Patent ID: 8190694
Filing Date: 2012-05-29
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for controlling operation of a computer network communication device that communicates over a computer network comprising: generating, with a computer network communication device, monitor messages having a unique device identifier and command identification data; sending the generated monitor messages to a control site in background to a communication session between the computer network communication device and a communication service; verifying with a server at the control site that the unique device identifier in the generated monitor messages received at the control site is also stored in a device database; comparing the command identification data in a monitor message to control data stored in a control database with the server in response to the unique device identifier in the monitor message also being stored in the device database; and generating control messages to operate the computer network communication device with the server in response to the command identification data in the monitor message failing to correspond to the control data stored in the control database, the control messages comprising: a computer network communication device stop command generated in response to the command identification data corresponding to a communication from the computer network communication device outside prescribed time limits stored in the control database.