Mobile handset extension to a device

• US 9,119,073 B2
• Filed: 10/17/2014
• Issued: 08/25/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/08/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Flynn, Judson, Haughn, Erick John, Lewis, John
• Primary Examiner(s): PATEL, MAHENDRA R
• Application Number:
  US14/516,939
• Publication Number:
  US 20150038113A1
• Time in Patent Office: 312 Days
• Field of Search: 455/426.1, 455/517, 455/462, 370/338
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/303 Terminal profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/67 by electronic means
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/673 the user being required to key in a code
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 11/007 with remote control systems remote control in general G08C
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42178 by downloading data to substation equipment
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/00 Security arrangements; Authentication; Protecting privacy or anonymity
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 Authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/08 Access security
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/12 Detection or prevention of fraud
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/43 using shared identity modules, e.g. SIM sharing
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/14 Direct-mode setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/30 Connection release
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/005 Discovery of network devices, e.g. terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/04 adapted for relaying to or from another terminal or user

Abstract

Mobile operation is extended to a device. An extension interface comprises a client component within a mobile that is linked to a client component within the device. Extension of mobile operation is secured via delivery of credentials associated with the mobile to the device. Delivery of credentials is temporary and typically spans the period during which mobile operation is extended to the device. Application(s) and content(s) can be conveyed to the device for utilization therein. An emulation component that can reside at least in part on the client component within the device can emulate mobile operation. Client component within the mobile can include at least in part (i) a component that downloads drivers for communication with, and utilization of, the device to which mobile operation is extended, and (ii) a component that can scan for wireless-capable devices to extend mobile service thereto.

Claims

1. A device, comprising:

a processor; and

a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising;

sending instruction data representing an instruction that facilitates a return of content data to the device from a remote device by facilitating an emulation of a function associated with the device by the remote device;

determining that a logical termination of a connection established between the device and the remote device has been initiated;

receiving revocation command data from the remote device; and

as a function of the revocation command data, revoking a security credential sent to the remote device as security data.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein the emulation of the function associated with the device comprises synchronizing content generated by and associated with the remote device.

3. The device of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise forwarding first traffic, received from a radio access network device, to the remote device.

4. The device of claim 3, wherein the operations further comprise forwarding second traffic, received from the remote device, to the radio access network device.

5. The device of claim 1, wherein the security credential comprises a license to facilitate the emulation of the function by the remote device.

6. The device of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise performing a search of a radio access network device for a driver to facilitate the emulation of the function by the remote device.

7. The device of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise downloading a driver from a radio access network device to facilitate the emulation of the function by the remote device.

8. The device of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise, in response to downloading, as a function of a remote device type, a driver from a radio access network device to facilitate the emulation of the function by the remote device, storing the driver to a storage device.

9. The device of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise, in response to downloading a driver from a radio access network device and as a function of the security credential, forwarding the driver to the remote device.

10. The device of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise, prior to sending the security credential to the remote device, using a voice recognition locking process to secure the security credential based on voice information representative of a voice.

11. The device of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise, prior to sending the security credential to the remote device, using an iris recognition locking process to secure the security credential based on iris information representative of an iris.

12. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising executable instructions that, in response to execution, cause a system comprising a processor to perform operations, comprising:

in response to receiving instruction data representing an instruction from a mobile device, emulating a function associated with the mobile device to return content to the mobile device;

initiating a logical termination of a connection established with the mobile device; and

facilitating a revocation of a security credential associated with the connection by the mobile device.

13. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein the operations further comprise sending content to the mobile device as a function of the instruction.

14. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein the operations further comprise receiving first traffic from the mobile device, and wherein the first traffic was obtained by the mobile device from a radio access network device.

15. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein the operations further comprise sending second traffic to the mobile device to be forwarded to a radio access network device.

16. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein the operations further comprise receiving a driver from the mobile device, and wherein the driver facilitates the emulating the function associated with the mobile device.

17. A method, comprising:

initiating, by a system comprising a processor, a return of content data to the system from a remote device by facilitating a function associated with a mobile device being emulated by the remote device;

determining, by the system, that a logical termination of a connection established between the mobile device and the remote device has been initiated; and

in response to receiving from the remote device revocation command data representing a revocation command, revoking, by the system, a security credential previously sent to the remote device.

18. The method of claim 17, further comprising forwarding, by the system, traffic received from a radio access network device to the remote device as a function of the security credential.

19. The method of claim 17, further comprising forwarding, by the system, traffic received from the remote device to a radio access network device as a function of the security credential.

20. The method of claim 17, further comprising:

downloading a driver from a radio network access device; and

forwarding the driver to the remote device, wherein the driver facilitates the function associated with the mobile device being emulated by the remote device.