Patent ID: 9549316
Date: 2017-01-17
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method of operating a host device coupled to a peripheral phone where a vendor-compliant phone maintenance tool specific to the coupled phone executes on the host device, the method comprising: a. receiving a tool-phone-state-incompatible user tool-command at the host device to modify the peripheral phone, the tool-phone-state-incompatible tool command being incompatible with a combination of the coupled phone in its current state and the vendor-compliant phone maintenance tool executing on the host device; and b. in response to an attempted mode interrogation by the vendor-compliant phone maintenance tool executing on the host device of the peripheral phone, sending a falsified description of the peripheral phone state to the executing vendor-compliant phone maintenance tool so that the received user tool-command is tool-phone-state compatible relative to the falsified description.