System and method for remotely operating a wireless device using a server and client architecture

• US 8,254,903 B2
• Filed: 04/14/2009
• Issued: 08/28/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 01/30/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Cassis International Pte. Ltd. (Advent International Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Cassis International Pte. Ltd. (Advent International Corporation)
• Inventors: Lee, Kwang Wee
• Primary Examiner(s): RAMPURIA, SHARAD K
• Application Number:
  US12/386,213
• Publication Number:
  US 20100197347A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,232 Days
• Field of Search: 455418-420, 455/41.2, 4554141-4143, 4555561-558, 455/566, 709/203, 370/352
• US Class Current: 455/419
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/385 for adaptation of a particular data processing system to different peripheral devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/147 using display panels
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/445 Program loading or initiating bootstrapping G06F9/4401; security arrangements for program loading or initiating G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/44584 Portable applications, i.e. making applications self-contained, e.g. U3 standard
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2360/18 Use of a frame buffer in a display terminal, inclusive of the display panel
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/16 Use of wireless transmission of display information
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/006 Details of the interface to the display terminal specific for a display terminal using a CRT G09G1/167; using a flat panel G09G3/2096; circuits for interfacing with colour displays G09G5/04
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/22 Processing or transfer of terminal data, e.g. status or physical capabilities

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a system and method for remotely operating one or more peripheral devices of a wireless device using a server and client architecture. In one aspect, the system may comprise a wireless device that includes a processor, a memory, a peripheral device, and a server adapted to communicate with the peripheral device; and a removable media device that includes a memory, a processor, and a client adapted to communicate with the server of the wireless device. In another aspect, the method may comprise the steps of emulating a hardware interface on a removable media device; mapping a peripheral device of a wireless device to the interface; mapping a processor of the media device to the peripheral device; wrapping and sending hardware commands from a client of the media device to a server of the wireless device; and executing the commands on the peripheral device.

Claims

1. A method for operating one or more peripheral devices of a wireless device from a media device having a client stub comprising:

a. mapping, on the wireless device, a processor of the media device, via a server;

b. receiving, on a processor of the wireless device, wrapped TCP/IP packets containing hardware commands and client stub data sent from the media device;

c. unwrapping, on the wireless device, said wrapped TCP/IP packets containing hardware commands;

d. sending said TCP/IP packets to a server stub framework in the processor of said wireless device; and

e. executing, by the wireless device, said hardware commands,

f. scanning for an access point connection, wherein said scanning step is performed by WiFi hardware.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said server is a stub application.

3. The method of claim 1, further including the step of communicating via the server with a client of the wireless device using a transfer layer of a communication link.

5. The method of claim 1, further including the step of communicating via a processor of the wireless device with an embedded operating system of the media device using a physical layer of a communication link.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein said wrapped packets are received from a client of the media device using a communication link.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein said communication link is a data bus.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein said communication link is wireless.

9. The method of claim 1, further including the step of transmitting, from the server to the media device, one or more results corresponding to said hardware commands.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein said hardware commands include one or more of querying configurable and non-configurable properties of at least one peripheral device of the wireless device, changing configuration settings for at least one peripheral device, checking configuration settings of at least one peripheral device, and sending data to at least one peripheral device for execution on the hardware of the peripheral device.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein said wrapped packets are received from a client of the media device using an API.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the executing step is performed by at least one of the peripheral devices of the wireless device.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of said peripheral devices is a display screen, keypad, touch screen, radio, codec, Bluetooth adapter, WiFi adapter, GPS, or camera.

14. The method of claim 1, further including the step of identifying a particular peripheral device for executing said hardware commands according to information contained in said wrapped TCP/IP packets.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein said information corresponds to a logical port number associated with said particular peripheral device.

4. The method of 3, further including the step of checking, by the wireless device, a buffer coupled to said transport layer for data stored on said transport layer.

