KR100946964B1 - Method and system for remote controlling communication terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method and a system for remotely controlling a communication terminal, wherein the protector transmits setting information input to the first terminal to the second terminal, and the second terminal generates notification information according to the setting information. A remote control method and a remote control system for transmitting to the first terminal. According to the present invention, the guardian of the first terminal can conveniently and accurately monitor the guardian of the second terminal.

Communication terminals, remote control, infants, parents, mobile phones, MMS, SMS

Description

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REMOTE CONTROLLING COMMUNICATION TERMINAL}

1 is a diagram illustrating a network for implementing a remote control method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a remote control method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a diagram illustrating an interface in a first terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a view for explaining a remote control system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

<Explanation of symbols for the main parts of the drawings>

400: communication terminal

401: receiver

402: notification information generation unit

403: transmission unit

404: judgment unit

405: authentication processing unit

406: camera module

407: microphone module

408: GPS receiver module

The present invention relates to a method and a system for remotely controlling a communication terminal, wherein the protector transmits setting information input to the first terminal to the second terminal, and the second terminal generates notification information according to the setting information. A remote control method and a remote control system for transmitting to a first terminal.

Today's remarkable development of information and communication technology has rapidly promoted the popularization of communication terminals (mobile devices), so that most ordinary people always have communication terminals such as mobile phones and PDAs. Therefore, the user can easily communicate with the counterpart using the communication terminal, so that communication is more frequent than before, and users of the communication terminal are gradually increasing. Such communication terminals are provided with more various functions to meet the needs of users as the communication technology and the use of users increase, thereby providing user convenience.

Recently, a guardian should carry a communication terminal with an infant to prevent the loss of children. That is, the guardian can monitor the guardian through the call setup with the guardian when the guardian returns home late. In order for the guardian to monitor the guardian, the guardian must take an action such as answering a call or replying to a text message. However, in a situation where the custodian cannot take action due to abduction or injury, the custodian can no longer monitor the custodian.

The present invention has been made to solve the problems of the prior art as described above, an object of the present invention is to provide a remote control method and a remote control system for the user of the first terminal to conveniently and accurately monitor the user of the second terminal. To provide.

Another object of the present invention is to remotely control the mobile phone of the target person to collect the surrounding information of the target person, thereby protecting the guardian's personality and responding promptly to possible crimes.

In order to achieve the above object and to solve the above-mentioned problems of the prior art, the remote control method according to an embodiment of the present invention, the first terminal, transmitting the setting information input from the user to the second terminal Receiving, at the second terminal, the transmitted setting information; at the second terminal, any one of voice data, image data, video data, call request signal, and current location information according to the received setting information. Generating notification information including one, and transmitting, by the second terminal, the generated notification information to the first terminal.

In a remote control method according to another embodiment of the present invention, receiving configuration information input to a first terminal from a base station, storing the received configuration information in a memory, voice data, image according to the stored configuration information Generating notification information including any one of data, video data, a call request signal, and current location information, and transmitting the generated notification information to the first terminal.

A remote control system according to an embodiment of the present invention, the receiving unit for receiving the setting information transmitted from the first terminal, according to the received setting information, voice data, image data, video data, call request signal, and the current position And a notification unit for generating notification information including any one of the information, and a transmission unit for transmitting the generated notification information to the first terminal.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Reference will now be made in detail to the preferred embodiments of the present invention, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like reference numerals refer to the like elements throughout.

1 is a diagram illustrating a network for implementing a remote control method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, the second terminal 120 according to an embodiment of the present invention stores setting information received from the first terminal 110 in a memory, and generates notification information using the setting information. The generated notification information is transmitted to the first terminal 110. For example, the user of the first terminal 110 is a guardian of the user of the second terminal 120. More specifically, the first terminal 110 may transmit the setting information by inputting a phone number for the second terminal 120 and operation setting information for remote control. For example, the first terminal 110 inputs the operation setting to record and transmit the voice of the surroundings at predetermined intervals by the remote control of the second terminal 120. Accordingly, the first terminal 110 transmits the information on the period and the control signal for requesting the voice recording to the second terminal 120 in the form of a short text message or a multimedia message using the telephone number. Can be. The second terminal 120 which receives the setting information including the period information and the operation setting information from the first terminal 110 records the surrounding voice at the corresponding period. In addition, the voice data recorded for each period is transmitted as the notification information to the first terminal 110. In this case, the second terminal 120 may transmit the notification information in the form of a short text message or a multimedia message. The telecommunications company server 130 may transmit the setting information to the second terminal 120 or the notification information to the first terminal 110.

For example, the short message or the multimedia message including the setting information or the notification information includes predetermined identification information. Accordingly, the terminal receiving the message including the predetermined identification information may distinguish the general text message from the setting information or the notification information by using the identification information.

