Patent ID: 7505763

Claim:
In a telecommunications network having at least one base station, central office for directing telephone traffic, and a plurality of wireless telephone devices, a system for remotely operating a first wireless telephone device by a second wireless telephone device, comprising: a first processors; and a first memory coupled to the first processor, wherein the memory comprises first instructions which, when executed by the first processor, causes the first processor to: lock out, in response to the first wireless telephone device entering a remote control mode as a result of receiving a remote control message from the network, all local operations entered on a keypad or buttons of the second wireless telephone device, in which the processor and memory are provided, except for an end of remote control command used to exit the remote control mode; and transmit all local operations, except for the end of remote control command, entered on the keypad or buttons of the second wireless telephone device to the first wireless telephone device, via the network, for remote operation of the first wireless telephone device, and wherein: the first wireless telephone device locks out all local operations entered on a keypad or buttons of the first wireless device, such that the first wireless telephone device is solely operated by the second wireless telephone device; the first and second wireless telephone devices operate in the remote control mode until the end of remote control command is entered on the second wireless telephone device; and in response to the remote control command being entered on the second wireless telephone device, each of the first and second wireless telephone devices exit the remote control mode and resume local operation.