System and method to track and log mobile communication device call status when the device is not in possession
AssigneeEchoStar Technologies L.L.C.
InventorsPhuc H. Nguyen, Christopher William Bruhn
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Abstract
A mobile device logging and tracking system permits a communicative association between a mobile device and a receiving device. When the mobile device communicates data including an indication of an unanswered call to the receiving device, the receiving device is configured to store the data in a memory. The memory may be local or remote from the receiving device. The receiving device may then communicate information associated with the unanswered call to a first electronic device, which may be an appliance, a gaming system, another mobile communication device, or some other device having computing capability.
Claims20
A method to log calls to a mobile device, comprising:
- communicatively associating the mobile device with a receiving device;
- receiving data with the receiving device from the mobile device, the data including an indication that a call to the mobile device was not answered;
- storing the data in a memory associated with the receiving device;
- and
- communicating information associated with the data from the receiving device via a local network to a smart appliance.
A receiving device, comprising:
- a first transceiver configured to be communicatively coupled to at least one mobile device;
- a second transceiver configured to communicate data to a smart appliance, the data indicating that a call to the at least one mobile device is unanswered;
- a processing unit configured to direct the receiving device to:
- accept a communication request from the at least one mobile device via the first transceiver;
- accept information from the at least one mobile device via the first transceiver, the information associated with the call to the at least one mobile device that is unanswered;
- and
- transmit an indication of the unanswered call to the smart appliance via the second transceiver.
A system, comprising:
- a receiving device communicatively coupleable to at least one mobile device;
- and
- a smart appliance communicatively coupleable to the receiving device, wherein upon receiving an indication from the mobile device that a call to the at least one mobile device was not answered, the receiving device is arranged to communicate data associated with the indication to the smart appliance.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.