Patent ID: 7474899

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving a message at a communicator from a remote sensing device, the message comprising application data that is unrelated to call control; encoding in a control message the received message comprising application data, an identifier of the communicator, and a trigger to invoke forwarding of the encoded message and the encoded trigger by a serving system of a telecommunications network, the trigger associated with a remote feature control request; transmitting the encoded control message to the serving system of the telecommunications network over a control channel, bypassing voice channels; detecting at the serving system of the telecommunications network the trigger in the encoded control message; identifying, based on the detected trigger, a second trigger active at the serving system of the telecommunications network; and in response to identifying the active second trigger, transmitting an origination request message over a communications channel to a central monitoring station, the origination request message including the trigger and the message comprising application specific data.