US20040046637A1 - Programmable communicator - Google Patents

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US20040046637A1
US20040046637A1 US10/296,571 US29657103A US2004046637A1 US 20040046637 A1 US20040046637 A1 US 20040046637A1 US 29657103 A US29657103 A US 29657103A US 2004046637 A1 US2004046637 A1 US 2004046637A1
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  • the invention relates to a programmable wireless communications apparatus. More particularly, it relates to a programmable wireless communications apparatus, which can provide an improved means of communication between children and their parents, between elderly persons and caring relatives, and between mentally less-able individuals and supervising adults.
  • the invention provides a solution for smart clothes applications, which may comprise a telecommunications means within the lining of a jacket or other article of clothing, as well as a solution for user-programmable data tags which convey information from remotely located devices such as vending machines.
  • the invention relates to and significantly improves upon a previously filed patent application claiming Finnish priority of Sep. 9, 1997 entitled a Portable Hotlink Communicator published as international patent application PCT/GB98/02715.
  • a mobile phone comprising a programmable identity module such as a SIM card
  • a programmable identity module such as a SIM card
  • existing and known methods of communication between the mobile phone and Hotlink communicator for the purpose of programming comprise the obvious choice of data calls such as the Short Message Service in the GSM telecommunications standard.
  • a PDA type communicator might call up a web page to instruct a network element to program the programmable identity module of the Hotlink with the number of any fixed or mobile telephone to which the Hotlink communicator is to be linked.
  • the current invention builds upon the teaching of this earlier application and extends the concept significantly that it has more general and suitable application to both the child Hotlink communicator and also to the field of programmable wireless data communication tags for the purpose of providing information about the status of a vending machine or other piece of technical equipment such as a home appliance or a device to monitor whether a door is open or closed.
  • the current invention relates directly to programmable wireless data communication tags, which comprise the means to be interfaced directly with other technical equipment such that each tag can be programmed remotely by any means to be linked to any fixed or mobile telephone to enable data to be sent to or from the device and to allow a person to make a voice call connection to the linked telephone.
  • a self-positioning solution includes the satellite-based Global Positioning System technology in which the mobile phone comprising a GPS signal processing circuit is able to determine the coordinates of its own position by processing signals received from satellites and communicate these coordinates to a location centre associated with the network.
  • a remote positioning solution is the method taught in U.S. Pat. No. 5,051,741 claiming priority of Mar. 27, 1990 in which the mobile phone is paged and caused to transmit a response which is processed by communication stations such as time-of-arrival measurement units associated with the network of master stations or base stations.
  • This remote positioning method has the advantage that the position of the mobile phone can be determined by making use of existing signalling between the mobile phone and the network without requiring any changes to the mobile phone, which would increase its cost.
  • the generic network-based, remote-positioning architecture method of U.S. Pat. No. 5,051,741 may make use of time of arrival methods or phase difference calculations to increase the resolution of the area or sector within which the mobile phone is located.
  • a back-up communications device such as a smart clothes embedded tag can be of great value in the instance that the primary communications device is lost or broken.
  • a smart clothes communications tag embedded in a life vest may serve to alert a central control point that a person is in difficulty and also to alert other persons in the area to go to their rescue.
  • skiers in difficulty would benefit from a smart clothes user-programmable communications tag attached to their clothing, which is pre-programmed to be linked with a fixed or mobile telephone and need only have its protruding button pressed to make communication with a central alarm point.
  • a user-programmable remote wireless communications data tag which can be used to relay information about the status of a remote piece of technical equipment such as a vending machine.
  • Home networks could be simplified by making use of the existing mobile network infrastructure to relay data about the status of a home appliance or to indicate whether a door is open or closed.
  • Packet switched technologies such as GPRS may be used as the radio access technology to communicate the status of the technical equipment.
  • a programmable communications apparatus which may have a separate pressure sensitive means or displaceable means which becomes activated in the pressed position or displaced position respectively such that it is able to generate an alarm or data message when pressure is removed or when the displacement returns to the non-displaced position.
