Method of sending a message through a phone system by turning on a computer

• US 5,793,840 A
• Filed: 08/30/1994
• Issued: 08/11/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 08/30/1994
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Min Zhuang, Zong-Pei Jin
• Original Assignee: Min Zhuang, Zong-Pei Jin
• Inventors: Zhuang, Min, Jin, Zong-Pei
• Primary Examiner(s): Chan, Jason
• Application Number:
  US08/297,966
• Time in Patent Office: 1,442 Days
• Field of Search: 379/37-51, 379/90, 379/93, 379/88, 379/104, 379/102, 379/106, 340/506, 340/825.06, 364/131, 364/141, 364/132, 364/188, 364/900, 364/200, 364/510, 364/184, 364/185, 364/138, 395/750, 395/186, 395/187.01, 395/188.01
• US Class Current: 379/47
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 11/04 with alarm systems, e.g. fire, police or burglar alarm systems

Abstract

A method of sending an alarm message through a phone system by turning on a computer having memory, an operating system, a computer program, and a modem. The method involves building the alarm message and sending it through the phone system by using the computer program. The computer'"'"'s electric power is triggered by a person, a security device, or any other device that can turn on a computer.

Claims

1. A method of sending a message through a communication system to a receiving device triggered by switching means for turning on a computer having a memory, software means for requesting a user to enter a password during a predetermined waiting period and sending said message by using said switching means as a trigger in the event that said password is incorrectly entered or said password has not been entered when said predetermined waiting period is over, and sending means having a modem with a wait-for-quiet-answer feature for transmitting said message, said method comprising the steps of:

(a) turning on said computer by said switching means executing said software means in said memory;

(b) requesting said user to enter said password during said predetermined waiting period by said software means; and

(c) in the event that said password is incorrectly entered or said password has not been entered when said predetermined waiting period is over, converting a predetermined numeric value by said software means into a dial string in a format for making a receiving person directly understand said predetermined numeric value; and

sending said message by dialing said dial string using said sending means having said modem with said wait-for-quiet-answer feature for generating signals of said predetermined numeric value as part of said message through said communication system to said receiving device by said software means using said switching means as said trigger, wherein said converting step further comprising the additional step of converting a digit into a string of `1`s with the string length equals said digit'"'"'s numeric value as part of said dial string to generate the sound signals in said receiving device having a telephone for making said receiving person understand the numeric value of said digit by counting the number of sound signals.

2. The method defined in claim 1, wherein said message is an alarm message.