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`CERTIFICATION AND REQUEST FOR PRIORITIZED EXAMINATION
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`S,,,a,u,e /Jonathan C. Lovely, #60,821/
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`we July 3, 2013
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`Jonathan C. Lovely
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`Attorney Docket: 3781/1014
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`Programmable Communicator
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`This patent application is a continuation of and claims priority fiom all priority dates of U.S.
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`patent application serial number 13/801,773, filed March 13, 2013, and entitled
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`“Programmable Communicator” (attorney docket number 3781/1010). U.S. patent
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`application serial number 13/801,773 is a continuation of and claims priority to U.S. patent
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`application serial number 13/328,095, filed December 16, 2011, and entitled
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`“Programmable Communicator” (attorney docket number 3781/1007), which is a
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`continuation of and claims priority to U.S. patent application serial number 12/538,603, filed
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`August 10, 2009, now U.S. Patent No. 8,094,010, and entitled “Programmable
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`Communicator” (attorney docket number 3781/1006), which is a continuation of and claims
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`priority to U.S. patent application serial number 11/329,212, filed January 10, 2006, now
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`U.S. Patent No. 7,583,197, and entitled “Programmable Communicator” (attorney docket
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`number 3781/1002), which is a continuation of and claims priority to U.S. Patent Application
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`10/296,571, filed January 21, 2003, and entitled “Programmable Communicator,” which,
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`in turn, is a National Phase filing of and claims priority to PCT/EP01/05738 filed on May 18,
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`2001, which further claims priority from Finland Application 20001239, filed May 23, 2000.
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`The disclosures of each of these applications are incorporated herein by reference in their
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`Background of the Invention
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`The invention relates to a programmable wireless communications apparatus. More
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`particularly, it relates to a programmable wireless communications apparatus, which can
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`provide an improved means of communication between children and their parents, between
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`elderly persons and caring relatives, and between mentally less-able individuals and
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`supervising adults. In addition, the invention provides a solution for smart clothes
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`applications, which may comprise a telecommunications means within the lining of a jacket
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`or other article of clothing, as well as a solution for user-programmable data tags which
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`convey information from remotely located devices such as vending machines. The invention
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`relates to and significantly improves upon a previously filed patent application claiming
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`Finnish priority of Sep. 9, 1997 entitled a Portable Hotlink Communicator published as
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`international patent application PCT/GB98/02715.
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`In this previously filed application, is taught the invention of using a mobile phone
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`comprising a programmable identity module such as a SIM card, in the context of the GSM
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`telecommunications standard, to program the number of any mobile or fixed telephone to
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`which the Hotlink communicator, comprising a similar type of programmable identity
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`module, is to be linked. Existing and known methods of communication between the mobile
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`phone and Hotlink communicator for the purpose of programming comprise the obvious
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`choice of data calls such as the Short Message Service in the GSM telecommunications
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`standard. Alternatively a PDA type communicator might call up a web page to instruct a
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`network element to program the programmable identity module of the Hotlink with the
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`number of any fixed or mobile telephone to which the Hotlink communicator is to be linked.
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`This use of a separate mobile phone to program the number to which the Hotlink may call is
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`particularly useful and convenient should a parent wish to change the number if the parent
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`must leave shortly and want that the Hotlink is connected immediately to the mobile phone
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`or fixed line of another parent or supervising neighbour.
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`The current invention builds upon the teaching of this earlier application and extends the
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`concept significantly that it has more general and suitable application to both the child
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`Hotlink communicator and also to the field of programmable wireless data communication
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`tags for the purpose of providing information about the status of a vending machine or other
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`piece of technical equipment such as a home appliance or a device to monitor whether a door
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`is open or closed.
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`In addition to this, the current invention relates directly to programmable wireless data
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`communication tags, which comprise the means to be interfaced directly with other technical
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`equipment such that each tag can be programmed remotely by any means to be linked to any
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`fixed or mobile telephone to enable data to be sent to or from the device and to allow a
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`person to make a voice call connection to the linked telephone.
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`Today parents are concerned whether to provide a young child with a mobile phone or not.
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`The concern relates to the cost of the mobile phone should it be lost or stolen and also to the
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`cost of the use of the mobile phone. Clearly there is a need to provide a means to limit the
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`cost of calling and also to provide a means to prevent the child dialling overseas numbers for
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`extensive periods of time.
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`In the context of mobile phone operators, there exists a need to provide a simple and
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`effective communication device, which can provide the means for family tariffing such that
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`subscriptions for children can be related to the subscriptions of their parents‘ mobile phones.
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`An improved child Hotlink communicator, which restricts the usage of the mobile phone and
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`thereby does not generate high charges through uncontrolled calling, is clearly a solution to
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`the family tariffing challenge.
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`Parents are often concerned about the whereabouts of their children and new positioning
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`technologies are being developed for locating mobile phones. These solutions include self-
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`positioning solutions and remote positioning solutions. One example of a self-positioning
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`solution includes the satellite-based Global Positioning System technology in which the
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`mobile phone comprising a GPS signal processing circuit is able to determine the coordinates
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`of its own position by processing signals received from satellites and communicate these
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`coordinates to a location centre associated with the network. One example of a remote
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`positioning solution is the method taught in U.S. Pat. No. 5,051,741 claiming priority of Mar.
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`27, 1990 in which the mobile phone is paged and caused to transmit a response which is
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`processed by communication stations such as time-of-arrival measurement units associated
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`with the network of master stations or base stations.
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`This remote positioning method has the advantage that the position of the mobile phone can
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`be determined by making use of existing signalling between the mobile phone and the
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`network without requiring any changes to the mobile phone, which would increase its cost.
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`The generic network-based, remote-positioning architecture method of U.S. Pat. No.
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`5,051,741 may make use of time of arrival methods or phase difference calculations to
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`increase the resolution of the area or sector within which the mobile phone is located.
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`While the location of the mobile phone itself is a good indication of the present location of
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`the person carrying the mobile phone, an improvement would be a means to lock the mobile
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`phone to the child, such that use of the mobile phone positioning technologies would then
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`determine the position of the child.
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`In addition to these concerns about the failures of existing mobile communications
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`technology to provide an improved and more secure method of instant communication
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`between a parent and a young child, and the means to determine the position of the child,
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`there is additional concern that the battery of the communicator may drain its power without
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`the parent knowing, or may be removed, which would prevent the communicator from
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`receiving calls or dialling to the programmed fixed or mobile number to which the
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`communicator is linked.
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`In addition to these specific communication problem needs, there is a growing yet
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`unsubstantiated concern about the potentially harmful effect of electromagnetic radiation
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`from mobile phones upon the developing brains of young children. Within this context, there
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`is an opportunity to design a communication device for children, which positions the
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