Transceiver based monitoring system & process
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1. A wireless communications monitoring system comprising:
- (a) a setup routine adapted to configure and enable a monitor mode for a mobile wireless transceiver;
wherein said monitor mode is enabled to detect activity within an area to be monitored by said mobile wireless transceiver;
(b) a detection routine executing on an Internet based server adapted to detect monitoring data signals transmitted by said mobile wireless transceiver when said monitor mode is enabled;
(c) a threshold routine adapted to set monitor mode control options, which options include a user selectable threshold required for an alert to be triggered in connection with said monitoring data signals;
wherein said monitor mode control options permit a user to receive alerts over a low bandwidth text-based communications network;
(d) an alert generator routine adapted to generate an electronic alert to when said monitoring data signals trigger said user selectable threshold when said monitor mode is enabled.
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Abstract
A remote monitoring device is integrated as part of a cell phone or personal digital assistant. By sharing computing resources of a communications transceiver, the cost of a monitoring device can be significantly reduced, while still permitting sufficient functionality to effectively observe an area of interest, such as a child'"'"'s sleeping area. An alert is generated and transmitted to an observer using a separate transceiver when activity at the monitored area (i.e., sound or video activity) meets a specified threshold.
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25 Claims
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1. A wireless communications monitoring system comprising:
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(a) a setup routine adapted to configure and enable a monitor mode for a mobile wireless transceiver; wherein said monitor mode is enabled to detect activity within an area to be monitored by said mobile wireless transceiver; (b) a detection routine executing on an Internet based server adapted to detect monitoring data signals transmitted by said mobile wireless transceiver when said monitor mode is enabled; (c) a threshold routine adapted to set monitor mode control options, which options include a user selectable threshold required for an alert to be triggered in connection with said monitoring data signals; wherein said monitor mode control options permit a user to receive alerts over a low bandwidth text-based communications network; (d) an alert generator routine adapted to generate an electronic alert to when said monitoring data signals trigger said user selectable threshold when said monitor mode is enabled. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A wireless monitoring system comprising:
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(a) a mobile wireless transceiver adapted with a selectable monitor mode; (b) a monitoring circuit in the mobile wireless transceiver adapted to detect activity within a monitored area when said monitor mode is enabled; (c) said monitoring circuit being adapted to send monitoring data on a periodic basis through a real-time wireless communications channel to an Internet server; (d) said Internet server being configured to evaluate specifically said monitoring data from said monitored area and said mobile wireless transceiver with an alert generator routine adapted to generate an alert when said monitoring data triggers a threshold set by a user of the wireless monitoring system; (e) said Internet server further including a transmission circuit for transmitting at least said alert for the user to a separate mobile wireless transceiver identified by the user. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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25. A communications system adapted to monitor events associated with a first user within a monitored area including:
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(a) a first routine adapted to enable reporting control options on a first transceiver, which reporting control options include; i. user selectable controls for identifying target events to be detected for the first user within the monitored area; and ii. user calibration data defining said target events; iii. user selectable controls for identifying a threshold to be exceeded by said target events; iv. an option for enabling said target events to be detected for the first user during a specified period, which begins at a first time and lasts for a first time duration; and v. 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) a second routine adapted to cause said first transceiver to communicate said target events for the first user within the monitored area periodically or continuously over a real-time communications channel to an Internet server during said specified period; (c) a third routine operating at said Internet server for processing said target events to identify a selected event; wherein said Internet server further stores a journal of said target events; (d) said third routine being further adapted to report on said selected event by generating an alert from the Internet server which is communicated to a 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 cellphone to receive voice data signals.
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