SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING REMOTE INCOMING CALL NOTIFICATION FOR CELLULAR PHONES

• US 20120208596A1
• Filed: 04/23/2012
• Published: 08/16/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/14/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mullen Industries LLC
• Original Assignee: Jeffrey D. Mullen
• Inventors: Mullen, Jeffrey D.
• Granted Patent: US 8,682,398 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/557
• CPC Class Codes: G04G 21/04 using radio waves radio-controlled time-pieces G04R
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/38 Transceivers, i.e. devices in which transmitter and receiver form a structural unit and in which at least one part is used for functions of transmitting and receiving
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/724095 Worn on the wrist, hand or arm
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 19/04 the ringing-current being generated at the substations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 19/047 Vibrating means for incoming calls
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 19/048 Arrangements providing optical indication of the incoming call, e.g. flasher circuits

Abstract

The present invention provides a remote notification to a user of a cellular, or mobile, phone as the result of a particular activity or any activity at all (e.g., an incoming call from a particular person, group, or just an incoming call). In one embodiment, a sensing device is provided on the cellular phone that communicates/routes an alert to a remote notification device. In one economical embodiment, the notification device may have a short wire-based communication channel (e.g., roughly 1 foot to 5 feet) and only have a single output device (e.g., a light-emitting device). Thus, a woman may be able to quietly receive notifications of a cell phone event when her cell phone is stored in her purse.

Claims

1-14. -14. (canceled)

15. A system for use with a mobile telephonic device that provides notification of an incoming call, said system comprising:

a sensing device that is operable to be attached to said mobile telephonic device, wherein said sensing device is an autonomous sensing devices that senses user-perceivable signals from said mobile telephonic device and said sensing device provides communication signals indicative of an incoming call; and

a remote communication device configured to receive said communication signals, wherein said communication device includes a battery, said communication device is configured to provide notification signals that are only light-based, and said notification signals are dependent upon said received communication signals.