As described above, the first terminal 110 transmits setting information to the second terminal 120 in addition to the audio data, thereby notifying image data, image data, call request signal, and current location information. Information can be received. For example, the second terminal 120 may receive setting information for requesting current location information from the first terminal 110. Accordingly, the second terminal 120 may calculate current location information by using the location based service system 140 and transmit the calculated current location information to the first terminal 110. The location based service system 140 may calculate the current location information based on a base station signal or calculate the current location information based on a GPS signal transmitted by a GPS satellite.

As a result, the remote control method according to the present invention allows the guardian to monitor the guardian conveniently and accurately.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a remote control method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 2, in step 201, a first terminal according to the present invention receives configuration information from a user and transmits the input configuration information to a second terminal. In this case, the first terminal may transmit the input setting information to the second terminal in the form of a short text message or a multimedia message. In this case, the first terminal may convert the configuration information into a corresponding message format and then transmit the configuration information to a messaging server. In the present specification, the first terminal is described as a mobile communication terminal such as a mobile phone, but the first terminal is any communication terminal capable of receiving setting information from the user and transmitting the received setting information to a second terminal. Can be interpreted. That is, the first terminal is a PSTN terminal, VoIP, SIP, Megaco, PDA (Personal Digital Assistant), cellular phone, PCS (Personal Communication Service) phone, hand-held PC (Hand-Held PC), CDMA-2000 (1X, 3X) phones, WCDMA (Wideband CDMA) phones, Dual Band / Dual Mode phones, Global Standard for Mobile (GSM) phones, Mobile Broadband System (MBS) phones, satellite / terrestrial digital multimedia broadcasting ) Phone, computer terminal and the like.

In step 202, the second terminal receives the setting information from the first terminal, and stores the received setting information in a memory. In one example, the setting information includes time setting information and operation setting information. The time setting information determines a time point at which the operation of the second terminal is started, for example, every hour, 10 minutes, and 30 minutes later. In addition, the operation setting information determines to generate one of the voice data, image data, video data, call request signal, and current location information. 3, the setting information input from the first terminal will be described in detail.

3 is a diagram illustrating an interface in a first terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The first terminal receives configuration information according to a user's selection. Referring to FIG. 3, the first terminal receives a telephone number '010-1111-2222', operation setting information 'voice recording', and time setting information 'every 10 minutes' of the second terminal. Thus, the first terminal generates configuration information by using the input information. That is, the first terminal generates setting information for recording a voice every 10 minutes by using the input information, and the generated setting information is identified by a telephone number '010-1111-2222'. 2 Send to the terminal. In this case, the generated setting information may be transmitted to the second terminal in the form of a short text message or a multimedia message through a messaging server.

Referring back to FIG. 2, in step 203, the second terminal checks the time setting information included in the setting information and generates notification information. If the time setting information is a '10 minute period ', the second terminal may generate the notification information every 10 minutes.

The notification information may be any one of voice data, image data, video data, a call request signal, and current location information.

More specifically, in order to generate the voice data, the second terminal first checks the time setting information included in the setting information. Accordingly, if the current time and the time setting information correspond, the second terminal drives the microphone module, and generates voice data by recording a voice generated in the surroundings through the driven microphone module. If the guardian is a user of the second terminal and is in a situation such as kidnapping, the voice data generated from the voice generated in the surroundings of the first terminal, which is the guardian's terminal, may be used as a decisive clue. .

As another example, in order for the second terminal to generate the image data or the image data, the second terminal first checks the time setting information included in the setting information, and whether the time setting information corresponds to the current time. Judge. Accordingly, if the current time corresponds to the time setting information, the second terminal drives the camera module, and photographs the surrounding image at predetermined time intervals or photographs the surrounding for a predetermined time using the camera module. Thus, the generated image or image is stored in the memory as the notification information.

As another example, the second terminal may make a call request to the first terminal according to the configuration information. To this end, the second terminal checks the setting information to determine whether the current time corresponds to the time setting information included in the setting information. As a result of the determination, if the current time corresponds to the time setting information, the second terminal generates a call request signal and transmits it to a mobile communication server, and the mobile communication server receives a call request from the second terminal. A call between the first terminal and the second terminal is established.

As another example, the second terminal may transmit current location information to the first terminal according to the setting information. More specifically, the second terminal determines whether the current time corresponds to the time setting information included in the setting information according to the setting information. If the determination result corresponds, the second terminal may transmit the current location information calculated using the location-based service system to the first terminal. For example, the second terminal receives a plurality of GPS signals from a plurality of different GPS satellites, calculates current location information using the received plurality of GPS signals, and stores the current location information in a memory. As another example, the second terminal transmits a query requesting the calculation of the current position to the mobile communication server, and the mobile communication server uses the location signal of the second terminal identified from the plurality of base stations according to the received query. The current location information can be calculated. Thus, the mobile communication server transmits the calculated current location information as notification information to the first terminal.

