Reporting the state of an apparatus to a remote computer patented

so ... mark lottor's your-machine-room-is-melting thermo+modem circa 1990
is what? prior art?

as is every cron job running quota checks & mailing the results to
system users.

Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine wrote:

so ... mark lottor's your-machine-room-is-melting thermo+modem circa 1990
is what? prior art?

Or the first project that I was senior systems analyst, back in 1979,
all published and everything -- remote sensing in farmers' fields via
satellite and X.25. (Messages contained type=value tuples, not XML.)

Although I wanted to upgrade the PE 7/32s to Unix when that operating
system became more stable :wink: This newfangled TCP/IP was starting to
look more interesting about then, too.... Merit staff mailed me the
paper, as they weren't accessible to us on-line yet.

Seems to me like a company of undergraduates without any real-time
systems experience. And a patent office of ignorant monkeys.

I believe it is time to file the patent on a process for the induction of Oxygen for the purpose of converting molecular structure to energy resulting in the expulsion of CO2.