Remote control communication system

• US 20100176915A1
• Filed: 01/12/2009
• Published: 07/15/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 01/12/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Michael J. Hayes
• Original Assignee: Michael J. Hayes
• Inventors: HAYES, Michael J.
• Application Number:
  US12/319,738
• Publication Number:
  US 20100176915A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/5.200
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 17/02 using a radio link

Abstract

The present invention relates to remote control communication system that uses electromagnetic waves to communicate with and send commands to operate receiving devices. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the remote control communication system relates to a cellular telephone device that has been equipped with the necessary hardware and software to allow a user of the cellular telephone to communicate with certain devices that can be located within a building or similar structure such that the communications act to control activate, deactivate, monitor, or control the operation of the interior devices through an interface that can use the electromagnetic waves to operate the controlled devices.

Claims

1. A remote control communication system comprising:

a remote communication device capable of transmitting a Bluetooth wireless signal;

a device to be controlled; and

a Bluetooth interface device capable of receiving the Bluetooth wireless signal and capable of interfacing with the device to be controlled such that at least one of a set of functions of the device to be controlled can be effected by the Bluetooth interface device.

2. The remote control communication system of claim 1 wherein the remote communication device can be used to communicate with the remote control communication system only after an authentication code has been communicated to, and accepted by, one of either the remote communication device or the remote control communication system.

3. The remote control communication system of claim 2 wherein the authentication code is at least one of either a letter, a word, a number, a punctuation mark, or a symbol.

4. The remote control communication system of claim 3 wherein the authentication code is communicated to the remote communication device by a user that enters the authentication code into a keyboard that is communicatively connected to the remote communication device.

5. The remote control communication system of claim 4 wherein one of either the remote communication device or the remote control communication system comprises a voice recognition technology.

6. The remote communication system of claim 5 wherein either the remote communication device or the remote communication system is capable of receiving a set of audio signals from a microphone.

7. The remote control communication system of claim 6 wherein the set of audio signals includes the authentication code that is communicated to at least one of either the remote communication device or the remote communication system by the user who speaks the authentication code into the microphone.

8. The remote communication system of claim 7 wherein the set of audio signals that includes the authentication code is received by the voice recognition technology that translates the audio signal into an authorization code input that is communicated to an authorization process that determines if the authorization code within the set of audio signals matches a preset authorization code that allows the user to communicate further with the remote communication system.

9. The remote control communication system of claim 8 comprising an operational process that allows the user to input at least one operation command into the remote communication device wherein the operation command is resolved into at least one operation command signal that is communicated to the Bluetooth interface device.

10. The remote control communication system of claim 9 wherein the at least one operation command signal is communicated wirelessly to the Bluetooth interface device.

11. The remote control communication system of claim 10 wherein the Bluetooth interface device is capable of communicating with the device to be controlled in a manner that controls at least one function of the device to be controlled.

12. The remote control communication system of claim 11 wherein the remote communication system comprises a first remote communication system and a second remote communication system, wherein the second remote communication system includes one of either all of a set of components that constitute the first remote communication system, a part of the set of components that constitute the first remote communication system, or a set of additional components that do not constitute the set of components that constitute the first remote communication system, and wherein the remote communication system is capable of communicating with the second remote communication system such that the when the first remote communication system has ascertained that the authorization code submitted by the user matches the preset authorization code of the first remote communication system, the user is permitted to communicate further with the second remote communication system.

13. A remote control communication system comprising:

a remote communication device capable of transmitting a Bluetooth wireless signal;

a device to be controlled; and

a Bluetooth interface device capable of receiving the Bluetooth wireless signal and wherein the Bluetooth interface device is capable of interfacing with the device to be controlled such that at least one of a set of functions of the device to be controlled can be effected by the Bluetooth interface device only after an authentication code has been communicated to, and accepted by, one of either the remote communication device or the remote control communication system.

14. The remote control communication system of claim 13 wherein the authentication code is at least one of either a letter, a word, a number, a punctuation mark, or a symbol.

15. The remote control communication system of claim 14 wherein the authentication code is communicated to the remote communication device by a user that enters the authentication code into a keyboard that is communicatively connected to the remote communication device.

16. The remote control communication system of claim 15 wherein one of either the remote communication device or the remote control communication system comprises a voice recognition technology and wherein either the remote communication device or the remote communication system is capable of receiving a set audio signals from a microphone.

17. The remote control communication system of claim 16 wherein the set of audio signals includes the authentication code that is communicated to at least one of either the remote communication device or the remote communication system by the user who speaks the authentication code into the microphone and wherein the voice recognition technology that translates the audio signal into an authorization code input that is communicated to an authorization process that determines if the authorization code within the set of audio signals matches a preset authorization code that allows the user to communicate further with the remote communication system.

18. The remote control communication system of claim 17 comprising an operational process that allows the user to input at least one operation command into the remote communication device wherein the operation command is resolved into at least one operation command signal that is communicated wirelessly to the Bluetooth interface device, and wherein the Bluetooth interface device is capable of communicating with the device to be controlled in a manner that controls at least one function of the device to be controlled.

19. The remote control communication system of claim 18 wherein the remote communication system comprises a first remote communication system and a second remote communication system, wherein the second remote communication system includes one of either all of a set of components that constitute the first remote communication system, a part of the set of components that constitute the first remote communication system, or a set of additional components that do not constitute the set of components that constitute the first remote communication system, and wherein the remote communication system is capable of communicating with the second remote communication system such that the when the first remote communication system has ascertained that the authorization code submitted by the user matches the preset authorization code of the first remote communication system, the user is permitted to communicate further with the second remote communication system.

20. A remote control communication system comprising:

a remote communication device capable of receiving a communication that includes an authentication code that can be communicated by a user to one of either the remote communication device or the remote control communication system;

wherein the authentication code is at least one of either a letter, a word, a number, a punctuation mark, or a symbol;

wherein either the remote communication device or the remote control communication system comprises a voice recognition technology;

wherein either the remote communication device or the remote communication system is capable of receiving a set audio signals from a microphone;

a device to be controlled; and

a Bluetooth interface device capable of receiving the Bluetooth wireless signal wherein the Bluetooth interface device is capable of interfacing with the device to be controlled such that at least one of a set of functions of the device to be controlled can be effected by the Bluetooth interface device only after the authentication code has been communicated to, and accepted by, one of either the remote communication device or the remote control communication system.

21. The remote control communication system of claim 20 wherein the authentication code is communicated to one of either the remote communication device or the remote communication system by the user that one of either enters the authentication code into a keyboard that is communicatively connected to the remote communication device or speaks the authentication code into the microphone to generate a set of audio signals that is communicated to the voice recognition technology for translation of the audio signal into an authorization code input that is communicated to an authorization process that determines if the authorization code within the set of audio signals matches a preset authorization code that allows the user to communicate further with the remote communication system.

22. The remote control communication system of claim 21 wherein the remote communication device is a cellular telephone that includes the microphone wherein after the authentication code has been determined to match the preset authentication code, the user speaks an operation command into the microphone that results in a control an operation of the device to be controlled, and wherein the remote communication system uses the Bluetooth interface device to control the operation of the device to be controlled.