Method for providing remote mobile device access and control

• US 8,344,851 B2
• Filed: 05/31/2007
• Issued: 01/01/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Bisht, Man Mohan Singh
• Primary Examiner(s): Wong, Albert
• Assistant Examiner(s): POINT, RUFUS C
• Application Number:
  US11/807,977
• Publication Number:
  US 20070293194A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,042 Days
• Field of Search: 340/5.85, 340/539.1, 340/539.14, 340/3.1, 340/5.1, 340/825.52, 455/411, 379/142.05
• US Class Current: 340/5.85
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/125 involving control of end-device applications over a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72415 for remote control of appliances
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/74 with voice recognition means

Abstract

Provided is a remote mobile device access and control method, and particularly a generic approach for providing remote mobile device access and control. To this end, there is provided a method for a user to access and control his/her mobile device at a remote location by using a remote mobile device access and control architecture that allows the user to access an application and data of his/her mobile device.

Claims

1. A method for accessing and controlling a remote mobile device, which has at least one of an application or a data, by using a terminal, the method comprising:

receiving a request for establishing a call connection between the terminal and the remote mobile device, authenticating the terminal by the remote mobile device by using a first preset password, and establishing the call connection with the terminal at the request of the terminal by the remote mobile device if the request for establishing the call connection is made using the first preset password;

if the call connection is established, performing authentication at least once more by using a second preset password;

if the second password is input from the terminal, starting a finite state manager, and receiving a control command for controlling the application or data of the remote mobile device by using a speech recognition or TTS (Text-To-Speech) function from the terminal; and

accessing the application or data, and executing a corresponding command according to the control command from the terminal by the remote mobile device,

wherein the first preset password comprises a missed call count, and

wherein the second preset password comprises a Dual Tone Multiple Frequency (DTMF) password.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising scanning a state event queue indicative of a remote mobile device state by a remote finite state manager of the terminal, wherein the remote mobile device state includes a State Idle, a State Instruction, a State Command, and a State End.

3. The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein the State Idle is a default state of the remote finite state manager where there is no pending event in the state event queue.

4. The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein the State Instruction is an instruction state of the remote finite state manager where the remote finite state manager reads a predefined remote eXtensible Markup Language (XML) instruction file.

5. The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein the State Command is a command state of the remote finite state manager where the finite state manager reads a remote XML command file.

6. The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein the State End is an end state of the remote finite state manager where the remote finite state manager ends the remote finite state manager.

7. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

checking whether a type of the control command is offline or online;

if the type of the control command is offline, disconnecting the call connection.