System And Method For Regulating Data Messaging Between A Wireless Device And A Mobile Communication Device Using Short Message Service

• US 20090149205A1
• Filed: 12/10/2008
• Published: 06/11/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/10/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Zipit Wireless, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Zipit Wireless, Inc.
• Inventors: Heredia, Rafael, Crowe, Michael Wayne
• Application Number:
  US12/332,056
• Publication Number:
  US 20090149205A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/466
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/04 Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/663 Preventing unauthorised calls to a telephone set
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/68 Circuit arrangements for preventing eavesdropping
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72436 for text messaging, e.g. short messaging services [SMS] or e-mails
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/14 Short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD]

Abstract

A computer network communication device enables a parent/administrator to control data communication sessions between the device and a mobile communication device that may be accessed through a cellular network. The computer network communication device includes a device identifier stored in the device, a communication module configured to download rules corresponding to the device identifier from a control site remote from the device, and a processor configured to process data messages received from other computer network communication devices over a computer network with reference to the downloaded rules.

Claims

1. A mobile computer network communication device that regulates an instant message session with a mobile telephone comprising:

an input device that generates alphanumeric data in response to manipulation of the input device;

a display that generates visible indicia;

a memory for storing data;

a processor that executes an instant messaging (IM) application program that generates data messages in a Short Message Service (SMS) protocol in response to a recipient identifier retrieved from memory corresponding to a cellular telephone number; and

a communication module that communicates the data messages in the SMS protocol with a SMS server over a computer communication network.

2. The mobile computer network communication device of claim 1, the processor searching a plurality of rules stored in the device to detect rules corresponding to the cellular telephone number.

4. The mobile computer network communication device of claim 1, the processor executing the IM application program blocking display of a buddy identifier in a buddy list in response to the processor detecting a rule in a plurality of rules downloaded from a control site corresponding to the buddy identifier.

3. The mobile computer network communication device of claim 3, the processor executing the IM application program terminating generation of the data messages in the SMS protocol in response to a block rule in the plurality of rules corresponding to the cellular telephone number.

5. A system for regulating a data communication session with a mobile computer network communication device comprising:

a mobile computer network communication device that communicates data messages generated in a Short Message Service (SMS) server protocol with a SMS server;

a SMS server that receives the data messages in the SMS server protocol and transmits SMS messages over a computer communication network;

a control server that stores rules for operation of the computer network communication device; and

a computer network communication device coupled to the SMS server and the control server through the computer communication network, the computer network communication device processing data messages received from the mobile computer network communication device with reference to rules downloaded from the control server that correspond to the mobile computer network communication device.

6. The system of claim 5 wherein the mobile computer network communication device is a cellular telephone.

7. The system of claim 5 wherein the computer network communication device is a two-way communication device.

8. The system of claim 7 wherein the two-way communication device is an instant messaging (IM) terminal.

9. The system of claim 8, the IM terminal further comprising:

an input device that generates alphanumeric data in response to manipulation of the input device;

a display that generates visible indicia;

a memory for storing data;

a processor that executes an IM application program that generates data messages in the SMS protocol in response to a recipient identifier retrieved from memory corresponding to a cellular telephone number; and

a communication module that communicates the data messages in the SMS protocol with the SMS server over the computer communication network.

10. The system of claim 9, the processor of the IM terminal searching a plurality of rules downloaded from the control server to detect rules corresponding to the cellular telephone number.

11. The system of claim 10, the processor executing the IM application program terminating generation of the data messages in the SMS protocol in response to a block rule in the plurality of rules corresponding to the cellular telephone number.

12. The system of claim 11, the processor executing the IM application program blocking display of a buddy identifier in a buddy list in response to the processor detecting a rule in a plurality of rules downloaded from the control site corresponding to the buddy identifier.

13. The system of claim 5 wherein the computer network communication device is a one-way communication device.

14. The system of claim 13 wherein the one-way communication device is a LCD photo frame.

15. A computer network communication device comprising:

a device identifier stored in the device;

a communication module configured to download rules corresponding to the device identifier from a control site remote from the device; and

a processor configured to process data messages received from other computer network communication devices over a computer network with reference to the downloaded rules.

16. The device of claim 15 wherein the processor is configured to process data messages generated in a Short Message Service (SMS) server protocol.

17. The device of claim 15 wherein the device is a two-way communication device.

18. The device of claim 17 wherein the two-way communication device is an instant messaging (IM) terminal.

19. The device of claim 18, the IM terminal further comprising:

an input device that generates alphanumeric data in response to manipulation of the input device;

a display that generates visible indicia; and

the processor is further configured to execute an IM application program that generates data messages in the SMS protocol in response to a recipient identifier retrieved from memory corresponding to a cellular telephone number; and

the communication module is further configured to communicate the data messages in the SMS protocol with a SMS server over the computer communication network.

20. The device of claim 15 wherein the computer network communication device is a one-way communication device.