Patent ID: 9480105
Filing Date: 2016-10-25
CPC Classification: G08C,H04L,H04M,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method for remotely controlling a target device, the method comprising: determining that the target device and a proxy device are within a wireless Personal Area Network (PAN) and a control device is outside of the PAN; generating, by the control device, a message that enables the proxy device to communicate with the target device via the PAN, the message comprising a target address of the target device, a virtual source PAN identifier (ID) of the control device, and a virtual destination PAN ID of the target device which are converted by the proxy device to a destination address, a real source PAN ID, and a real destination PAN ID, respectively; and transmitting the message to the proxy device, wherein the message is transmitted using a short message service (SMS) via a cellular network, and the message further comprises an SMS sender number as authentication information to obtain, from the proxy device, authentication to control the target device, wherein the message is generated by the control device using a mapping table that respectively corresponds the SMS sender number, the target address, the virtual source PAN ID, and the virtual destination PAN ID to a source address, the destination address, the real source PAN ID, and the real destination PAN ID, and wherein the SMS sender number, the target address, the virtual source PAN ID, and the virtual destination PAN ID are converted by the proxy device using the same mapping table.