Patent ID: 8467768

Claim:
A method for remote control of a target mobile communications device comprising: at a server, processing authorization credentials received from a client computer user to determine whether the client computer user is authorized to access the server to issue a request for an action to be performed by the target mobile communications device; at the server, and after processing of the authorization credentials, receiving a request for an action to be performed by the target mobile communications device, the request for the action received at the server from the authorized user accessing the server from the client computer; transmitting a command from the server to the target mobile communications device, the command corresponding to the received request for the action to be performed by the target mobile communications device; in response to the transmitted command, receiving at the server, information about the target mobile communications device; interpreting the received information about the target mobile communications device to determine whether the transmitted command was performed or not performed by the target mobile communications device; if the interpretation of the received information indicates that the command was performed by the target mobile communications device, providing a first notification from the server to the client computer that the command was performed, the notification formatted to populate a client computer web page containing a request for action status; and if the interpretation of the received information indicates that the command was not performed by the target mobile communications device, providing a second notification from the server to the client computer that the command was not performed, the second notification formatted to populate a client computer web page containing a request for action status.