(12) United States Patent
`Wesby-van Swaay
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`(10) Patent No.:
`(45) Date of Patent:
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`US 8,542,111 B2
`*Sep. 24, 2013
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`US008542111B2
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`PROGRAMMABLE COMMUNICATOR
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`Applicant: M2M Solutions LLC,
`Stratford-upon-Avon (GB)
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`Inventor: Eveline Wesby-van Swaay,
`Stratford-upon-Avon (GB)
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`Assignee: M2M Solutions LLC, Tiddington,
`Stratford-upon-Avon (GB)
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`(*)
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`Notice:
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`Subject to any disclaimer, the term of this
`patent is extended or adjusted under 35
`U.S.C. 154(b) by 0 days.
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`This patent is subject to a terminal dis-
`claimer.
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`(21)
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`Appl. No.: 13/801,773
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`(22)
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`Filed:
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`Mar. 13, 2013
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`Prior Publication Data
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`US 2013/0196633 A1
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`Aug. 1,2013
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`Continuation of application No. 13/328,095, filed on
`Dec. 16, 2011, which is a continuation of application
`No. 12/538,603, filed onAug. 10, 2009, now Pat. No.
`8,094,010, which is a continuation of application No.
`11/329,212, filed on Jan. 10, 2006, now Pat. No.
`7,583,197, which is a continuation of application No.
`10/296,571, filed as application No. PCT/EP01/05738
`on May 18, 2001, now abandoned.
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`Foreign Application Priority Data
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`May 23, 2000
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`(FI) .................................... .. 20001239
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`(51)
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`Int. Cl.
`G08B 23/00
`G08B 5/22
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`H04Q 1/30
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`(2006.01)
`(2006.01)
`(2006.01)
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`(65)
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`(63)
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`(52) U.S. Cl.
`USPC ................ .. 340/539.12; 340/573.4; 340/729;
`340/732; 340/752
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`(58) Field of Classification Search
`USPC .......... .. 340/539.12, 573.4, 693.5, 7.29, 7.33,
`340/752; 455/456, 456.2, 418, 419, 425;
`379/142, 373, 375
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`ABSTRACT
`(57)
`A programmable communicator device is disclosed having a
`wireless communications circuit, including an antenna, con-
`figured to receive a transmission, and an identity module
`having a unique identifier. The programmable communicator
`further includes a processing module including program code
`configured to determine ifthe transmission is from an authen-
`ticated caller by determining whether a received transmission
`contains the unique identifier, and memory configured to
`store telephone numbers or IP addresses received in transmis-
`sions from an authenticated caller.
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`30 Claims, 3 Drawing Sheets
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`Related U.S. Application Data
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`(Continued)
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`OUTGOING MESSAGE OR CALL
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`UTHENTICATED MESSAGE
`OMPRISING UNIQUE
`DENTIFIER RECEIVES
`REQUESTED DATA FROM
`DEVICE ASSOCIATED WITH
`PROGRAMMABLE
`OMMUNICATOR
`
`LINKED TELEPHONE DRIP
`NTERNEF WEB PAGE
`DDRESS OF [P DEVICE OR
`RECEIVES INFORMATION
`BOUT THE CHANGE IN
`TATUS.
`
`LINKED TELEPHONE OR IP
`DDRES5 OF IP DEVICE OR
`NTERNET WEB PAGE
`RECEIVES INFORMATION
`BOUT THE CURRENT STATUS
`
`6 I
`
`.
`
`7
`
`8
`
`I
`
`ACTION PERFORMED BV
`PROGRAMMABLE OOMMUNICATDR
`PROGRAMMABLE
`OMMUNICATOR COLLECTS
`DATA FROM AN ASSOCIATED
`DEVICE AND TRANSMITS IT
`
`REMOTE
`DEVICE
`
`DDRESS
`SEUFCTEE
`o LINKEDTELEPHONE DRIP \ l:
`HANGE IN STATUS OF THE
`PROGRAMMABLE
`OMMUNICATOR CAUSES
`MESSAGE TO BE SENT TO
`LINKED TELEPHONE OR IP
`‘ DDRESS.
