Patent ID: 7499699

Claim:
In a wireless telecommunications network, a method of remotely operating a first wireless telephone device by a second wireless telephone device, comprising: receiving a remote control message by the first wireless telephone device; in response to receiving the remote control message, entering by the first and second wireless telephone devices, a remote control mode, wherein all local operations, except for an end of remote control command used to exit the remote control mode, entered on a keypad or buttons of the second wireless telephone device are transmitted to the first wireless telephone device for operation by the first wireless telephone device; and in response to entering the remote control mode by the first and second wireless telephone devices, performing the following steps: locking out, by the first wireless telephone device, all local operations entered on a keypad or buttons of the first wireless telephone device, such that the first wireless telephone device is solely operated by the second wireless telephone device; locking out, by the second wireless telephone device, all local operations entered on the keypad or buttons of the second wireless telephone device, except for the end of remote control command; operating, by the first and second wireless telephone devices, 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, exiting, by the first and second wireless telephone devices, the remote control mode and resuming local operation by each of the first and second wireless telephone devices.