Systems, methods and apparatus for transmitting data over a voice channel of a wireless telephone network
View Patent ↗The various embodiments described herein generally provide apparatus, systems and methods which facilitate the transmission of data between a client device and a remote device over a wireless telephone network. More particularly, data from a client device is modulated into an audio signal and transmitted to a wireless telephone. The wireless telephone receives the audio signal and places a phone call to a remote device over a wireless telephone network. During the phone call, the wireless telephone transmits the audio signal across a voice channel of the wireless telephone network to the remote device. The remote device receives and decodes the audio signal to extract the transmitted data.
1. A method for transmitting data from a client device to a remote device over a wireless telephone network, the method comprising:
modulating data from a client device into an audio signal for transmission across a voice channel of a wireless telephone network, the data including diagnostic information regarding the client device and at least one other device separate from the client device;
transmitting the audio signal from the client device to a wireless telephone; and
transmitting the audio signal from the wireless telephone to a remote device over the wireless telephone network.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein modulating the data further comprises:
modulating the data into an audio signal having characteristics of human speech.
3. The method of claim 2 , wherein modulating the data into an audio signal further comprises:
forming at least one packet from the audio signal, wherein a size of the at least one packet is selected to correspond with a size of a frame utilized by the wireless telephone network.
4. The method of claim 3 , further comprising:
receiving the at least one packet at the remote device;
demodulating the audio signal of the at least one packet at the remote device to extract the data; and
processing the extracted data.
5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the data comprises ordering information, and wherein processing the extracted data further comprises:
generating a bill for a user of the client device based on the ordering information.
6. The method of claim 1 , wherein transmitting the audio signal from the client device to a wireless telephone further comprises:
transmitting the audio signal from the client device to the wireless telephone over a wireless communication link.
7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one other device separate from the client device includes a display device.
8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one other device separate from the client device includes a satellite antenna device.
9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one other device separate from the client device includes a weather collection device.
10. A call processing system comprising: an interface module configured to receive a phone call, the phone call sent through a wireless telephone network from a wireless telephone coupled to a client device, the phone call including data modulated into an audio signal, the audio signal having characteristics of human speech and the data including diagnostic information regarding the client device and at least one other device separate from the client device, the diagnostic information related to an equipment failure; a decoder communicatively coupled to the interface module and configured to parse the audio signal to extract the data and configured to convert the data into a digital format; and a processor communicatively coupled to the decoder and configured to associate the digital format data with stored information regarding the client device.
11. The call processing system of claim 10 , wherein:
the client device comprises an entertainment device;
the data includes video ordering information; and
the processor is configured to generate a bill for a user of the client device based on the video ordering information.
12. The call processing system of claim 10 , wherein the processor is configured to generate second data for transmission to the client device, and wherein the interface module is configured to:
modulate the second data into a second audio signal, the second audio signal having characteristics of the human speech; and
transmit the second audio signal to the wireless telephone over the wireless telephone network, wherein the wireless telephone is further configured to transmit the second audio signal to the client device.