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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 07, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 06, 2003
Jerry Walter Malcolm, Austin, TX (US);
Nicholas James Noecker, Jr., Houston, TX (US);
Paul Stuart Williamson, Round Rock, TX (US);
Scott Lee Winters, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Provided is an apparatus and method for detecting a state of a device such as a meter or appliance and transmitting to a remote location a particular tone or tones corresponding to the detected state. The transmission is initiated either by a predetermined series of tones from the remote location to the apparatus or by changing conditions within the device. The claimed subject matter enables a service provider to detect a service outage, the scope of the outage and the resumption of service.
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