16. A method for operating one or more peripheral devices of a wireless device from a media device comprising:

a. emulating, on the media device, a hardware interface for communicating with a runtime environment;

b. mapping, by a client on the media device, at least one peripheral device of the wireless device to said emulated hardware interface so the media device operates as if directly connected to the peripheral device;

c. wrapping, by said client on the media device, hardware commands and data sent from a client stub of said media device into TCP/IP packets;

d. transmitting, by said client on the media device, said wrapped TCP/IP packets containing said hardware commands and said data to the wireless device; and

e. executing said hardware commands, by the media device, as if the peripheral device of the wireless device is directly connected to the media device;

f. scanning for an access point connection, wherein said scanning step is performed by WiFi hardware.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the media device is removably coupled to the wireless device.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein the media device is mechanically connected to the wireless device.

19. The method of claim 16, wherein the media device adheres to a MMC, SD, micro SD, SIM, SAM, or USB dongle form factor.

20. The method of claim 16, wherein the media device is a removable media card.

21. The method of claim 16, wherein the transmitting step includes transmitting said wrapped packets using a communication link.

22. The method of claim 16, wherein the transmitting step includes transmitting said wrapped packets to a server of the wireless device.

23. The method of claim 21, wherein the communication link is a data bus.

24. The method of claim 21, wherein the communication link is wireless.

25. The method of claim 16, wherein said client is a stub application.

26. The method of claim 16, wherein the transmitting step includes transmitting said wrapped packets using an API.

27. The method of claim 16, wherein the emulating step is performed by one or more of the client and a hardware framework corresponding to one or more of the peripheral devices.

28. The method of claim 16, wherein the executing step is performed by a processor of the media device.

29. The method of claim 16, wherein said hardware commands include one or more of querying configurable and non-configurable properties of at least one peripheral device of the wireless device, changing configuration settings for at least one peripheral device, checking configuration settings of at least one peripheral device, and sending data to at least one peripheral device for execution on hardware of the peripheral device.

30. The method of claim 16, wherein at least one of the peripheral devices of the wireless device is a display screen, keypad, touch screen, radio, audio codec, Bluetooth, WiFi adapter, GPS, or camera.

31. The method of claim 28, further including the step of running a hardware framework on said processor, said hardware framework corresponding to one or more of the peripheral devices of the wireless device.

32. The method of claim 31, wherein said hardware framework includes a library of functions adapted to be implemented by at least one of the peripheral devices.

33. The method of claim 16, further including repeating steps b through e for another one of said peripheral devices.

34. The method of claim 16, further including the step of receiving, by the client of the media device, results corresponding to one or more of said hardware commands from the wireless device.

35. The method of claim 16, further including the step of receiving, by the client of the media device, data corresponding to one or more settings for at least one peripheral device of the wireless device.

36. The method of claim 25, wherein said settings include a setting corresponding to one or more of thresholds, min values, max values, character case, language, sensitivity, frequency, channel, frame rate, resolution, color, bit rate, sample size, sampling rate, ISO, and power.

37. The method of claim 16, wherein said client is adapted to communicate with the wireless device using an Open Systems Interconnection Reference Model architecture.

38. The method of claim 21, wherein said communication link includes one or more protocol layers.

39. The method of claim 38, wherein said protocol layers include one or more of a transport layer, network layer, datalink layer, and physical layer.

40. The method of claim 16, wherein the transmitting step includes transmitting said wrapped packets using a transfer layer of a communication link.

41. The method of claim 16, further including the step of communicating via a processor of the wireless device with an embedded operating system of the media device using a physical layer of a communication link.

42. The method of claim 16, wherein the wrapping step further includes wrapping said hardware commands as payload in a TCP/IP packet.

43. The method of claim 16, wherein the transmitting step further includes transmitting said wrapped packets using a USB standard endpoint descriptor to at least one peripheral device associated with a particular logical port number.

44. A method for operating one or more peripheral devices of a wireless device from a media device comprising:

a. emulating, on the media device, a hardware interface for communicating with a runtime environment;

b. mapping, by a client of the media device, at least one peripheral device of the wireless device to said emulated hardware interface so the media device operates as if directly connected to the peripheral device;

c. mapping, by a server of the wireless device, a processor of the media device to the peripheral device so the peripheral device operates as if directly connected to said processor;

d. sending, by said client, wrapped TCP/IP packets containing hardware commands and data sent from a client stub of the media device to said server of the wireless device;

e receiving, by said server, said wrapped TCP/IP packets containing hardware commands from said client;

f. unwrapping, on the wireless device, said wrapped TCP/IP packets containing hardware commands and data;

g. sending said TCP/IP packets to a server stub WiFi framework in the processor of said wireless device; and

h. executing, by the wireless device, said hardware commands;

i. scanning for an access point connection, wherein said scanning step is performed by WiFi hardware.

