Apparatus and method for providing remote communication of an electronic device in a communication network environment

• US 9,119,043 B2
• Filed: 07/08/2013
• Issued: 08/25/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/06/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Shaikh, Asif, Shah, Nitesh Pushpak
• Primary Examiner(s): Hua, Quan M
• Application Number:
  US13/936,498
• Publication Number:
  US 20140011477A1
• Time in Patent Office: 778 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/125 involving control of end-device applications over a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/14 Short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/50 Service provisioning or reconfiguring
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 92/18 between terminal devices

Abstract

A method and an apparatus conduct remote communication with an electronic device in a communication network environment, with the method including receiving a short message (SM) including an AT command from a controlling electronic device, analyzing and parsing the AT command for determining at least one task to be performed at the electronic device upon detecting that the SM is for a control operation, and performing the at least one task.

Claims

1. A method for providing remote communication with an electronic device in a communication network environment, the method comprises:

receiving a short message (SM) including an attention (AT) command from a controlling electronic device;

analyzing and parsing the AT command for determining at least one task to be performed at the electronic device on detecting that the SM is for a control operation in which control of an application extends from the controlling electronic device to the electronic device;

checking whether a password associated with the AT command in the received SM is present;

if the password is present the received SM, checking whether a number of the controlling electronic device that sent the SM is same as a security exception number; and

if the number is same as the security exception number, performing the at least one task at the electronic device.

2. The method as in claim 1, further comprising displaying one or more plain language keywords including a user predefined identifier for indicating a message for a remote control process for indicating the at least one task.

3. The method as in claim 1, wherein the controlling electronic device sends the SM to the electronic device through a Short Message Service (SMS).

4. The method as in claim 1, wherein the AT command is predefined in an AT library of the controlling electronic device.

5. The method as in claim 4, wherein the SM includes the AT command corresponding to an input selecting the AT command from the AT library in the controlling electronic device.

6. The method as in claim 1, wherein the SM includes an authentication element.

7. The method as claimed in claim 6, wherein the authentication element is at least one of a password and an authentication exception number stored in the electronic device.

8. The method as in claim 1, wherein the SM includes Transfer Protocol-reject duplicate (TP-RD) information for identifying and rejecting any occurrence of duplication of a same SM.

9. An electronic device for providing remote communication in a communication network environment, the electronic device comprising:

a short message module is configured to include a transmitter and a receiver for wirelessly receiving a short message (SM) including an attention (AT) command from a controlling electronic device to the electronic device; and

a processor configured to;

analyze and to parse the AT command for determining at least one task to be performed at the electronic device on detecting that the SM is for a control operation in which control of an application extends from the controlling electronic device to the electronic device;

to check whether a password associated with AT command in the received SM is present;

if the password is present the received SM, checking whether a number of the controlling electronic device that sent the SM is same as a security exception number; and

if the number is same as the security exception number, to perform the at least one task.

10. The electronic device as in claim 9, further comprising a display displaying one or more plain language library keywords including a user pre-defined keyword identifier for indicating a message for a remote control process, and for indicating the at least one task.

11. The electronic device as in claim 9, wherein the AT command is predefined in an AT library of the controlling electronic device.

12. The electronic device as in claim 9, wherein the electronic device determines whether the SM is related to the control operation by comparing a user pre-defined keyword identifier in the SM with a keyword pre-stored in the electronic device.

13. The electronic device as in claim 9, wherein the electronic device authenticates the SM before parsing the SM.

14. The electronic device as in claim 13, wherein the electronic device authenticates the SM using at least one of a password and an authentication exception number pre-stored in the electronic device.

15. The electronic device as in claim 9, wherein the electronic device ignores the SM, when a difference between a transmitting time of the SM of the controlling electronic device and a receiving time of the SM of the electronic device exceeds a pre-defined validity period.

16. The electronic device as in claim 9, wherein the electronic device further comprises a memory for storing a user pre-defined keyword identifier, a password, an authentication exception number and a validity period.

17. The electronic device as in claim 9, wherein the electronic device sends a status response including an operation result of the at least one task to the controlling electronic device.

18. The electronic device as in claim 9, wherein the short message module sends the SM to the electronic device through a Short Message Service (SMS).