`
`PROGRAMMABLE COMMUNICATOR
`OLLECT5 INFORMATION ON
`URRENT STATUS CONDITION
`ND SENDS IT PERIODICALLY TO
`LINKED TELEPHONE OR IF
`DDRESS
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`Sheet 1 of3
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`MEANS TO RESELECT
`LINKED TELEPHONE
`NUMBER OR IP
`ADDRESS
`150
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`PROGRAMMABLE
`INTERFACE MEANS
`140
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`PERIODIC STATUS
`REPORT GENERATION
`MEANS
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`ANTENNA
`20
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`RINGING TONE
`GENERATOR /
`AUTO ANSWER
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`MOEOULE
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`130
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`BATTERY
`CHARGE
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`THEPHONE
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`BLUETOOTH
`MODULE
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`35
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`30
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`10
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`SMS ALARM
`GENERATION MEANS
`70
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`SMS PROCESSING
`MEANS
`60
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`SOU ND-BYTE
`CAPTURE
`MEANS +
`THRESHOLD
`DETECTOR
`100
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`SENSOR MEANS
`80
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`AUTH ENTICATION
`MEANS
`90
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`PERMI'|'|'ED
`CALLERS LIST
`110
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`ALARM M ESSAGE
`LIST
`120
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`Fig. 1
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`INCOMING MESSAGE OR CALL
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`ACTION PERFORMED BY
`PROGRAMMABLE COMMUNICATOR
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`AUTHENTIC MESSAGE
`COMPRISING UNIQUE
`IDENTIFIER AND
`LINKING TELEPHONE
`NUMBER OR IP
`ADDRESS
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`AUTHENTIC MESSAGE
`COMPRISING UNIQUE
`IDENTIFIER AND ONE
`OR MORE TELEPHONE
`NUMBERS OR IP
`ADDRESSES
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`INCOMING CALL
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`INCOMING CALL
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`INCOMING CALL
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`INCOMING CALL IS
`TERMINATED
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`Fig.2
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`PROGRAMMABLE
`COMMUNICATOR PROCESSES
`MESSAGE AND STORES NEW
`LINKING TELEPHONE NUMBER
`OR IP ADDRESS
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`PROGRAMMABLE
`COMMUNICATOR PROCESSES
`MESSAGE AND STORES
`NUMBERS IN THE PERMITTED
`CALLERS LIST
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`PROGRAMMABLE
`COMMUNICATOR VERIFIES
`HAT CALLER IS ON
`PERMITTED CALLERS LIST
`‘ ND CAUSES THE RINGING
`ONE TO BE GENERATED.
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`PROGRAMMABLE
`COMMUNICATOR IS UNABLE
`O VERIFY THAT THE CALLER
`IS ON THE PERMITTED
`CALLERS LIST AND THE CALL
`IS TERMINATED
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`HE PROGRAMMABLE
`COMMUNICATOR VERIFIES
`HAT THE CALLER IS ON THE
`PERMITTED CALLERS LIST
`AND AUTO ANSWERS
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`AUTO—ANSWERED CALL IS
`ERMINATED BY THE
`ERMINATION OF THE
`INCOMING CALL AND THE
`PROGRAMMABLE
`COMMUNICATOR REVERTS TO
`IDLE STATE.
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`OU1-GOING MESSAGE OR CALL
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`ACTION PERFORMED BY
`PROGRAMMABLE COMMUNICATOR
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`REMOTE
`DEVICE
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`PROGRAMMABLE
`AUTHENTICATED MESSAGE
`COMMUNICATOR COLLECTS
`COMPRISING UNIQUE
`DATA FROM AN ASSOCIATED
`IDENTIFIER RECEIvEs
`DEVICE AND TRANsMITs IT
`REQUESTED DATA FROM
`DEVICE ASSOCIATED WITH
`0 LINKED TELEPHONE OR I
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`PROGRAMMABLE
`ADDRESS
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`REMOTE
`DEVICE
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`COMMUNICATOR LINKED TELEPHONE OR IP
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`INTERN ET WEB PAGE
`ADDRESS OF IP DEVICE OR
`RECEIVES INFORMATION
`ABOUT THE CHANGE IN
`STATUS.
