Using a mobile phone to control a personal computer
First Claim
1. A method, comprising:
- establishing a communication protocol between a mobile phone and a computing device; and
controlling the computing device via the mobile phone using the communication protocol.
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Abstract
Systems and methods are described for using a mobile phone to control a computing device. In one implementation, a communication protocol stack is established that includes a wireless layer, such as a Bluetooth stack, a communication layer that multiplexes the wireless layer into virtual channels, and an application adaptation layer by which the mobile phone controls and previews content from each of multiple applications on the computing device. The communication protocol stack dynamically maps mobile phone keys to computer keyboard messages for controlling the applications on the computing device. A data packet structure is established for communications between the mobile phone and the computing device via the communication protocol stack.
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20 Claims
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1. A method, comprising:
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establishing a communication protocol between a mobile phone and a computing device; and
controlling the computing device via the mobile phone using the communication protocol. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A system, comprising:
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a computing device;
a mobile phone communicatively coupled with the computing device;
a communication protocol stack in each of the computing device and the mobile phone, wherein the mobile phone controls each of multiple applications on the computing device via virtual channels of the communication protocol stack. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19)
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20. A system, comprising:
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means for communicating control data between a mobile phone and a computing device;
means for controlling each of multiple applications on the computing device via the control data from the mobile phone.
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