  • Such a feature serves, by way of example, to replace the need for the wrist strap feature of the previous object such that when the wrist worn communicator is removed from the wrist the pressure sensitive means or displaceable means can provide the required alarm message.
  • a domestic appliance such as a washing machine or a device to monitor whether a door or window is open or closed
  • the said apparatus may be incorporated in a bicycle frame or attached to a bicycle for monitoring movement of the bicycle.
  • the feature may also include a continuous retry feature such that the attempt to send the sound byte or data record is continued until the sound byte or data record is successfully sent.
  • a programmable communications apparatus which comprises the means to be interrogated remotely by another fixed or mobile telephone or network connected device, such that different codes are used to obtain different data from the said apparatus.
  • remote health monitoring by way of example, a doctor could send different codes from her mobile terminal and obtain different data on blood pressure and the heart rate of the person wearing the apparatus associated with a health monitoring system.
  • the said apparatus may make use of physical monitoring means associated with said apparatus for providing information about the skin temperature and blood pressure and other characteristics of the human body.
  • a further object of this application includes a water-enabled communications apparatus, which may be used to communicate with a portable central communications unit.
  • This application also includes the feature, which returns the programmable communicator automatically to idle state as soon as the caller to the child terminates the call remotely. This avoids the need that the child must terminate the call. It also prevents the child from terminating the call by accident.
  • the programmable communicator preferably comprises a basic mobile telephone circuit having no keypad or display and a rechargeable battery and antenna and a basic two-way microphone device and remotely pre-programmable identity module linking it to a single mobile or fixed telephone.
  • the programmable communicator comprises an alarm means to indicate certain conditions of the communicator such as the charge level of its battery or if the battery is removed.
  • Similar alarm messages are generated according to the particular embodiment of the programmable communicator application which include the generation of messages when an associated wrist strap or attachment of the communicator in the case of a smart clothes application is undone or displaced or when the communicator is switched on or off or when the communicator is set to monitor the status condition of an associated device and the status changes beyond a preset threshold level.
  • the invention also includes the generation of periodic messages to indicate that the communicator is working and that any associated status condition thresholds remain unchanged.
  • This last set of messages, which includes periodic reassurances messages includes the facility that the user may set the duration of the period according to the application.
  • the programmable communicator has direct and effective application to home networks for the purpose of transmitting information about the status condition of domestic appliances such as the pressure of water pipes and whether a door or window is opened or closed.
  • the wireless programmable communicator can be attached to an associated monitoring device and programmed with the number of a mobile or fixed telephone to which it is to be linked or to an Internet web page which can be made accessible to authenticated users or to security monitoring personnel.
  • FIG. 1 illustrates the schematic of the programmable communicator according to one embodiment of the invention.
  • PIG. 2 illustrates a schema showing the actions performed by the programmable communicator in response to an incoming call or message according to the present invention.
  • FIG. 3 illustrates a schema showing actions done by the programmable communicator and the outgoing calls or messages, which are generated as a consequence of said actions.
  • FIG. 1 therein illustrated is a programmable communicating apparatus according to one embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIG. 1 a telephone circuit 10 , which comprises an antenna 20 and a battery 30 .
  • an optional BlueTooth module 40 for communication with a nearby data communication or programming device having a similar BlueTooth radio module.
  • the telephone circuit 10 has a ringing tone generator and an auto answer module 50 which may be used to cause the programmable communicator to generate one of a number of ringing tones or to auto answer upon receipt of an authenticated permitted caller.
  • an SMS processing means 60 For the purposes of programming the IP address or telephone number of the fixed or mobile telephone to which the communicator is linked is provided an SMS processing means 60 . This communicates with an authentication means 90 , which in turn is able to store numbers into a permitted callers list 110 .
