Patent ID: 8872624

Claim:
A programmable communicator device comprising: a programmable interface for establishing a wireless communication link with at least one monitored technical device, wherein the programmable interface is programmable by programming instructions received in wireless packet switched data messages; and a processing module for authenticating one or more wireless transmissions sent from a programming transmitter and received by the programmable communicator device by determining if at least one transmission contains a coded number; wherein the programmable communicator device is configured to use a memory to store at least one IP address included within at least one of the transmissions as one or more stored IP addresses if the processing module authenticates the at least one of the transmissions including the at least one IP address and the coded number by determining that the at least one of the transmissions includes the coded number, the one or more stored IP addresses being addresses to which the programmable communicator device is configured to and permitted to send outgoing wireless transmissions; wherein the programmable communicator device is configured to use an identity module for storing a unique identifier that is unique to the programmable communicator device; and wherein the one or more wireless transmissions from the programming transmitter comprises a General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), or other wireless packet switched data message; and wherein the programmable communicator device is configured to process data received through the programmable interface from the at least one monitored technical device in response to programming instructions received in an incoming wireless packet switched data message; and wherein the programmable communicator is configured to send the processed data by General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), or other wireless packet switched data message; and wherein the programmable communicator is configured to (1) communicate with a remote data monitoring device and/or (2) send data to and receive data from an Internet web page.