Patent ID: 8869240

Claim:
A monitoring system comprising a monitored device for transmitting diagnostic data, the monitored device including: a communication device including at least one of an input device and an output device, the output device for communicating a pairing instruction to an associated local submitter, the input device or receiving as input a pairing key provided by an associated local submitter in response to the pairing instruction; an activation module for connecting the monitoring system to an associated remote server; a pairing module in communication with the associated server and the communication device, the pairing module for receiving pairing information generated by the associated server before the communication device communicates the pairing instruction to the associated local submitter for forming a secure connection between the monitoring system and an associated servicing device via the associated server; a data push module for pushing diagnostic data for a monitored device of the monitoring system to the associated server to be relayed to the associated servicing device when the secure connection between the monitoring system and the associated servicing device has been made; and a processor for implementing the modules; wherein the associated local submitter is one of the associated servicing device and a user of the associated servicing device and the pairing module can receive the pairing key from the associated servicing device only when the associated servicing device is co-located with the monitored device of the monitoring system.