Patent ID: 8537990

Claim:
A communications device comprising: a telephone having public switched telephone network connectability, the telephone comprising: a base unit; a handset having a microphone and a speaker operatively positioned therein and being capable of operatively interacting with the base unit; a first cord having two ends, the handset being operatively connected to one of the two ends of the first cord and the other of the two ends being operatively connected to the base unit; and a second cord having two ends, one end being operatively connectable to the base unit and the other end of the second cord being operatively connectable to a public switched telephone network telephone jack; and a web server operatively resident in the telephone wherein the web server further comprises: local permanent storage capability for storing information pertaining to the operation of the device or its monitored individual(s), some or all of which can be retracted remotely by remote interested parties, the locally stored information being capable of being backed up to a remote computer or a secondary server to facilitate its recovery if the telephone hardware should fail or otherwise become unusable to the caregiver or the monitored individual, or simply to facilitate retrieval of that information without requiring an explicit connection from the interested parties' browsing client to the monitored individual's telephone's web server when such a connection is not available.