Method for the remote control of a venue, particularly a sales venue

• US 20060223488A1
• Filed: 12/06/2004
• Published: 10/05/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 12/08/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: In-Touch Marketing Company En Abrege Itmc
• Original Assignee: In-Touch Marketing Company
• Inventors: Rambaud, Philippe
• Application Number:
  US10/563,186
• Publication Number:
  US 20060223488A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/403
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19621 Portable camera
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19658 Telephone systems used to communicate with a camera, e.g. PSTN, GSM, POTS
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19673 Addition of time stamp, i.e. time metadata, to video stream

Abstract

In a remote monitoring process of a location, notably a sales location, of a type according to which images representing a part of the location are sent remotely to be centralized in a central monitoring device, the images are sent by means of a digital photographic device integrated into an MMS telephone and the digital images are transmitted at least partially via an electronic messaging network.

Claims

1. A process for remote monitoring of a location comprising:

transmitting, from a digital photographic device integrated with a mobile multimedia messaging services telephone, to an electronic address corresponding to a central monitoring device, an image that represents a part of a location from which said image is transmitted.

2. The process according to claim 1, further comprising:

comparing said image to a standard, after said image is received at said central monitoring device, and

triggering a telephone call to a device at said location, if said image does not conform to said standard.

3. The process according to claim 1, further comprising taking photographs of said location, and performing said transmitting for said photographs, at periodic intervals.

4. The process according to claim 1, wherein said location is one of a plurality of locations are monitored by said central monitoring device.

6. The process of claim 1, wherein said location is a sales location.

5. A device for remote monitoring of a location, comprising a digital photographic device incorporated in a portable multimedia messaging services telephone that records and transmits images representing a part of said location to an electronic address corresponding to a central monitoring device.

7. The device of claim 5, wherein said location is a sales location.

8. A process for remote monitoring of a location, comprising:

receiving, at an electronic address, an image transmitted from a digital photographic device integrated with a mobile multimedia messaging services telephone, wherein said image represents a part of a location from which said image is transmitted;

comparing said image to a standard; and

triggering a transmission of a message to a device at said location, if said image does not conform to said standard.

9. The process of claim 8, wherein said receiving, comparing and triggering are performed for images transmitted from said digital photographic device at periodic intervals.

10. The process of claim 8,

wherein said location is one of a plurality of locations, and

wherein said receiving, comparing and triggering are performed for images from said plurality of locations.

11. The process of claim 8, wherein said location is a sales location.