Remote control app for smart phones

• US 20140245014A1
• Filed: 12/10/2013
• Published: 08/28/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/22/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Pascal's Pocket Corp.
• Original Assignee: Pascal's Pocket Corp.
• Inventors: Tuck, Edward F., Sallen, Douglas R., Lockie, Douglas G., Giaccherini, Thomas N., Probst, David K., Pedersen, Stig M., Sturza, Mark A.
• Application Number:
  US13/998,828
• Publication Number:
  US 20140245014A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 713/171
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/60 Software deployment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/282 based on user interaction within the home receiver circuitry for displaying additional information being controlled by a remote control apparatus H04N21/42204
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2012/2841 Wireless
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2012/285 Generic home appliances, e.g. refrigerators
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2463/101 applying security measures for digital rights management data processing systems or methods, specially adapted for commerce, e.g. marketing, shopping, billing, auctions or e-commerce G06Q30/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/0819 Key transport or distribution, i.e. key establishment techniques where one party creates or otherwise obtains a secret value, and securely transfers it to the other(s) network architectures or network communication protocols for key distribution in a packet data network H04L63/062
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/04 Key management, e.g. using generic bootstrapping architecture [GBA]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/082 using revocation of authorisation
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/086 using security domains
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/126 Anti-theft arrangements, e.g. protection against subscriber identity module [SIM] cloning
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/35 Protecting application or service provisioning, e.g. securing SIM application provisioning
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/37 Managing security policies for mobile devices or for controlling mobile applications

Abstract

Methods and apparatus for a Remote Control App for Smart Phones are disclosed. One embodiment of the present invention is a software application or “App” which may be downloaded to a conventional smart phone (12). Once downloaded to the smart phone (12) and to a remote computer, network or other information appliance (14), the smart phone (12) may be used to operate and/or control the remote computer, network or other information appliance.

Claims

1. A method for adding computing functionality to a smart phone (12) comprising the steps of:

providing a smart phone (12);

said smart phone (12) including a CPU (15B);

said including a non-volatile memory (15A);

said non-volatile memory (15A) being divided into a plurality of dynamic partitions (42);

each of said plurality of dynamic partitions (42) being assigned to a persona of a user (10);

each of said plurality of dynamic partitions (42) being safeguarded by an access rule (46);

said smart phone (12) including a volatile memory (15C);

said smart phone (12) including a long range radio (15D);

said smart phone (12) including a short range radio (15F);

providing a transmitter (16, 18);

providing a server (14);

said transmitter (16, 18) being connected to said server (14);

said server (14) including a memory (17) for storing an App (13);

conveying said App (13) from said server (14) to said transmitter (16, 18);

conveying said App (13) from said transmitter (16, 18) to said smart phone (12) using said long range radio (15D) in said smart phone (12);

storing said App (13) in said non-volatile memory (15) of said smart phone (12);

running said App (13) on said CPU (15B); and

downloading said App (13) to a nearby separate information appliance (21A);

using said smart phone (12) to control the function of said nearby information appliance (21A) using said short range radio (15F).

2. A method as recited in claim 1, in which

said server (14) is located in the Cloud.

3. A method as recited in claim 1, in which

said server (14) is located in a user'"'"'s office.

4. A method as recited in claim 1, in which

said server (14) is located in a user'"'"'s home.

5. A method as recited in claim 1, in which

said smart phone (12) is purchased with said App (13) being pre-installed in the non-volatile memory (15B) of said smart phone (12).

6. A method as recited in claim 1, in which

said user (10) stores all his or her data in said smart phone (12), so that said smart phone becomes a personal Cloud.

7. A method as recited in claim 1, further comprising:

automatically backing-up the contents of said non-volatile memory (15B) in said smart phone (12) to the Cloud.

8. A method as recited in claim 1, further comprising:

erasing the data stored in said non-volatile memory (15B) in said smart phone (12) if said smart phone (12) is lost or stolen based on instructions from said user (10).

9. A method as recited in claim 1, in which

each of said plurality of dynamic partitions each contains information which is related to a particular topic.

10. A method as recited in claim 1, in which

said non-volatile memory (15B) is divided into a plurality of dynamic partitions (42);

each of said dynamic partitions (42) containing a persona.

11. A method as recited in claim 1, in which

said user (10) may store different kinds of content in each of said plurality of dynamic partitions (42).

12. A method as recited in claim 1, in which

each of said plurality dynamic partitions (42) may be configured with a different access rule (46) which allows others to access the contents of each of said plurality of dynamic partitions with other devices.

