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Cellphone based monitoring system and process

  • US 8,050,631 B2
  • Filed: 10/25/2010
  • Issued: 11/01/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/10/2003
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method of monitoring events associated with a first user comprising the steps of:

  • (a) enabling detection control options on a first cellphone, which reporting control options include;

    i. target event controls selectable by a user of said first cellphone for identifying target events to be detected for the first user; and

    ii. an option for enabling said target events to be detected for the first user during a specified monitoring period, which specified monitoring period begins at a first designated time and lasts for a first designated duration; and

    iii. identification data for at least one second user designated by the first user to receive reports on selected ones of said detected target events;

    (b) causing said first cellphone to communicate said target events for the first user during said specified period to an Internet server computing system;

    (c) processing said target events at said Internet server computing system to identify a selected event;

    (d) reporting on said selected event by generating an alert from the Internet server computing system communicated to a second cellphone of said at least one second user;

    wherein said detection control options permit the second user to receive alerts for said selected events over a first communications channel which is separate from a second communications channel used by the second cellphone to receive voice data signals.

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