  • an authentication means 90 For the purposes of security, a sound byte capture means and threshold detector means 100 is provided to generate an alarm message or to send a sound byte to one of the numbers on the permitted callers list. Additional voice recognition software may be used to convert the sound byte into text and send this to the destination telephone number or IP address.
  • An SMS alarm generation means 70 is provided to work together with a battery charge monitor 35 and a sensor means 80 and an alarm message list 120 and a programmable interface means 140 to generate alarm messages in response to changes in status conditions.
  • Said programmable interface means may be attached to all manner of sensor devices for the purpose of relaying data from external devices and sensors either automatically or in response to a request for information from a remote device.
  • the periodic status report means 130 may be programmed to provide data on the current status of the programmable communicator as well as data from one or more devices, which may be connected to the communicator via the BlueTooth module 40 .
  • a reselection means 150 provides one or more connection numbers from the permitted callers list.
  • This device comprises a novel combination of existing technologies and features, which make possible the existence of a new and improved communicating apparatus to address the communication needs of children and elderly persons and for programmable data tags for monitoring the status of associated technical equipment.
  • the use of the programmable communicator involves two phases, a pre-programming phase and an active phase.
  • the communicator is programmed with the number it can call which comprises a unique code.
  • the invention is now described in the context of the GSM mobile telecommunications standard using the Short Message Service or SMS circuit-switched data call.
  • the invention relates to all telephone standards including, and not limited to CDMA and US-TDMA, and is effectively used also in a packet switching mode such as the GSM GPRS packet switching mode.
  • the invention is suitably applicable to IP devices, which comprise IP addresses rather than telephone numbers.
  • the invention it is wished to allow only authenticated callers to change the telephone number or IP address of a fixed or mobile telephone or network device to which the programmable communicator is to be linked. This may be done in GSM using an SMS message, which includes data as well as a unique code such as the unique code of the Subscriber Identity Module or SIM card, often referred to as the PUK code.
  • the PUK code is a unique identifier, which is different for every SIM card.
  • the choice of the PUK is made by way of example only and any similar unique coding may be used for the purpose of the invention
  • the remote transmitting device includes the PUK code of the receiving programmable communicator in its SMS transmission as well as a telephone number to which the programmable communicator is to be linked.
  • the programmable communicator includes a processing means to determine that the PUK code is correct and the means to store the transmitted number.
  • the PUK code may also be used to program the list of permitted callers.
  • An SMS comprising the PUK code may contain a plurality of telephone numbers each of which designates a permitted caller's number. Only numbers, which are stored as designated permitted callers, will cause the programmable communicator to generate a ringing tone.
  • the programmable communicator may include circuitry to terminate the calls of non-permitted callers automatically. In the same way that the telephone number of an incoming call can be shown on the screen of a mobile phone before the phone is answered, this information may be used to enable the programmable communicator to receive the call or to reject it.
  • Additional codes may be used by authenticated callers to interrogate the status condition of the programmable communicator, or to interrogate the status of data monitoring devices to which the communicator is wired or wirelessly attached.
  • SMS 1. PUK code A:040 111 1111
  • SMS 2. PUK code B:040 222 2222
  • the letters A to E in the five messages or any equivalent coding may be used to designate the priority of the telephone numbers of the permitted callers such that letter A designates the number to which the programmable communicator is linked at this moment.
  • a child may be playing in the garden or near to the house wearing a programmable communicator programmed to the mother's telephone phone number, 040 111 1111.
  • the father comes home and sends an SMS to the child's programmable communicator using his phone having telephone number 040 222 2222.
  • the message comprises PUK code A:040 222 2222 which cause the calling number of the programmable communicator to be now reprogrammed to call the father's number if its call button is pressed by the child.
  • An additional security feature comprises software, which will cause an SMS emergency message to be sent automatically to the pre-programmed number if the wrist strap is broken or undone, or the communicator is switched off.