13. A method as recited in claim 1, in which

a group administrator (54) may have control over one of said plurality of dynamic partitions (42).

14. A method as recited in claim 1, in which

a group administrator (54) may have permission to view the contents of one of said plurality of dynamic partitions (42).

15. A method as recited in claim 1, in which

a group administrator (54) may aggregate the contents of dynamic partitions from a plurality of smart phones (12) to generate a report (68).

16. A method as recited in claim 1, in which

an external security device (80, 82, 84, 86) may be attached to said smart phone (12) to enhance its security.

22. A method as recited in claim 1, in which

communications to and from said smart phone (12) are secured using the method recited in claim 21.

23. A method as recited in claim 1, in which

said smart phone (12) communicates with a friendly device which has been previously introduced to said smart phone (12) to establish a level of trust between said smart phone (12) and said friendly device.

24. A method as recited in claim 1, in which

said smart phone (12) communications “

on-the-fly”

with an unfriendly device.

17. A method for conveying digital content comprising the steps of:

providing a server;

said server being connected to a network;

providing a client;

said client being connected to said network;

requesting a content key from said server;

authenticating said request;

sending an encrypted session key to said client;

decrypting said encrypted session key;

sending a second request to said server;

authenticating said second request;

sending said content key encrypted with said encrypted session key to said client;

using said encrypted session key to recover said content key; and

using said recovered content to decrypt digital content.

18. A method for conveying digital content comprising the steps of:

setting up a security domain on a server;

registering a client on said security domain;

said server generating a content key and encrypting said content with said content key;

said server transferring said encrypted content to said client;

said client sending a request to said server for said content key;

said server authenticating said request;

generating a session key;

encrypting said session key;

sending response to said client;

decrypting said response to recover said session key;

sending a second request to said server;

authenticating said second request;

encrypting said content key with said session key;

sending second response to said client;

decrypting said second response with said session key to recover said content key; and

using said content key to decrypt digital content.

19. A method for securely transferring digital content comprising the steps of:

setting up a security domain on a server;

registering a client on said security domain;

dividing said digital content into a plurality of segments;

generating a plurality of segment keys, one for each of said plurality of segments;

encrypting each of said plurality of segments with one of said plurality of segment keys;

transferring said plurality of segments which have been encrypted to said client;

said client sending a request to said server for said plurality of segment keys;

authenticating said request;

generating a plurality of session keys, one for each of said plurality of segments;

encrypting said plurality of session keys;

sending a response to said client;

decrypting said response to recover said plurality of session keys;

sending a second request to said server;

authenticating said second request;

encrypting said remaining segment keys with said remaining session keys;

sending second response to said client;

decrypting said second response with said plurality of session keys to recover said plurality of segment keys which have been encrypted; and

using said plurality of segment keys to decrypt digital content.

20. A method for securely transferring digital content comprising the steps of:

setting up a security domain on a server including a quasi-public key crypto system and a quasi-public key, key exchange system;

registering a client on said security domain;

dividing digital content into a plurality of segments;

generating a random key for each segment;

encrypting said plurality of segments with said random keys using a symmetric key algorithm;

transferring said encrypted said plurality of segments to said client;

sending a request encrypted using said quasi-public key crypto system to said server for said segment keys;

authenticating said request for said segment keys from said client;

generating session keys for each of said plurality of segments;

transforming said segment keys using said quasi-public key, key exchange protocol;

encrypting said transformed session keys using said quasi-public key crypto system;

sending response to said client;

decrypting said response using said quasi-public key crypto system;

recovering said session keys from said transformed session keys using said quasi-public key, key exchange protocol;

computing a hash of said session keys;

encrypting said hash using said symmetric key algorithm with said first session key;

sending a second request to said server;

authenticating said second request;

encrypting said remaining segment keys using said symmetric key algorithm with said remaining session keys;

sending second response to said client;

decrypting said second response using said symmetric key algorithm with said session keys to recover said encrypted segment keys; and

using said segment keys to decrypt digital content.

21. A method for conveying digital content comprising the steps of:

providing a server;

providing a client;

requesting a content key from said server;

authenticating said request;

sending an encrypted session key to said client;

decrypting said encrypted session key;

sending a second request to said server;

authenticating said second request;

sending said content key encrypted with said encrypted session key to said client;

using said encrypted session key to recover said content key; and

using said encrypted session key to decrypt digital content.