Mobile Phone as a One-Way Recorded Transmitter Over a Cellular Network
AssigneeWorld Emergency Network—Nevada, Ltd.
InventorChristopher Ryan Bennett
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Abstract
Agencies oftentimes desire to monitor personnel in the field during the course of their duties. To provide flexible monitoring capabilities to agencies, a common mobile device such as a mobile phone is converted for use as a radio-based listening system to collect and transmit audio data. Phone features and accessories are leveraged to collect additional data for transmission. Collected data is streamed or otherwise transmitted to monitoring devices at the agency or in the field for operational oversight and recordation.
Claims20
A computer based method for configuring telephonic devices as one-way recorded transmitters (mobile bugs), the method comprising:
- provisioning a plurality of virtual numbers responsive to one or more requests to configure one or more of a plurality of telephonic devices as mobile bugs;
- storing, for each telephonic device in the plurality of telephonic devices, device information corresponding to the telephonic device in association with a virtual number in the plurality of virtual numbers;
- receiving, in response to a connection request from a target telephonic device to a target virtual number in the plurality of virtual numbers, device information corresponding to the telephonic device and the target virtual number;
- identifying the target telephonic device as a mobile bug associated with the target virtual number in response to matching the device information of the target telephonic device to the device information associated with the target virtual number in a mapping table;
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- transmitting instructions for connecting the target telephonic device to the target virtual number as the mobile bug with outgoing audio to the target telephonic device disabled.
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising computer program code for configuring telephonic devices as one-way recorded transmitters (mobile bugs), the computer program code when executed by a processor causing the processor to perform steps comprising:
- provisioning a plurality of virtual numbers responsive to one or more requests to configure one or more of a plurality of telephonic devices as mobile bugs;
- storing, for each telephonic device in the plurality of telephonic devices, device information corresponding to the telephonic device in association with a virtual number in the plurality of virtual numbers;
- receiving, in response to a connection request from a target telephonic device to a target virtual number in the plurality of virtual numbers, device information corresponding to the telephonic device and the target virtual number;
- identifying the target telephonic device as a mobile bug associated with the target virtual number in response to matching the device information of the target telephonic device to the device information associated with the target virtual number in a mapping table;
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- transmitting instructions for connecting the target telephonic device to the target virtual number as the mobile bug with outgoing audio to the target telephonic device disabled.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.