Patent ID: 8306478

Claim:
A method of reporting activity associated with a first user and implemented on a first cellphone comprising the steps of: (a) providing detection control options on the first cellphone, which reporting control options include: i. data reporting controls selectable by a user of said first cellphone for identifying reporting data to be reported for the first user; and ii. an option for enabling said data reporting temporarily for the first user during a specified monitoring period, which specified monitoring period lasts for a first designated duration; and iii. identification data for at least one second user designated by the first user to receive said data reporting for the first user; (b) receiving data specifying a monitoring period during which said first cellphone can communicate said reporting data for the first user; (c) processing said reporting data and causing at least selected portions of said reporting data to be communicated to a second cellphone identified for the at least one second user; (d) wherein said reporting data can be displayed within a selected portion of a graphical interface of said second cellphone of said at least one second user; wherein said detection control options authorize the second user to receive said reporting data over a first communications channel which is separate from a second communications channel used by the second cellphone to receive voice data signals.