Method of control of a wireless communication unit and a wireless communication unit

• US 20070105541A1
• Filed: 01/24/2005
• Published: 05/10/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 01/23/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Motorola, Inc. (Motorola Solutions, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Motorola, Inc. (Motorola Solutions, Inc.)
• Inventors: Pince, Julien, Abdesselem, Ouelid, Gasparini, Stephane
• Application Number:
  US10/596,469
• Publication Number:
  US 20070105541A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/419
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/18 Commands or executable codes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/245 from a network towards a terminal

Abstract

A method of remote control of a wireless communication unit (300) operating in a communication network (100) having the steps of creating a message (202) to be delivered to said wireless communication unit (300) by a Content Provider (104); creating at least one instruction (204) for said wireless communication unit (300) by said Content Provider (104); delivering (210) said message and said instruction to said wireless communication unit (300); processing (222) said instruction by said wireless communication unit.

Claims

1. A method of remote control of a wireless communication unit operating in a communications network comprising:

a Content Provider creating a message in a stream having a parameter that allows for identification of the Content Provider and for identification of a content of the message to be delivered to said wireless communication unit;

said Content Provider creating at least one instruction for said wireless communication unit;

delivering said message and said instruction to said wireless communication unit;

said wireless communication unit processing aid instruction.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein said instruction is contained in at least one predefined field of a protocol used for delivering said message.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein said instruction is embedded in said message.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein said instruction is embedded in said message using a Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) method.

5. The method according to claim 3, wherein said instruction is embedded as a text in a textual portion of the message.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein said instruction identifies a parameter that allows for identification of the Content Provider and for identification of the content of the message and an action to be executed.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein the action comprises erasing from a memory of said wireless communication unit previous messages from the Content Provider having the content.

8. The method according to claim 6, wherein the action comprises rendering of said message on said wireless communication unit.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein in said step of rendering at least one element of a Man Machine Interface of said wireless communication unit is replaced with a second element and said second element is delivered with said message.

10. The method according to claim 6, further characterized by a Multimedia Message Service Center (MMSC) processing said instruction before delivering said message and said instruction to the wireless communication unit.

11. The method according to claim 10, wherein the processing comprises erasing from a memory of said MMSC previous messages addressed to said communication unit from the Content Provider having the content.

12. The method according to claim 1, comprising a step of authentication and authorization of the Content Provider.

13. The method according to claim 1, wherein retrieval of the message and processing of the instruction is performed automatically.

14. The method according to claim 1, wherein the message is retrieved automatically and the instruction is processed after confirmation by a user of said wireless communication unit.

15. The method according to claim 1, wherein the user is prompted to retrieve the message and the instruction is processed by said wireless communication unit automatically after said retrieval.

16. The method according to claim 1, wherein the user is prompted to retrieve the message and the instruction is processed after confirmation by a user of said wireless communication unit.

17. The method according to claim 1, wherein said message is a Multimedia Message Service (MMS) message.

18. The method according to claim 17, wherein said instruction is contained in two predefined fields of said MMNS message, wherein a first field indicates the stream and second field indicates an action.

19-22. -22. (canceled)

23. A wireless communication unit comprising:

a receiver section for receiving messages over-the-air in a stream having a parameter that allows for identification of a Content Provider that originated the messages and for identification of a content of the messages;

a communication interface adapted to connect to an external device; and

a processor operably coupled to said receiver section and to said communication interface for processing said message,

the wireless communication unit characterised by a scanning function to detect and extract an instruction accompanying said message and to transfer said instruction to the processor.

24. The wireless communication unit according to claim 23, wherein said processor, upon processing said instruction, is adapted to erase from a memory of said wireless communication unit previous messages from the Content Provider having the same content as the message.

25. The wireless communication unit according to claim 24, wherein said memory is built-in in the wireless communication unit.

26. The wireless communication unit according to claim 23 further comprising:

a Man Machine Interface (MMI),

wherein said processor, upon processing said instruction, is adapted to render said message on said MMI.

27. The wireless communication unit according to claim 23 wherein said communication interface is adapted to connect to said external device using a short-range wireless connection.

28-36. -36. (canceled)