Controlling mobile messaging remotely

• US 20080003996A1
• Filed: 06/30/2006
• Published: 01/03/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Inventors: Strandell, Toni, Tammi, Tuomas
• Application Number:
  US11/477,762
• Publication Number:
  US 20080003996A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/420
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/66 Arrangements for connecting between networks having differing types of switching systems, e.g. gateways
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/125 involving control of end-device applications over a network

Abstract

The invention allows controlling mobile messaging remotely from a computing device. A wireless Internet connection is established from a mobile device to a gateway. Then, the established wireless Internet connection is monitored at the mobile device. If a messaging request is received via the monitored wireless Internet connection, then the mobile device is operated in response to the messaging request.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

establishing a wireless Internet connection from a mobile device to a gateway;

monitoring the established wireless Internet connection at the mobile device; and

operating the mobile device in response to a messaging request received via the monitored wireless Internet connection.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein operating the mobile device comprises:

operating the mobile device to send a message to a recipient indicated by the received messaging request via a mobile communication network.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein operating the mobile device comprises:

operating the mobile device to store a message received in the messaging request in the mobile device.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the message is a short message, a multimedia message or an email message.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the method is performed by a data-processing device controlled by a computer program embodied on a computer readable medium.

6. A mobile device, comprising:

a remote controller configured to establish a wireless Internet connection from the mobile device to a gateway, to monitor the established wireless Internet connection, and to operate the mobile device in response to a messaging request received via the monitored wireless Internet connection.

7. The mobile device according to claim 6, wherein the remote controller is configured to operate the mobile device to send a message to a recipient indicated by the received messaging request via a mobile communication network.

8. The mobile device according to claim 6, wherein the remote controller is configured to operate the mobile device to store a message received in the received messaging request in the mobile device.

9. A method comprising:

establishing at a gateway a wireless Internet connection with at least one mobile device;

assigning at the gateway a connection identifier to each mobile device in response to the establishment of the wireless Internet connection from the at least one mobile device;

receiving at the gateway a messaging request addressed to an assigned connection identifier; and

forwarding at the gateway the received messaging request from the gateway to the mobile device indicated by the assigned connection identifier.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein the messaging request comprises a connection address of a receiving mobile device.

11. The method according to claim 9, wherein:

assigning the connection identifier comprises assigning at the gateway a first connection identifier to a first mobile device and a second connection identifier to a second mobile device in response to an establishment of a wireless Internet connection from the mobile devices to the gateway;

receiving the messaging request comprises receiving at the gateway, from a web server, a messaging request addressed to the assigned second connection identifier; and

forwarding the received messaging request comprises forwarding the messaging request from the gateway to the second mobile device.

12. The method according to claim 11, further comprising:

receiving at the gateway, from the web server, a second messaging request addressed to the first connection identifier; and

forwarding the second messaging request from the gateway to the first mobile device indicated by the assigned first connection identifier.

13. The method according to claim 9, wherein the method is performed by a data-processing device controlled by a computer program embodied on a computer readable medium.

14. An apparatus comprising:

a gateway configured to establish a wireless Internet connection with at least one mobile device;

to assign a connection identifier to each mobile device in response to the establishment of the wireless Internet connection from the at least one mobile device to the gateway;

to receive a messaging request addressed to an assigned connection identifier; and

to forward the received messaging request to the mobile device indicated by the assigned connection identifier.

15. A method comprising:

receiving at a web server an access from a user operating a first mobile device;

generating at the web server a message destined to a second mobile device based on user instructions;

checking at the web server, from a gateway, whether the second mobile device has an active connection with the gateway;

sending, from the web server to the gateway, a messaging request addressed to a connection identifier assigned by the gateway to the second mobile device, when the second mobile device has an active connection with the gateway; and

sending, from the web server to the gateway, a messaging request addressed to a connection identifier assigned by the gateway to the first mobile device, when the second mobile device does not has an active connection with the gateway.

16. The method according to claim 15, wherein the method is performed by a data-processing device controlled by a computer program embodied on a computer readable medium.

17. An apparatus comprising:

a web server configured to receive an access from a user operating a first mobile device;

to generate a message destined to a second mobile device based on user instructions;

to check, from a gateway, whether the second mobile device has an active connection with the gateway;

to send to the gateway a messaging request addressed to a connection identifier assigned by the gateway to the second mobile device, when the second mobile device has an active connection with the gateway; and

to send to the gateway a messaging request addressed to a connection identifier assigned by the gateway to the first mobile device, when the second mobile device does not has an active connection with the gateway.