Patent ID: 8050631

Claim:
A method of monitoring events associated with a first user comprising the steps of: (a) enabling detection control options on a first cellphone, which reporting control options include: i. target event controls selectable by a user of said first cellphone for identifying target events to be detected for the first user; and ii. an option for enabling said target events to be detected for the first user during a specified monitoring period, which specified monitoring period begins at a first designated time and lasts for a first designated duration; and iii. identification data for at least one second user designated by the first user to receive reports on selected ones of said detected target events; (b) causing said first cellphone to communicate said target events for the first user during said specified period to an Internet server computing system; (c) processing said target events at said Internet server computing system to identify a selected event; (d) reporting on said selected event by generating an alert from the Internet server computing system communicated to a second cellphone of said at least one second user; wherein said detection control options permit the second user to receive alerts for said selected events over a first communications channel which is separate from a second communications channel used by the second cellphone to receive voice data signals.