US 6,147,601 A
Electronic message delivery system utilizable in the monitoring of remote equipment and method of sameGeneral
US 6,147,601 A
Electronic message delivery system utilizable in the monitoring of remote equipment and method of same
Tech Center:
2600 Communications
Examiner:
Daryl Pope
Art Unit:
2687 Telemetry and Code Generation; Vehicles and System Alarms; Selective Communication; Dynamic Storage Systems; Mechanical parts of Disk Drives; Signal Processing and Control Processing in Disk Drives
Inventors:
DAVID SANDELMAN; DANIEL SHPRECHER
Assignee:
Priority:
01/09/99
Filed:
05/24/99
Granted:
11/14/00
Expiration:
05/24/19
Abstract
A system and method for monitoring remote equipment are provided. A sensor is in communication with a piece of remote equipment, and an interface unit, having a message generating mechanism, is connected to the sensor. A central computer server is in communication with the interface unit and is adapted to receive messages generated by the interface unit. When the sensor detects an exception condition in the piece of remote equipment, the interface unit generates an incoming exception message and forwards the message to the server. The server forwards at least one outgoing exception message to at least one predetermined user-defined communication device based on the incoming exception message. Multiple outgoing exception messages may be forwarded to multiple communication devices in accordance with a user-defined message profile, or a single outgoing exception message may be forwarded in response to receipt of multiple incoming exception messages. The message profile is remotely configurable by the user.