INTERACTIVE UNIFIED ACCESS AND CONTROL OF MOBILE DEVICES

• US 20090248820A1
• Filed: 03/25/2009
• Published: 10/01/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/25/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Intelligent Mechatronic Systems Inc. (Trak Global Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Intelligent Mechatronic Systems Inc. (Trak Global Group Ltd.)
• Inventors: Miners, William Ben, Basir, Otman A.
• Application Number:
  US12/411,265
• Publication Number:
  US 20090248820A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/143 Touch sensitive instrument input devices
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/1438 Touch screens
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/55 Remote control arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/589 Wireless data transfers
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/00 Instruments specially adapted for vehicles; Arrangement of instruments in or on vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/10 Input arrangements, i.e. from user to vehicle, associated with vehicle functions or specially adapted therefor
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/60 Instruments characterised by their location or relative disposition in or on vehicles arrangements of lighting devices on dashboards B60Q3/10
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/80 Arrangements for controlling instruments
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/85 Arrangements for transferring vehicle- or driver-related data
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/6075 adapted for handsfree use in a vehicle H04M1/6058 takes precedence; arrangements for holding telephones in a vehicle B60R11/0241
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72436 for text messaging, e.g. short messaging services [SMS] or e-mails
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/02 including a Bluetooth interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/74 with voice recognition means voice activated dialling H04M1/271; voice recognition algorithms G10L15/00

Abstract

An interface between mobile devices and computing devices, such as a PC or an in-vehicle system permits a user to use the better user interface of the computing device to access and control the operation of the mobile device.

Claims

1. A method of accessing information via a mobile device including the steps of:

a) establishing a connection with the mobile device;

b) receiving text of an email from the mobile device via the connection;

c) detecting the presence of an attachment to the email;

d) requesting extracted text of the attachment; and

e) receiving the extracted text of the attachment.

2. The method of claim 1 further including the step of modifying the information on the mobile device.

3. The method of claim 1 further including the step of:

f) extracting the extracted text from the attachment in response to said step d).

4. The method of claim 3 wherein said step f) is performed by the mobile device.

5. The method of claim 1 further including the step of converting the extracted text to audible speech and presenting that audible speech audibly.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the extracted text of the attachment is received via the connection.

7. A computer readable medium storing a computer program which when executed by a processor performs the steps of:

a) receiving an email including a message and an attachment;

b) receiving a request for the email;

c) transmitting the message of the email in response to said step b);

d) extracting text from the attachment; and

e) transmitting the extracted text from the attachment.

8. The computer readable medium of claim 7 wherein the computer program, when executed by a processor, further performs the steps of:

f) receiving a request for extracted text of the attachment; and

wherein said step e) is performed in response to said step d).

9. A mobile device comprising:

a processor; and

a computer readable medium storing instructions, which when executed by the processor, extracts text from an attachment to an email and transmits the extracted text in response to a request from a computing device having a connection to the mobile device.

10. The mobile device of claim 9 wherein the mobile device changes modes upon detection of the presence of the computing device, wherein changing modes includes changing call handling features.

11. The mobile device of claim 10 wherein changing call handling features includes changing ring and/or vibrating responses to incoming calls or emails.

12. A method of operating a mobile device including the steps of:

a) establishing a connection with a computing device;

b) detecting the presence of the computing device based upon the connection;

c) changing call handling modes based upon said step b).

13. The method of claim 12 wherein said step c) further includes the step of disabling ringing for incoming calls in response to said step b).

14. The method of claim 12 further including the step of returning the call handling mode based up no longer detecting the presence of the computer device.