Method of remote management of mobile communication terminal data

• US 6,914,891 B2
• Filed: 01/10/2001
• Issued: 07/05/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 01/10/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Pantech Corporation (Ideahub, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: SK Teletech Company Limited
• Inventors: Ha, Nam Kyu, Kim, Kyong Hee, Lee, Jae Young
• Primary Examiner(s): CANGIALOSI, SALVATORE A
• Application Number:
  US09/758,098
• Publication Number:
  US 20020126652A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,637 Days
• Field of Search: 370/338, 379/335.05, 455/419, 455/557
• US Class Current: 370/338
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/082 the condition being updates or upgrades of network functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0853 by actively collecting configuration information or by backing up configuration information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/22 comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/22 Processing or transfer of terminal data, e.g. status or physical capabilities

Abstract

A method of entering and modifying user data of a mobile communication terminal in a physically remote manner is provided A call is made from a mobile communication terminal to a computer or from a computer to a mobile communication terminal. Here, if a typical voice call or a simple data service call is connected, necessary data cannot be entered into the right memory area of the mobile communication terminal where said data have to be stored. In the present invention, a separate remote data update mode is set up and data and commands for transmission and entry of data are transmitted and received in this mode. According to the present invention, such data which cannot be entered by users in a direct manner to a mobile communication terminal as animation data or image data which are used for display on mobile communication terminal screen, melody data which are used for a ring tone for mobile communication terminal, game programs which are useable in mobile communication terminal, etc., can possibly be entered in addition to personal information data such as speed dial numbers since users can manipulate a data manager program already installed in the computer and thereby enter data to a mobile communication terminal and further modify them.

Claims

1. A remote management method of mobile communication terminal data using a system comprising a wireless communication network comprising a cell site and a mobile communication exchange, a mobile communication terminal, a computer for managing data of said mobile communication terminal, a data interfacing apparatus connected to Internet and to said wireless communication network for interfacing the exchange to Internet, in which said mobile communication terminal is assigned a public static IP address and the data management program installed in said computer has therein said public static IP address of said mobile communication terminal which said data management program manages and the method comprises:

the step of setting up a network wherein said mobile communication terminal makes a PPP (Point to Point Protocol) setup with the data interfacing apparatus using said public static IP address;

the step of making a call connection wherein TCP/IP session is formed between said mobile communication terminal and said computer using said public static IP address and the IP address of computer, upon user'"'"'s request for connection;

the step of checking for a demand for transmission of data from the computer and, if said demand is detected, confirming the demand for transmission;

the step of editing and storing data wherein, where the demand for said transmission is confirmed, the data transmitted from said mobile communication terminal are edited by the data management program in said computer and the edited final data are stored both in said computer and said mobile communication terminal; and

the step of receiving and storing data wherein, where the demand for said transmission is not confirmed, the data transmitted from the computer using TCP/IP session are stored in said mobile communication terminal.

2. The remote management method of mobile communication terminal data as set forth in claim 1, in which a user'"'"'s single clicking of corresponding button of said management program enables said TCP/IP call connection to be executed.

3. The remote management method of mobile communication terminal data as set forth in claim 1, in which said step of editing and storing data further comprises:

The first step wherein said mobile communication terminal transmits corresponding data to computer;

the second step wherein said computer displays the transmitted data so that the user can confirm and edit said transmitted data and the modified data can be transmitted to said mobile communication terminal if said data have been modified by said user;

the third step wherein said computer checks if the data have been modified or not, and if modified, said computer transmits the modified final data to said mobile communication terminal for storage upon user'"'"'s instruction, and if not modified, the process proceeds to the following fourth step; and

the fourth step wherein said mobile communication terminal or said computer checks if there is a demand from opposite party for termination of the call, and if there is a demand to terminate the call, the call is terminated, and if there is no such demand, the process proceeds to said step of confirming a demand from said computer for transmission of data.

4. The remote management method of mobile communication terminal data as set forth in claim 1, in which said step of receiving and storing data further comprises:

the first step wherein said mobile communication terminal demands desired data of said computer;

the second step wherein said computer transmits said data desired by said mobile communication terminal to said mobile communication terminal;

the third step wherein said mobile communication terminal stores said data transmitted from said computer in a predetermined memory area;

the fourth step wherein said mobile communication terminal and said computer checks if there is a demand from opposite party for termination of the call; and

the fifth step wherein the call between said mobile communication terminal and said computer is terminated if there is a demand to terminate the call, and if there is no such demand, the process proceeds to the step of confirming a demand from said computer for transmission of data.

5. A remote management method of cellular telephone data in which a computer equipped with a modem and a data manager program is used, the method comprising the steps of:

a cellular telephone entering a remote data update mode;

a computer executing the data manager program and entering a remote data update mode;

one of the computer and the cellular telephone making a call;

where the computer makes said call, the cellular telephone answering the call;

where the cellular telephone makes said call, the computer answering said call;

the computer fetching and editing user data from the cellular phone and transmitting the edited data to the cellular phone; and

the cellular telephone updating the user data stored in the cellular telephone with the data from the computer.

6. A remote management method of updating cellular telephone data using a computer equipped with a modem and a data manager program, the method comprising the steps of:

a cellular telephone entering a remote data update mode;

the cellular telephone making a call to a computer;

a cellular telephone exchange sending a ring signal to the computer at the same time informing the computer that the calling mode is a remote data update mode by setting specific bit of service option data;

the computer answering said call with the specific bit of service option data being set and entering a remote data update mode;

the computer executing the data manager program and fetching and editing user data from the cellular phone; and

the computer transmitting the edited data to the cellular phone and the cellular telephone updating the user data stored in the cellular telephone with the data from the computer.

7. A remote management method of updating cellular telephone data in which the method of transmitting and receiving user data between a first cellular telephone and a second cellular telephone, the method comprising the steps of:

the first cellular telephone entering a remote data update mode;

the second cellular telephone entering a remote data update mode;

the first cellular telephone making a call to the second cellular telephone;

the second cellular telephone answering the call with the specific bit of service option data being set and entering a remote data update mode; and

one of the first and second cellular telephones fetching user data from the other one of the first and second cellular telephones and updating the user data stored in said one of the first and second cellular telephones with the data from the other of the first and second cellular telephones.

8. A remote management method of updating cellular telephone data by transmitting and receiving user data between a first cellular telephone and a second cellular telephone, the method comprising the steps of:

the first cellular telephone entering a remote data update mode;

the first cellular telephones making a call to the second cellular telephone;

a cellular telephone exchange sending a ring signal from the first cellular telephone to the second cellular telephone at the same time informing the second cellular telephone that the calling mode is a remote data update mode by setting specific bit of service option data;

the second cellular telephone answering the call with the specific bit of service option data being set and entering a remote data update mode; and

one of the first and second cellular telephones fetching user data from the other of the first and second cellular telephones and updating the user data stored in said one of the first and second cellular telephones with the data from the other of the first and second cellular telephones.