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.
Claims21
1-20. (canceled)
A computer based method for configuring a multi-directional communications device as a one-way transmitter, the method comprising:
- provisioning a virtual number responsive to a request to configure a multi-directional communications device as a one-way transmitter;
- storing, for the multi-directional communications device, a mapping of device-specific information of the multi-directional communications device to the virtual number;
- receiving a request to connect to the virtual number;
- in response to receiving the request, retrieving the mapping;
- determining whether the request includes the device-specific information indicated by the mapping;
- in response to determining that the request includes the device-specific information, determining that the multi-directional device is to be configured as a one-way transmitter;
- and
- transmitting instructions to connect the multi-directional communications device to the virtual number with outgoing audio disabled.
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising computer program code for configuring a multi-directional communications device as a one-way transmitter, the computer program code when executed by a processor causing the processor to perform steps comprising:
- provisioning a virtual number responsive to a request to configure a multi-directional communications device as a one-way transmitter;
- storing, for the multi-directional communications device, a mapping of device-specific information of the multi-directional communications device to the virtual number;
- receiving a request to connect to the virtual number;
- in response to receiving the request, retrieving the mapping;
- determining whether the request includes the device-specific information indicated by the mapping;
- in response to determining that the request includes the device-specific information, determining that the multi-directional device is to be configured as a one-way transmitter;
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- transmitting instructions to connect the multi-directional communications device to the virtual number with outgoing audio disabled.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.