METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR MOBILE UNITS WITH LOCAL ACTION AND REMEDIATION

• US 20100113005A1
• Filed: 10/31/2008
• Published: 05/06/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/31/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Symbol Technologies, Inc. (Zebra Technologies Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Symbol Technologies, Inc. (Zebra Technologies Corporation)
• Inventors: Cowan, Paul, Herrod, Allan
• Application Number:
  US12/263,265
• Publication Number:
  US 20100113005A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/423
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/245 from a network towards a terminal

Abstract

A remediation system employs local and autonomous conditions within the mobile unit itself. A method for performing remediation for a plurality of mobile units generally includes determining a first set of remediations, wherein each remediation includes a condition for determining whether a remediation is necessary for one of the mobile units, and an action for addressing the condition. The system may determine a second set of remediations, and providing the second set of remediations to the mobile units.

Claims

1. A method for performing remediation for a plurality of mobile units, the method comprising:

determining a first set of remediations, each remediation comprising a condition for determining whether a remediation is necessary for one of the mobile units, and an action for addressing the condition;

determining a second set of remediations; and

providing the second set of remediations to the mobile units.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the second set of remediations comprises a subset of the first set of remediations.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising transmitting the second set of remediations to the mobile units over a network.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the network is a wireless network.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining, within a first mobile unit, that a first condition within the second set of remediations has occurred; and

performing a first action associated with the first condition within the second set of remediations.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

interrogating a first mobile unit to determine whether a first condition within the first set of remediations, but not within the second set of remediations, has occurred;

remotely instructing the first mobile unit to perform a first action associated with the first condition.

7. The method of claim 1, further including sending a confirmation that a remediation has been successfully performed.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the first set of remediations are associated with a mobile communications device.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the first set of remediations are associated with a mobile computing device.

10. A method for managing remediation of a plurality of mobile units, comprising:

providing a set of remediations;

partitioning the set of remediations into local remediations and remote remediations;

providing the local remediations within the mobile units;

providing the remote remediations within a server physically separated from the mobile units;

remediating a state detected when a condition at the mobile units is met based on the set of remediations.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the local remediations are transmitted to the mobile units via a network.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the set of remediations are associated with a mobile telephone device.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein each remediation comprises a condition and an action.

14. The method of claim 13, where each condition and each action is configurable by a user.

15. A mobile unit management system comprising:

a central server having a first set of remediations stored therein;

a mobile unit having a second set of remediations stored therein;

wherein each of the first and second set of remediations includes a configurable condition and a configurable action; and

wherein, when a particular configurable action is experienced by the mobile unit, a remediation is applied autonomously and locally within the mobile unit based on whether the particular configurable action is within the second set of remediations.

16. The mobile unit management system of claim 15, wherein the second set of remediations is a subset of the first set of remediations.

17. The mobile unit management system of claim 15, wherein the configurable condition comprises Boolean combinations of other conditions.

18. The mobile unit management system of claim 15, wherein the mobile unit is configured to send a confirmation message to the central server indicative of the success of the remediation.