Patent ID: 8798610

Claim:
A system comprising: a plurality of mobile phones, each phone to be identified as one of either a master phone or a child phone, each master phone configured to control at least one child phone, wherein each child phone to be configured to be controlled by at least one master phone, wherein each phone further comprising: a user interface of a parental control application to allow a master user on a master phone to interactively manage and control the at least one child phone, wherein a set-up phase is to identify whether a phone is to act as a master phone or child phone; an authentication agent configured to enable the phone to authenticate a data connection session between a master phone and child phone, and between more than one master phone, the authentication to utilize a security engine coupled to the phone for encrypting and decrypting messages and/or certificates; a policy management and enforcement agent to initiate changes in a control policy in a child phone and record the changes in the master phone, wherein (i) the control policy defines control and management of at least one feature of the child phone and (ii) the policy management and enforcement agent restricts, redirects, and/or monitors the at least one feature of the child phone, according to the control policy; a communication agent configured to send requests and control policy changes from the master phone to the child phone, and perform a handshake communication between phones to initiate the data connection session is by a series of short message service (SMS) messages between a master phone and child phone, wherein the master hone and child shone communicate via a TCP/IP protocol after the data connection session is initiated by the series of SMS messages; and secure storage for storing at least one control policy, the at least one control policy being associated with one of the at least one child phones.