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US 9,313,323 B2Granted
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.
Claims28
A computer based method for monitoring a first telephonic device configured as a one-way transmitter (mobile bug), the method comprising:
- receiving first information in response to a connection request from the first telephonic device to a virtual number, the first information including a transmitting number corresponding to the first telephonic device and the virtual number;
- identifying the first telephonic device as the mobile bug in response to matching the transmitting number of the first telephonic device with a transmitting number of the mobile bug stored in association with the virtual number in a mapping table;
- transmitting instructions for connecting the mobile bug to the virtual number, where outgoing audio to the mobile bug is disabled;
- receiving second information in response to a connection request from a second telephonic device to the virtual number, the second information including a transmitting number corresponding to the second telephonic device and the virtual number;
- identifying the second telephonic device as a monitoring device permitted to monitor the mobile bug in response to matching the transmitting number of the second telephonic device with a transmitting number of the monitoring device stored in association with the virtual number in the mapping table;
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- transmitting instructions for connecting the monitoring device to the virtual number, where outgoing audio to and incoming audio from the monitoring device are enabled.
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A computer based method for monitoring a first telephonic device configured as a one-way transmitter (mobile bug), the method comprising:
- receiving first information in response to a connection request from the first telephonic device to a receiving virtual number, the first information including a transmitting number corresponding to the first telephonic device and the receiving virtual number;
- identifying the first telephonic device as the mobile bug in response to matching the transmitting number of the first telephonic device with a transmitting number of the mobile bug stored in association with the receiving virtual number in a mapping table;
- transmitting instructions for connecting the mobile bug to the receiving virtual number;
- receiving second information in response to a connection request from a second telephonic device to a monitoring virtual number, the second information including the monitoring virtual number;
- identifying an association of the monitoring virtual number with the receiving virtual number in the mapping table, the association of the monitoring virtual number with the receiving virtual number permitting monitoring of the mobile bug;
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- transmitting instructions for establishing unidirectional audio communications from the mobile bug to the second telephonic device.
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A system for monitoring a first telephonic device configured as a one-way transmitter (mobile bug), the system comprising:
- a server comprising one or more processors and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing computer program code, the computer program code when executed performing steps comprising:
- receiving first information in response to a connection request from the first telephonic device to a receiving virtual number, the first information including a transmitting number corresponding to the first telephonic device and the receiving virtual number;
- identifying the first telephonic device as the mobile bug in response to matching the transmitting number of the first telephonic device with a transmitting number of the mobile bug stored in association with the receiving virtual number in a mapping table;
- transmitting instructions for connecting the mobile bug to the receiving virtual number;
- receiving second information in response to a connection request from a second telephonic device to a monitoring virtual number, the second information including the monitoring virtual number;
- identifying an association of the monitoring virtual number with the receiving virtual number in the mapping table, the association of the monitoring virtual number with the receiving virtual number permitting monitoring of the mobile bug;
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- transmitting instructions for establishing unidirectional audio communications from the mobile bug to the second telephonic device.
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A computer based method for monitoring a telephonic device configured as a one-way transmitter (mobile bug), the method comprising:
- receiving information in response to a connection request from the telephonic device to a virtual number, the information including a transmitting number corresponding to the telephonic device and the virtual number;
- identifying the telephonic device as the mobile bug in response to matching the transmitting number of the telephonic device with a transmitting number of the mobile bug stored in association with the virtual number in a mapping table;
- transmitting instructions for connecting the mobile bug to the virtual number;
- receiving audio data corresponding to audio communications from the mobile bug to the virtual number;
- receiving real-time information from the mobile bug, the real-time information including a plurality of location measurements of the mobile bug;
- authorizing a monitoring device to monitor the activities of the mobile bug;
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- providing the real-time information and the audio data to the monitoring device authorized to monitor the activities of the mobile bug.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.