METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECORDING EVENTS

• US 20080014947A1
• Filed: 06/17/2007
• Published: 01/17/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Murat Carnall
• Original Assignee: Murat Carnall
• Inventors: Carnall, Murat
• Granted Patent: US 9,037,136 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/437
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/22 responsive to presence or absence of persons
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/00 Network data management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/005 Discovery of network devices, e.g. terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/08 Mobility data transfer
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/20 Transfer of user or subscriber data
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/245 from a network towards a terminal

Abstract

A data collection method for collecting data describing at least one encounter of a mobile wireless device with at least one other wireless device, said method comprising: conducting a digital handshake between said mobile wireless device and said at least one other wireless device over a wireless link; and communicating a record of said encounter between said mobile wireless device and said other wireless device to a recording device.

Claims

1. A data collection method for collecting data describing at least one encounter of a mobile wireless device with at least one other wireless device, said method comprising:

conducting a digital handshake between said mobile wireless device and said at least one other wireless device over a wireless link; and

communicating a record of said encounter between said mobile wireless device and said other wireless device to a recording device.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said handshake occurs whenever said mobile wireless device is within a pre-determined range of said other wireless device.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said handshake protocol occurs whenever said mobile wireless device encounters said other wireless device for a pre-determined time period.

4. The method as claimed in claim 3, wherein said pre-determined time period is definable by an authorized operator of said mobile wireless device.

5. The method as claimed in claim 3, wherein said pre-determined time period is definable by an authorized operator of said other wireless device.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said digital handshake is conducted over a wireless link selected as one of the following types of wireless link:

a bluetooth wireless link;

a WI F wireless link operating at a band in the range 933 Mhz-1400 Mhz;

an IEEE 802.16 WiMax link;

an IEEE 892.20 Mobile Fi link;

an IEEE 802.1 link;

an IEEE 802.15 ZigBee link.

7. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said mobile device comprises a personal mobile telephone handset.

8. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said mobile device comprises a device selected from the set:

a personal digital assistant (PDA);

a portable laptop computer;

a portable note book computer;

a wearable computer.

9. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said at least one other wireless device comprises a user portable mobile wireless device.

10. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said digital hand shake comprises an exchange of wireless signals between said mobile device and said at least one other wireless device, in which a signal identifying one of said devices is received by the other said device.

11. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein a said digital hand shake comprises:

an exchange of signals between said mobile wireless device and said at least one other wireless device, in which each said device receives a signal from the other said device, said signal identifying said other device.

12. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said record of said encounter comprises:

data identifying said mobile wireless device; and

data identifying said at least one other wireless device.

13. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said record of said encounter comprises data including:

data describing a time and/or date on which said digital handshake occurred.

14. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said record of said encounter comprises includes data comprising:

data describing a location of said mobile wireless device at a time when said digital hand shake occurred.

15. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said record of said encounter comprises:

data describing a location of said at least one other wireless device at a time when said digital hand shake occurred.

16. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said record of said encounter includes a user specified data field which is assignable to contain a user specified data type.

17. The method according to claim 16, wherein user specified data type is selected from the set:

text message data;

ring tone data;

audio data;

image data;

data describing menu selections of a device;

data describing key stroke and/or key pad inputs to a device.

18. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said record of said encounter comprises a data field for containing data describing a recent history of communication sent or received by a said device

19. A method of collecting and recording data describing an encounter between a mobile wireless device and at least one other wireless device, said method comprising:

conducting a digital hand shake between said mobile device and said at least one other device over a wireless link when said mobile device and said at least one other wireless device are within a pre-determined range of each other; and

storing said record of said hand shake in a data storage device.

20. The method as claimed in claim 19, wherein said digital hand shake occurs whenever said mobile wireless device encounters said other wireless device for a pre-determined time period.

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