  • An additional sensor may be used instead of a means to generate an SMS message if the wrist strap is broken or undone whereby said sensor can sense the heat of the skin, which will cause an SMS message to be sent if the communicator is moved away from the skin.
  • Additional software features may generate messages to indicate the charge of the battery or if the battery drains completely or is removed.
  • the programmable communicator may comprise a separate back-up power supply in addition to the battery, which is sufficient to generate an alarm message or number of alarm messages, in the instance that a power connection is lost from an associated device or if its own battery supply drains completely.
  • the telephone number to which the programmable communicator is linked receives messages about the status of the battery and an indication of whether the communicator has been removed from the child.
  • the programmable communicator comprises a processing module, which can receive information about its wrist strap or associated attachment.
  • the said associated attachment may comprise a fibre or wire, which, if mechanically pulled, causes the generation of an alarm message.
  • the opening or closing of the wrist strap may be used to activate an electronic circuit to generate a status condition of the wrist strap. It is anticipated that the receiver of the alarm message may then call the child directly, if possible, to check if there is a problem. Additionally, location based services may be used to locate the position of the communicator relative to the network infrastructure.
  • the programmable communicator comprises a feature, which enables a user to cause it to transmit a status message periodically, according to a periodic duration as set by the user, which will provide reassurance that the communicator is functioning correctly, and for example, that the wrist strap is closed, and that the battery has sufficient power.
  • the types of data that the communicator can provide periodically, or on request, are determined directly by the application of the invention according to different remote monitoring embodiments.
  • the programmable communicator has the appropriate means to receive the data from the monitoring device and the means to process the data.
  • the programmable communicator has further direct application to the field of remote data monitoring such as in the home network environment.
  • remote data monitoring such as in the home network environment.
  • the programmable communicator may be used to generate data messages, which describe the status or change in status beyond a threshold condition, of a household appliance and communicate this data directly to a linked telephone number or IP address of a linked device or Internet web page.
  • the use of GSM GPRS packet switching technology in this context is ideal since the application does not require a continuous circuit switched connection to the network.
  • the remote monitoring application comprises the use of a programmable communicator, which reacts to a status condition and then initiates a packet data transmission to the network. Consequently, the programmable communicator comprises a separate back-up power supply in addition to the battery, which is sufficient to generate an alarm message or number of alarm messages, in the instance that a power connection is lost from an associated device or if its own battery supply drains completely.
  • the programmable communicator may be used to gather data from a number of associated monitoring devices and to communicate this to the linked telephone or IP device or Internet web page.
  • the monitoring devices may be directly linked to the programmable communicator by wire or wirelessly connected by, for example, the BlueTooth radio technology in which case the programmable communicator comprises the necessary additional BlueTooth communications module.
  • the programmable communicator may comprise a smart clothes tag and be sewn into the lining of a life vest such that a person paddling a canoe may use it for urgent communication.
  • the invention may be utilised as a voice and data communicator for bicycles.
  • data from the bicycle such as speed could be used in sports training as a means to enhance the performance of a cyclist.
  • a programmable communicator can be used to inform the owner of a bicycle that his parked bicycle is being moved and to determine its location, if needed, by making use of the location-based services functionality of the telecommunications network.
  • the hot link communicator may make use of any telephone technology such as CDMA, and US-TDMA.
  • the inventive features of the programmable communicator may be incorporated into a monitoring device and integrated with it such that the device comprises the capability of the programmable communicator.
  • the invention is not limited to the application of the programmable communicator as a separate device, which separately communicates with data monitoring devices but also includes the application of the functionality of the invention as an integrated part of the monitoring device.
  • the invention may make use of all coding schemes for storing numbers to the programmable apparatus and the use of the PUK code was by way of example only.
  • the programmable communicator may comprise the means to accept all manner of clip on covers so that the same base model may carry one of a number of different covers to suit the tastes and the age groups of different wearers.
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US11/329,212 US7583197B2 (en) 2000-05-23 2006-01-10 Programmable communicator
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