Patent ID: 7839279

Claim:
An apparatus to provide an always-on virtual monitor, alert, control, and share (MACS) device comprising: a communications component to establish an intermittent connection to a remote real sensor, monitor or device (SMD) and to receive intermittent updates from the SMD, the always-on virtual MACS device being a virtual representation of the SMD; a presentation layer to enable a user to interface with the always-on virtual MACS device, the always-on virtual MACS device providing historical and most current data regardless of a status of the real SMD; a control function to receive a command from the user and to control the SMD by sending the command to the SMD through the virtual MACS device, wherein if the SMD is not connected with the communications component when the command is received, the control function to store the command and to automatically send the command to the SMD once the intermittent connection is established; and an intelligent notification engine to enable automatic notification of recipients, wherein the intelligent notification engine associates a data security rating with a notification, and wherein how the intelligent notification engine sends the notification to the recipients is based on the security rating.