Telephonic communications – Supervisory or control line signaling – Substation originated
Reexamination Certificate
1998-05-26
2001-07-10
Woo, Stella (Department: 2643)
Telephonic communications
Supervisory or control line signaling
Substation originated
C379S038000, C379S037000, C340S539230, C340S693500
Reexamination Certificate
active
06259787
ABSTRACT:
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED PATENT APPLICATIONS
There are no patent applications filed by me related to this application.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
I. FIELD OF THE INVENTION
This invention is in the general fields of alarms and monitoring systems and equipment.
The invention is more particularly in the fields of silent alarms, emergency, and invalid monitoring.
The invention is even more particularly directed to the field of an alarm or monitoring device which is activated overtly, or covertly, by mere disturbing of an article.
II. DESCRIPTION OF THE PRIOR ART
There are many emergency alarm and monitoring systems, too numerous to detail here. All heretofore available emergency alarm and monitoring systems require installation of elaborate telephone or other equipment.
Additionally, all heretofore known or available alarm or monitoring systems required a reasonable degree of mental/physical coordination for the pressing of buttons, or the like
The present invention requires only a minute ability to contact, or move, an object in order to sound an alarm or monitor a location, give the location, and enable one at a distance from the location to know the location and obtain knowledge of activities at the location sending the alarm or being monitored. The manner in which the present invention works is that a telephone or the like is activated by means of an impact switch.
There is no prior art known to me in this latter described field. In that sense, there is no prior art.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
There are many uses for silent alarms and monitoring devices. Some examples of such uses are silent alarms in banks, convenience stores, and the like; home uses for signaling the presence of an intruder, or the like; home and health care uses for signaling an emergency or other need. There are numerous other examples.
Heretofore systems for satisfying these needs all require expensive installation of equipment and they all require that a person activating the device must have some reasonable muscular ability and coordination.
Frequently the ability to be unnoticed in sending an alarm is important. For example, in banks, convenience stores, service stations, etc. the triggering of an alarm may well be easily detected by an alert intruder.
I have found that even the most severely handicapped quadriplegics can generally move their heads slightly, or make other simple movements. Likewise, persons under observation—even life threatening observation—who cannot noticeably activate an alarm, must, without suspicion, take certain activities, such as open a cash drawer, as may be demanded by an intruder.
I have studied this situation and all of the previously available equipment and systems. Nothing solves the problems outlined.
I have now conceived and developed what I believe to be the ultimate solution to the problems outlined above.
I have accomplished this by activating a cordless telephone or the like by means of an impact activated electrical switch which switches a cordless telephone handset or the like on. The handset can be located in any common object such as a hollowed out book, a hollow ball, a package, or most any other object. The user of this device has merely to knock the object off a table or shelf, or in some other manner jar it to cause the cordless handset or the like to be activated by means of the action of the impact switch in response to the jarring. The moment the handset is turned on, a speed dialer automatically dials to dial a pre-selected number. The number dialed can be any number within the capabilities of the dialer. For example, the number can be 911 for contact to a government emergency operator. The number can be to a monitoring service, or a personal number of any kind. The number can, also, be to an organization system number such as a nursing station in a hospital or nursing home.
Preferably, the receiving telephone will have caller identification capability so that the phone number and location of the activated phone can be immediately identified.
The cordless phone will remain activated until it is reset (turned off). Thus, it will be possible that any noise in the location of the handset may be heard through the receiving telephone.
I have used, and will use, the terms “cordless telephone ”, “cordless phone” “cordless phone handset” and the like. It will be understood by those skilled in the art throughout this patent application that “cellular telephones”, “pagers”, and other devices, the equivalent of the specific devices described and illustrated, are intended to be included.
It is an object of this invention to provide a method for incapacitated persons to give notice that they require attention.
It is another object of this invention to provide an emergency notification system which will not be recognized as being activated by persons in the area when activated.
Another object of this invention is to provide a monitoring system by which persons can give notice of an emergency or other requirement without the necessity of speaking.
Another object of this invention is to provide an impact operated telephone activation method and apparatus.
Another object of this invention is to provide a means of communication by telephone or the like between severely handicapped persons and other persons.
The foregoing and other objects and advantages of this invention will become clear to those skilled in the art upon reading the description of a preferred embodiment, which follows, in conjunction with a review of the appended drawings.
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