`
`CHANGE IN STATUS OF THE
`
`COMMUNICATOR CAUSES
`PROGRAMMABLE
`MESSAGE TO BE SENT TO
`LINKED TELEPHONE OR IP
`ADDRESS.
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`6
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`'
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`7
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`-
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`8
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`LINKED TELEPHONE OR IP
`ADDRESS OF IP DEVICE OR
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`INTERN ET WEB PAGE
`RECEIVES INFORMATION
`ABOUT THE CURRENT STATUS.
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`ADDRESS
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`PROGRAMMABLE COMMUNICATO
`COLLECTS INFORMATION ON
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`CURRENT STATUS CONDITION
`AND SENDS IT PERIODICALLY TO
`LINKED TELEPHONE OR IP
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`Fig. 3
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`PROGRAMMABLE COMMUNICATOR
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`PRIORITY
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`This patent application is a continuation of and claims
`priority from all priority dates of U.S. patent application Ser.
`No. 13/328,095, filed Dec. 16, 2011, and entitled “Program-
`mable Communicator”. As a consequence of this priority
`claim, this patent application also claims priority to U.S.
`patent application Ser. No. 12/538,603, filed Aug. 10, 2009,
`now U.S. Pat. No. 8,094,010, and entitled “Programmable
`Communicator”, which is a continuation ofU.S. patent appli-
`cation Ser. No. 11/329,212, filed Jan. 10, 2006, now U.S. Pat.
`No. 7,583,197, and entitled “Programmable Communicator”
`which is a continuation of and claims priority to U.S. patent
`application Ser. No. 10/296,571, filed Jan. 21, 2003, and
`entitled “Programmable Communicator,” which, in turn, is a
`National Phase filing of and claims priority to PCT/EP01/
`05738 filed on May 18, 2001, which further claims priority
`from Finland Application 20001239, filed May 23, 2000. The
`disclosures of each of these applications are incorporated
`herein by reference in their entirety.
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`BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
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`The invention relates to a programmable wireless commu-
`nications apparatus. More particularly, it relates to a program-
`mable wireless communications apparatus, which can pro-
`vide an improved means of communication between children
`and their parents, between elderly persons and caring rela-
`tives, and between mentally less-able individuals and super-
`vising adults. In addition, the invention provides a solution for
`smart clothes applications, which may comprise a telecom-
`munications means within the lining of a jacket or other
`article of clothing, as well as a solution for user-program-
`mable 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 inter-
`national patent application PCT/GB98/02715.
`In this previously filed application, is taught the invention
`ofusing a mobile phone comprising a programmable identity
`module such as a SIM card, in the context of the GSM tele-
`communications standard, to program the number of any
`mobile or fixed telephone to which the Hotlink communica-
`tor, comprising a similar type ofprogrammable identity mod-
`ule, is to be linked. Existing and known methods of commu-
`nication
`between
`the mobile
`phone
`and Hotlink
`communicator for the purpose of programming comprise the
`obvious choice of data calls such as the Short Message Ser-
`vice in the GSM telecommunications standard. Alternatively
`a PDA type communicator might call up a web page to
`instruct a network element to program the programmable
`identity module ofthe Hotlink with the number ofany fixed or
`mobile telephone to which the Hotlink communicator is to be
`linked.
`
`This use of a separate mobile phone to program the number
`to which the Hotlink may call is particularly useful and con-
`venient should a parent wish to change the number if the
`parent must leave shortly and want that the Hotlink is con-
`nected immediately to the mobile phone or fixed line of
`another parent or supervising neighbour.
`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
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`wireless data communication tags for the purpose of provid-
`ing information about the status ofa 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.
`In addition to this, the current invention relates directly to
`programmable wireless data communication tags, which
`comprise the means to be interfaced directly with other tech-
`nical 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.
`Today parents are concerned whether to provide a young
`child with a mobile phone or not. The concern relates to the
`cost ofthe mobile phone should it be lost or stolen and also to
`the cost ofthe use ofthe mobile phone. Clearly there is a need
`to provide a means to limit the cost of calling and also to
`provide a means to prevent the child dialling overseas num-
`bers for extensive periods of time.
