METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING AVAILABILITY OF A REMOTE PARTY BASED ON INTERACTION WITH COUPLED DEVICES

摘要

A method or system of determining availability of a remote party can include a communication device enabled and authorized to monitor a remote appliance belonging to the remote party and a processor coupled to the communication device or the remote appliance The system can monitor the remote appliance for a predetermined set of activities indicative of availability or unavailability of the remote party when the communication device is attempting to communicate with the remote party, analyze the predetermined set of activities, and notify the communication device of the unavailability of the remote party if the predetermined set of activities match a stored set of activities. The system can prevent or enable a call or an alert if the predetermined set of activities match or fail to match the stored set of activities.