobile telephone according to claim 5 further including a keypad that is operable between a hidden condition in which the keypad is hidden from view, and an operative position, in which the key pad is visible and is readily accessible to a driver of the vehicle.

8. A mobile telephone according to claim 5 further including a disconnectably connectable headset comprising a microphone-and-speaker system.

9. A mobile telephone according to claim 5 further including a speaker in the form of an ear-piece for location in an ear of a driver of the vehicle.

10. A mobile telephone according to claim 5 further including a dialup system for permitting a user to control the mobile telephone device by use of a mobile telephone handset, and to connect the handset to the mobile telephone network.

11. A mobile telephone according to claim 10 wherein the dial-up system includes a device for receiving audio signals from the handset, the audio signals being generated in response to the pressing of keys on a keypad of the handset, and for converting the audio signals to electronic command signals for the mobile telephone.

12. A mobile telephone according to claim 11 wherein the conversion of the audio signals is in accordance with standard protocols such as DTMF.

13. A mobile telephone according to claim 5 further including a cordless keypad for interfacing with the controller of the mobile telephone device via wireless communication signals, such as infra-red communication signals.

14. A mobile telephone device according to claim 1 wherein the transceiver includes means for providing a position signal indicative of the geographical position of the mobile telephone device.

15. A mobile telephone device according to claim 1 wherein the predetermined terminal is the user'"'"'s mobile telephone.

16. A mobile telephone device according to claim 1 wherein the notification of the alarm signal is by way of a text message.

17. A mobile telephone device according to claim 1 wherein the notification is a voice call.

19. A mobile telephone device according to claim 18 wherein the user subscriber identification module is one of a pair of subscriber identification modules both of which identify the same account with said account being a different account from that identified by the security subscriber identification module.

20. A mobile telephone device according to claim 19 wherein the user'"'"'s mobile telephone operates with a twin-call SIM-card identifying the same account as the user SIM-card in the mobile telephone device.

21. A mobile telephone device according to claim 18 wherein the security subscriber identification module and the user subscriber identification module are SIM-cards.

22. A mobile telephone device according to claim 18 wherein the alarm signal is received in response to the detection of unauthorised activity in respect of a vehicle in which the mobile telephone device is installed.

23. A mobile telephone device according to claim 22 further including a switch arranged to place the mobile telephone device in the alarm condition by connecting the transceiver to the security SIM-card in response to switching off of the vehicle and in the telephone condition by connecting the transceiver to the user SIM-card in response to ignition of the vehicle.

24. A mobile telephone device according to claim 18 wherein the controller sends an alarm message to a predetermined terminal in response to receiving the alarm signal.

25. A mobile telephone device according to claim 24 wherein the alarm message is a text message.

26. A mobile telephone device according to claim 24 wherein the alarm message is a voice call.

27. A mobile telephone device according to claim 18 wherein the transceiver includes means for providing a position signal indicative of the geographical position of the mobile telephone device.

28. A mobile telephone device according to claim 22 wherein the mobile telephone device forms part of a mobile telephone for installation in the vehicle.

29. A mobile telephone according to claim 28 wherein the mobile telephone in the vehicle is substantially hidden from view.

30. A mobile telephone according to claim 29 further including a keypad that is operable between a hidden condition in which the keypad is hidden from view, and an operative position, in which the key pad is visible and is readily accessible to a driver of the vehicle.

31. A mobile telephone according to claim 30 further including a disconnectably connectable headset comprising a microphone-and-speaker system.

32. A mobile telephone according to claim 31 further including a speaker in the form of an ear-piece for location in an ear of a driver of the vehicle.

33. A mobile telephone according to claim 32 further including a dial-up system for permitting a user to control the telephone control unit by use of a mobile telephone handset, and to connect the mobile telephone to the telephone network.

34. A mobile telephone according to claim 33 wherein the dial-up system includes a device for receiving audio signals from a mobile telephone handset, the audio signals being generated in response to the pressing of keys on a keypad of the mobile telephone handset, and for converting the audio signals to electronic command signals for the mobile telephone.

36. A mobile telephone according to claim 34 wherein the conversion of the audio signals is in accordance with standard protocols such as DTMF.

37. A monitoring application including a mobile telephone device according to claim 1 wherein the alarm signal is received by the mobile telephone device when a predetermined value of a performance variable relating a process located at a remote location is not met.

36-1. A mobile telephone according to claim 28 further including a cordless keypad for interfacing with the control unit of the mobile telephone via wireless communication signals, such as infra-red communication signals.

38. A security system for protection of an area, the system including:

an alarm arrangement for detecting unauthorised activity in respect of the protected area and for generating an alarm signal in response to detection of the unauthorised activity; and

a mobile telephone device connected to the alarm arrangement, the mobile telephone device being operable in an alarm condition to connect to a mobile telephone network and notify a predetermined terminal of the generation of the alarm signal and in a telephone condition to allow a user to connect to the mobile telephone network.