Flight mode control method and mobile terminal

• US 10,027,794 B2
• Filed: 03/23/2016
• Issued: 07/17/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 04/30/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corporation Limited
• Original Assignee: Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corporation Limited
• Inventors: Liu, Hai
• Primary Examiner(s): Arevalo, Joseph
• Application Number:
  US15/323,436
• Publication Number:
  US 20170163794A1
• Time in Patent Office: 846 Days
• Field of Search: 455419, 4554141, 4554261, 4554041, 455466, 4554561, 4554565, 455418, 455436, 4554566, 455421, 4554353
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72406 by software upgrading or downloading
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72463 to restrict the functionality of the device
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 19/04 the ringing-current being generated at the substations
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/04 based on user or terminal location or mobility data, e.g. moving direction, speed
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/32 Release of transport tunnels

Abstract

A method of controlling a flight mode is proposed. The method includes: receiving a flight mode trigger command when a mobile terminal is connected to the 2G network in data transmission and voice call; sending a voice call interruption command to a modem in the mobile terminal in response to the flight mode trigger command so as to interrupt the voice call with the modem; receiving a voice call interruption message sent by the modem and sending a request to the modem to deactivate a PDP; and sending a flight mode enabling command to the modem upon receiving a message from the modem notifying the PDP is successful deactivated, so that the modem enables a flight mode of the mobile terminal.

Claims

1. A method of controlling a flight mode, comprising:

obtaining a geographical location of the mobile terminal;

determining whether the geographical location is within a predetermined airport location;

if the mobile terminal is within the predetermined airport location, receiving a flight mode trigger command when a mobile terminal is connected to a second generation (2G) network in data transmission and voice call;

sending a voice call interruption command to a modulator and demodulator (modem) in the mobile terminal in response to the flight mode trigger command so as to interrupt the voice call with the modem;

receiving a voice call interruption message sent by the modem and sending a request to the modem to deactivate a packet data protocol (PDP); and

sending a flight mode enabling command to the modem upon receiving a message from the modem notifying the PDP is successful deactivated, so that the modem enables a flight mode of the mobile terminal.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein an operating system installed in the mobile terminal is Android operating system or any systems developed based on the Android operating system.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein a step of sending the voice call interruption command to the modulator and demodulator (modem) in the mobile terminal in response to the flight mode trigger command so as to interrupt the voice call with the modem, comprises:

prompting to input a voice call turn-off command in response to the flight mode trigger command;

receiving the voice call turn-off command and sending the voice call interruption command to the modem in the mobile terminal in response to the voice call turn-off command so as to interrupt the voice call with the modem.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein a step of receiving the voice call interruption message sent by the modem and sending the request to the modem to deactivate the packet data protocol (PDP), comprises:

receiving the voice call interruption message sent by the modem;

prompting to input a network disabling command;

receiving the input network disabling command and sending the request to the modem to deactivate the PDP in response to the network disabling command.

5. A mobile terminal comprising:

an obtaining unit, configured to obtain a geographical location of the mobile terminal;

a comparison unit, configured to determine whether the geographical location is within a predetermined airport location;

a first receiving unit, configured to receive a flight mode trigger command when the mobile terminal accesses to a 2G network in data and voice call upon a condition that the mobile terminal is within the predetermined airport location;

a responding unit, configured to send a voice call interruption command to a modulator and demodulator (modem) in the mobile terminal to interrupt a voice call with the modem in response to the flight mode trigger command;

a second receiving unit, configured to receive a voice call interruption message from the modem and to send a request to the modem to deactivate a packet data protocol (PDP); and

a transmitting unit, configured to send a flight mode enabling command to the modem so that the modem enables a flight mode of the mobile terminal upon receiving the message from the modem notifying that the PDP is successfully deactivated.

6. The mobile terminal of claim 5, wherein an operating system installed in the mobile terminal is Android operating system or any systems developed based on the Android operating system.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 5, wherein the responding unit comprises:

a first responding sub-unit, configured to prompt at inputting a voice call turn-off command in response to the flight mode trigger command; and

a second responding sub-unit, configured to send the voice call interruption command to the modem in the mobile terminal to interrupt the occupied voice call with the modem in response to the voice call turn-off command.

8. The mobile terminal of claim 5, wherein the second receiving unit comprises:

a first receiving sub-unit, configured to receive the voice call interruption message sent by the modem;

a prompting sub-unit, configured to prompt to input a network disabling command; and

a second receiving sub-unit, configured to receive the network disabling command and to send a request of deactivating the PDP to the modem in response to the network disabling command.

9. A mobile terminal comprising an input device, an output device, a memory, and a processor, the processor executing program instructions stored in the memory to perform operations of:

obtaining a geographical location of the mobile terminal;

determining whether the geographical location is within a predetermined airport location;

if the mobile terminal is within the predetermined airport location, receiving a flight mode trigger command when a mobile terminal is connected to a second generation (2G) network in data transmission and voice call;

sending, with the output device, a voice call interruption command to a modulator and demodulator (modem) in the mobile terminal in response to the flight mode trigger command so as to interrupt a voice call with the modem;

receiving, with the input device, a voice call interruption message sent by the modem and sending, with the output device, a request to the modem to deactivate a packet data protocol (PDP); and

sending, with the output device, a flight mode enabling command to the modem upon receiving a message from the modem notifying the PDP is successful deactivated, so that the modem enables a flight mode of the mobile terminal.

10. The mobile terminal of claim 9, wherein an operating system installed in the mobile terminal is Android operating system or any systems developed based on the Android operating system.

11. The mobile terminal of claim 9, wherein when the processor executes the program instructions to perform the operation of sending the voice call interruption command to the modulator and demodulator (modem) in the mobile terminal in response to the flight mode trigger command so as to interrupt the voice call with the modem, the processor executes the program instructions to perform operations of:

prompting to input a voice call turn-off command in response to the flight mode trigger command;

receiving the voice call turn-off command with the input device, and sending, with the output device, the voice call interruption command to the modem in the mobile terminal in response to the voice call turn-off command so as to interrupt the voice call with the modem.

12. The mobile terminal of claim 9, wherein when the processor executes the program instructions to perform the operation of receiving the voice call interruption message sent by the modem and sending the request to the modem to deactivate the packet data protocol (PDP), the processor executes the program instructions to perform operations of:

receiving the voice call interruption message sent by the modem with the input device;

prompting to input a network disabling command;

receiving the input network disabling command with the input device, and sending the request to the modem to deactivate the PDP with the output device in response to the network disabling command.