45. The method of claim 44, wherein said server is a stub application.

46. The method of claim 44, wherein said client is a stub application.

47. The method of claim 44, further including the step of communicating via a processor of the wireless device with an embedded operating system of the media device using a physical layer of a communication link.

48. The method of claim 44, wherein the sending step includes sending said wrapped packets using a communication link.

49. The method of claim 48, wherein said communication link is a data bus.

50. The method of claim 48, wherein said communication link is wireless.

51. The method of claim 44, wherein said hardware commands include one or more of querying configurable and non-configurable properties of at least one peripheral device of the wireless device, changing configuration settings for at least one peripheral device, checking configuration settings of at least one peripheral device, and sending data to at least one peripheral device for execution on hardware of the peripheral device.

52. The method of claim 44, wherein the sending step includes sending said wrapped packets to the client using an API.

53. The method of claim 44, wherein the executing step is performed by at least one of the peripheral devices of the wireless device.

54. The method of claim 53, wherein at least one of said peripheral devices performing the executing step is a display screen, keypad, touch screen, radio, codec, Bluetooth adapter, WiFi adapter, GPS, or camera.

55. The method of claim 44, further including the step of identifying a particular peripheral device for executing said hardware commands according to information contained in said wrapped TCP/IP packets.

56. The method of claim 55, wherein said information corresponds to a logical port number associated with said particular peripheral device.

57. The method of claim 44, wherein the media device is removably coupled to the wireless device.

58. The method of claim 44, wherein the media device is mechanically connected to the wireless device.

59. The method of claim 44, wherein the media device adheres to a MMC, SD, micro SD, SIM, SAM, or USB dongle form factor.

60. The method of claim 44, wherein the media device is a removable media card.

61. The method of claim 44, wherein the emulating step is performed by one or more of the client of the media device and a hardware framework corresponding to at least one peripheral device of the wireless device.

62. The method of claim 44, further including the step of running a hardware framework on a processor of the media device, said hardware framework corresponding to one or more of the peripheral devices of the wireless device.

63. The method of claim 62, wherein said hardware framework includes a library of functions adapted to be implemented by at least one of the peripheral devices.

64. The method of claim 44, further including repeating steps b through g for another one of said peripheral devices.

65. The method of claim 44, further including the step of receiving, by the client of the media device from the server of the wireless device, data corresponding to one or more settings for at least one peripheral device of the wireless device.

66. The method of claim 65, wherein said settings include a setting corresponding to one or more of thresholds, min values, max values, character case, language, sensitivity, frequency, channel, frame rate, resolution, color, bit rate, sample size, sampling rate, ISO, and power.

67. The method of claim 44, wherein the client is adapted to communicate with the wireless device using an Open Systems Interconnection Reference Model architecture.

68. The method of claim 44, wherein said communication link includes one or more protocol layers.

69. The method of claim 68, wherein said protocol layers include one or more of a transport layer, network layer, datalink layer, and physical layer.

70. The method of claim 44, wherein the sending step includes sending said wrapped packets using a transfer layer of a communication link.

71. The method of claim 44, further including the step of checking, by the wireless device, a buffer coupled to said transport layer for data stored on said transport layer, wherein said checking step is performed after step d and before step e.

72. The method of claim 44, further including the step of storing one or more hardware commands as payload in a TCP/IP packet, wherein the storing step is performed after step c and before step d.

73. The method of claim 44, further including assigning a logical port number to at least one of the peripheral devices on the wireless device.

74. The method of claim 73, wherein at least one of said wrapped packets includes a USB standard endpoint descriptor, and wherein the sending step further includes sending said wrapped packet to a particular peripheral device associated with said logical port number.

75. The method of claim 44, further including the step of receiving, by the client of the media device from the server of the wireless device, results corresponding to one or more of the hardware commands.