`In the context of mobile phone operators, there exists a
`need to provide a simple and effective communication device,
`which can provide the means for family tariffing such that
`subscriptions for children can be related to the subscriptions
`of their parents’ mobile phones. An improved child Hotlink
`communicator, which restricts the usage of the mobile phone
`and thereby does not generate high charges through uncon-
`trolled calling,
`is clearly a solution to the family tarifiing
`challenge.
`Parents are often concerned about the whereabouts of their
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`children and new positioning technologies are being devel-
`oped for locating mobile phones. These solutions include
`self-positioning solutions and remote positioning solutions.
`One example of a self-positiomng solution includes the sat-
`ellite-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
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`network. One example of 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 ofthe area or
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`sector within which the mobile phone is located.
`While the location of the mobile phone itself is a good
`indication of the present location of the person carrying the
`mobile phone, an improvement would be a means to lock the
`mobile phone to the child, such that use of the mobile phone
`positioning technologies would then determine the position
`of the child.
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`In addition to these concerns about the failures of existing
`mobile communications technology to provide an improved
`and more secure method of instant communication between a
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`parent and a young child, and the means to determine the
`position of the child, there is additional concern that the
`battery of the communicator may drain its power without the
`parent knowing, or may be removed, which would prevent the
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`communicator from receiving calls or dialling to the pro-
`grammed fixed or mobile number to which the communicator
`is linked.
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`In addition to these specific communication problem
`needs, there is a growing yet unsubstantiated concern about
`the potentially harmful effect of electromagnetic radiation
`from mobile phones upon the developing brains of young
`children. Within this context, there is an opportunity to design
`a communication device for children, which positions the
`radiating electromagnetic field of a communication device
`away from the close proximity of the brain. In this regard,
`parents who maintain the belief that mobile telephones
`present a health risk due to the radiating antenna may rest
`secure in the knowledge that this risk can be significantly
`reduced.
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`In a separate context, there exists a growing need for a
`mobile telephone solution, which is cost effective to manu-
`facture, but which is versatile such that it can form the basis
`for a smart clothes tag or communications application plat-
`form. In this context the requirement is for an embedded
`mobile phone platform comprising no keypad or display,
`which may be sewn into the lining of a jacket, or other article
`of clothing, having only the call button protruding and a
`simple pin connection to recharge the battery. The problem
`with prior art solutions is that unless the smart clothes tag can
`be user-programrnable to call any fixed or mobile number by
`making use of an acceptable method such as via an SMS data
`call or via a BlueTooth radio transmission from a mobile
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`ment.
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`In security applications where emergency service person-
`nel carry hand-held primary communications devices such as
`conventional mobile phones, 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.
`
`In sports areas such as on lakes where there may be people
`using canoes, 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 otherpersons in the area
`to go to their rescue.
`In an additional application area, skiers in difficulty would
`benefit from a smart clothes user-programmable communi-
`cations tag attached to their clothing, which is pre-pro-
`grammed to be linked with a fixed or mobile telephone and
`need only have its protruding button pressed to make com-
`munication with a central alarm point.
`In an additional application area there exists the need for 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 com-
`municate the status of the technical equipment.
`In an additional application area there exists the need for a
`versatile communications platform, which can be combined
`with remote health monitoring technology to assist doctors
`with remote diagnosis of patients.
`In an additional application there is the need for a versatile
`communications which is able to work effectively when the
`network is temporarily overloaded such that it has the means
`to store a sound message as a sound byte or convert it using
`voice recognition software such that it can be forwarded as
`soon as the network capacity becomes less loaded.
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`Further to these limitations of existing technologies, and so
`far as is known, no portable communication apparatus is
`presently available which serves to offer an improved pro-
`grammable communicator which is directed towards the spe-
`cific needs of this problem area as outlined.
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`OBJECTS OF THE INVENTION
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`Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to
`provide an improved programmable communications appa-
`ratus, which can be remotely programmed by any mobile
`phone or IP device such that it can be linked to any particular
`fixed or mobile phone or IP device.
`It is a further object of the present invention to provide a
`programmable communications apparatus, which may be
`programmed at close range using infrared light or a Blue-
`Tooth radio connection, or via a terminal-to-terminal network
`based data call such as the GSM SMS short message service
`or via a GPRS packet data communication.
`It is a further object of the present invention to provide a
`programmable