Patent ID: 7945207
Filing Date: 2011-05-17
Classification: H04M,H04Q,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for facilitating communications between monitoring and monitored devices, the method comprising the acts of: establishing, by a mobile station, a voice communication link with a monitoring device via a wide area network; receiving, by the mobile station, a request for a data communication link with a monitored device; establishing, by the mobile station, the data communication link with the monitored device, the data communication link being a short-range wireless communication link; and forwarding, by the mobile station, data between the monitoring and monitored devices; wherein the monitoring and monitored devices communicate with each other via the mobile station, wherein the mobile station acts as a gateway between the monitoring device and the monitored device, and wherein data received from the monitored device is forwarded to the monitoring device via a wireless control channel.