MOBILE TERMINAL AND CONTROL METHOD

• US 20120077545A1
• Filed: 01/13/2011
• Published: 03/29/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Pantech Corporation (Ideahub, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Pantech Corporation (Ideahub, Inc.)
• Inventors: NAM, Seung Woo, KIM, Tae Jong
• Application Number:
  US13/005,985
• Publication Number:
  US 20120077545A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/558
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/60 Subscription-based services using application servers or record carriers, e.g. SIM application toolkits
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 80/04 Network layer protocols, e.g. mobile IP [Internet Protocol]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/045 using private Base Stations, e.g. femto Base Stations, home Node B

Abstract

A mobile terminal includes a subscriber identification module (SIM) card unit to receive and store Internet Protocol (IP) device information including a local IP address of an IP device from a femtocell, and a control unit to transmit a control command to control the IP device using the local IP address.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal, comprising:

a subscriber identification module (SIM) card unit to receive and store Internet Protocol (IP) device information comprising a local IP address of an IP device from a femtocell; and

a control unit to transmit a control command to the femtocell, the control command to control the IP device using the local IP address of the IP device.

2. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the control unit transmits the control command for a position outside a coverage of the femtocell.

3. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the control unit transmits the control command through communication with the femtocell.

4. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the SIM card unit receives the IP device information from the femtocell through Short Message Service Point to Point (SMS-PP).

5. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein

the SIM card unit further stores an application toolkit, and

the control unit controls the information stored in the SIM card unit to be displayed using the application toolkit.

6. The mobile terminal device of claim 1, wherein

the IP device information further comprises control information of the IP device, and

the control unit transmits the control command using the control information of the IP device stored in the SIM card unit.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the SIM card unit updates the IP device information with updated IP device information received from the femtocell if a predetermined event occurs.

8. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein

the IP device information comprises a plurality of local IP addresses respectively corresponding to a plurality of IP devices, and

the control unit transmits the control command to control the IP device from among the plurality of IP devices according to a user selection.

9. A method for controlling an Internet Protocol (IP) device using a mobile terminal, comprising:

receiving IP device information comprising a local IP address of the IP device from a femtocell;

storing the IP device information in a subscriber identification module (SIM) card; and

controlling the IP device using the local IP address.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the mobile terminal controlling the IP device is located outside a coverage of the femtocell.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the IP device information is received by the mobile terminal through Short Message Service Point to Point (SMS-PP).

12. The method of claim 9, wherein controlling the IP device further comprises:

storing an application toolkit in the SIM card;

displaying the IP device information using the application toolkit; and

controlling the IP device using the local IP address and the displayed information.

13. The method of claim 9, wherein storing the IP device information in the SIM card further comprises updating the IP device information with updated IP device information received from the femtocell if a predetermined event occurs.

14. The method of claim 9, wherein storing the IP device information in the SIM card further comprises storing IP device information comprising a plurality of local IP addresses respectively corresponding to a plurality of IP devices from the femtocell, and controlling the IP device comprises controlling the IP device from among the plurality of IP devices according to a user selection.

15. A method for controlling an Internet Protocol (IP) device using a mobile terminal, comprising:

storing a local IP address of the IP device in a subscriber identification module (SIM) card;

retrieving the local IP address of the IP device; and

transmitting a control command to the femtocell, the control command to control the IP device using the local IP address.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the control command comprises a command to initiate a data transfer between the mobile terminal and the IP device.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein the control command comprises a command to the IP device to print data transmitted from the mobile terminal.

18. The method of claim 15, wherein the control command comprises a command to initiate a data transfer between the IP device and a separate device.

19. The method of claim 15, wherein the control command is transmitted from the mobile terminal to the femtocell via a base station.