Patent ID: 8509212

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving a request from a user of a mobile device to track the mobile device; generating, in response to the request, a control signal to remotely activate an application on the mobile device for controlling an audio interface or an imaging interface of the mobile device to capture a signal from the audio interface or the imaging interface; receiving one or more signals captured from the audio interface or the imaging interface of the mobile device; determining to present the received one or more signals captured from the audio interface or the imaging interface of the mobile device to the user of the mobile device via a user communication interface; receiving another request from the user of the mobile device to deactivate the mobile device based on the one or more signals captured from the audio interface or the imaging interface of the mobile device that are presented to the user of the mobile device via the user communication interface; generating another control signal, wherein the other control signal at least causes a memory of the mobile device to be erased; determining to transmit the other control signal to the mobile device; receiving an image of the memory before the memory is erased in response to the other control signal; and storing the image to a networked repository.