Referring back to FIG. 2, in step 204, the second terminal reads the generated notification information from the memory, transmits the read notification information to the first terminal, and the first terminal sends the notification. Receive information. In this case, the notification information transmitted from the second terminal to the first terminal may be in the form of a short message or a multimedia message.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the second terminal receiving the setting information authenticates the first terminal. For example, the setting information may include a phone number of the first terminal, user identification information, and the like, and the second terminal may authenticate the first terminal by using the setting information. More specifically, the second terminal stores a phone number for the first terminal allowing remote control in the memory, or stores the name, social security number, password, etc. for the user of the first terminal to authenticate the setting information. can do.

As described above, the remote control method according to the present invention may control the second terminal at a periodic time to transmit the notification information to the first terminal, as well as to transmit the notification information only at the corresponding time. 2 You can also control the terminal. By applying this, the remote control method may use the setting information to control the talk time of the second terminal, the call destination, the setting of the sender or receiver of the text message, the use time of the wireless Internet, and the like.

As a result, the remote control method according to the present invention can remotely control the second terminal from the first terminal to receive notification information, so that the user of the first terminal can conveniently and accurately monitor the user of the second terminal. .

4 is a view for explaining a remote control system 400 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

First, the remote control system 400 includes a receiver 401, a notification information generator 402, and a transmitter 403.

First, the receiver 401 receives the setting information transmitted from the first terminal. For example, the setting information may be in the form of a short message or a multimedia message, and the reception unit 401 may recognize that the message includes the setting information through identification information included in the message. For example, the identification information may be recorded in the header portion of the message packet.

Next, the notification information generation unit 402 generates notification information including any one of voice data, image data, video data, a call request signal, and current location information according to the received setting information.

The notification information generation unit 402 may check the time setting information included in the setting information, and generate the notification information by driving a corresponding module when a current time corresponds to the time setting information.

For example, when the notification information required by the setting information is voice data, the notification information generator 402 may generate the voice data by driving the microphone module 407 at a corresponding time.

In addition, when the notification information required by the setting information is image data or image data, the notification information generation unit 402 drives the camera module 406 to capture an image of the surroundings or to capture an image of the notification. Information can be generated.

As another example, if the notification information required by the configuration information is the call request, the notification information generation unit 402 generates the call request signal at the corresponding time as the notification information. Accordingly, the generated call request signal is transmitted to the mobile communication server, and the mobile communication server establishes a call between the first terminal and the second terminal according to the received call request signal.

As another example, when the notification information required by the setting information is the current location information, the notification information generator 402 may generate the current location information as the notification information by using a location-based service. More specifically, the notification information generator 402 drives the GPS receiving module 408 and receives a plurality of GPS signals received from a plurality of GPS satellites at a corresponding time using the GPS receiving module 408. The current location information may be generated. In addition, the notification information generation unit 402 may generate a query for requesting the calculation of the current location to the mobile communication server as the notification information.

The transmitter 403 transmits the generated notification information to the first terminal.

If the generated notification information is transmitted to the first terminal in the form of a short message or a multimedia message, the transmission unit may further include a protocol conversion unit (not shown) for transmitting the message.

If the notification information is the query, the transmitter 403 transmits the query to the mobile communication server. Accordingly, the mobile communication server collects location information of the second terminal from a plurality of base stations and calculates the current location information based on the collected location information. The mobile communication server provides the calculated current location information to the first terminal as the notification information.

The remote control system 400 according to an embodiment of the present invention further includes a determination unit 404.

The setting information further includes time setting information, and the determination unit 404 determines whether the time setting information corresponds to the current time, and the notification information generation unit 402 determines the determination unit 404. The notification information is generated according to the result. That is, the remote control system 400 uses the determination unit 404 to generate the notification information for a time set by the user of the first terminal, for a predetermined period starting from the time, or for a predetermined time. Can be.

The remote control system 400 according to another embodiment of the present invention further includes an authentication processing unit 405.

The authentication processing unit 405 authenticates the first terminal by using the received setting information. To this end, the remote control system 400 stores information such as the telephone number of the first terminal, the terminal number, the name of the user of the first terminal, and the social security number in the memory, and reads the received setting information. It can handle authentication. That is, the setting information may include any one of the phone number, the terminal number, the name, and the resident registration number.

As a result, the remote control system according to the present invention enables the user of the first terminal to monitor the user of the second terminal conveniently and accurately by allowing the first terminal to remotely control the second terminal to receive notification information. have.

Embodiments of the present invention include computer readable media including program instructions for performing various computer implemented operations. The computer readable medium may include program instructions, data files, data structures, etc. alone or in combination. The media may be those specially designed and constructed for the purposes of the present invention, or they may be of the kind well-known and available to those having skill in the computer software arts. Examples of computer-readable recording media include magnetic media such as hard disks, floppy disks, and magnetic tape, optical recording media such as CD-ROMs, DVDs, magnetic-optical media such as floppy disks, and ROM, RAM, flash memory, and the like. Hardware devices specifically configured to store and execute the same program instructions are included. Examples of program instructions include not only machine code generated by a compiler, but also high-level language code that can be executed by a computer using an interpreter or the like.

As described above, the present invention has been described by specific embodiments such as specific components and the like, but the embodiments and the drawings are provided only to help a more general understanding of the present invention, and the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments. For those skilled in the art, various modifications and variations are possible from such description.

Therefore, the spirit of the present invention should not be limited to the described embodiments, and all of the equivalents or equivalents of the claims as well as the claims to be described later will belong to the scope of the present invention. .

According to the present invention, it is possible to provide a remote control method and a remote control system for allowing a user of the first terminal to conveniently and accurately monitor a user of the second terminal.

According to the present invention, by remotely controlling the mobile phone of the target person to collect the surrounding information of the target person, it is possible to protect the personality of the target person and to cope quickly with a possible crime.

Claims (17)

In a method for remote control, Transmitting, at a first terminal, setting information input from a user to a second terminal; Checking, at the second terminal, a current time and determining whether the current time corresponds to time setting information in the setting information; In the second terminal, as a result of the determination, when the corresponding information is generated, notification information including at least one of voice data, image data, video data, a call request signal, and current location information is generated according to the received setting information. step; And Transmitting, by the second terminal, the generated notification information to the first terminal Remote control method comprising a. delete The method of claim 1, The time setting information, Remote control method characterized in that the cycle information. The method of claim 1, The step of generating the notification information, Driving the microphone module according to the received setting information; And Storing the digital signal output by the driven microphone module in the memory as the voice data; Remote control method comprising a. The method of claim 1, The step of generating the notification information, Driving the camera module according to the received setting information; And Storing the digital signal captured by the driven camera module in the memory as the image data Remote control method comprising a. The method of claim 1, The step of generating the notification information, Driving the camera module according to the received setting information; And Storing the digital signal output from the driven camera module in the memory as the image data Remote control method comprising a. The method of claim 1, The step of generating the notification information, Transmitting a call request signal to a base station according to the received configuration information; And Establishing a call with the first terminal according to the call request signal Remote control method comprising a. The method of claim 1, The step of generating the notification information, Driving a GPS receiving module according to the received setting information; Receiving GPS signals from a plurality of GPS satellites using the driven GPS receiving module; And Calculating current location information from the received plurality of GPS signals Remote control method comprising a. The method of claim 1, The step of generating the notification information, Transmitting a query for calculating current location information to a base station according to the received configuration information; The base station calculates the current position information of the second terminal according to the query, and transmits the calculated current position information to the first terminal. The method of claim 1, The step of transmitting the notification information to the first terminal, Converting the generated notification information into a short message or a multimedia message; And Transmitting the converted short text message or the multimedia message to a messaging server together with the number information of the first terminal. Remote control method comprising a. The method of claim 1, In the second terminal, authenticating the first terminal using the received setting information Remote control method comprising a further. In the operating method of the terminal for remote control, Receiving configuration information input to a first terminal from a base station and storing the received configuration information in a memory; Checking a current time and determining whether the current time corresponds to time setting information in the stored setting information; Generating notification information including at least one of voice data, image data, video data, a call request signal, and current location information according to the stored setting information when the determination result corresponds; And Transmitting the generated notification information to the first terminal. Remote control method comprising a. The method of claim 12, Extracting a calling party's telephone number from the received setting information; And Authenticating the first terminal using the extracted calling party number; Remote control method comprising a further. A computer-readable recording medium in which a program for executing the method of any one of claims 1 and 3 to 13 is recorded. In a system for remote control, A receiving unit which receives setting information transmitted from the first terminal; Determining whether the time setting information included in the setting information corresponds to the current time; As a result of the determination of the determination unit, in response to the notification information generation unit for generating notification information including at least one of voice data, image data, image data, call request signal, or current location information according to the received setting information. ; And Transmitter for transmitting the generated notification information to the first terminal Remote control system comprising a. delete The method of claim 15, An authentication processing unit for authenticating the first terminal by using the received setting information. Remote control system comprising a further.

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