Master-Slave Mobile Terminal Application Control via Server Mediation
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Solution Overview
Problem
The increasing popularity of mobile terminals has led to concerns about reckless usage by children, with parents lacking control over the applications and usage time, resulting in potential communication blocks and discomfort due to the lack of real-time status consideration.
Innovation Solution
A mobile communication system and method that registers a specific mobile terminal as a master device, collects status information, and transmits an application activation request signal to facilitate data communication and application control between mobile terminals, allowing for real-time monitoring and control.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a master-slave control system is established between mobile terminals, then control ability and interactive communication are improved, but device complexity and user discomfort increase
Solution Approach 1:
A server acts as an intermediary between the slave terminal and master terminal. The slave terminal sends application activation requests to the server, which then forwards them to the master terminal for approval. This mediator approach simplifies the control system architecture while maintaining effective parental control functionality, avoiding the need for direct complex peer-to-peer communication protocols between terminals.
2Ease of operation
If real-time status information is collected and transmitted, then user convenience and monitoring effectiveness are improved, but loss of time and communication overhead increase
Solution Approach 1:
Status information such as location, application usage, and device state is collected and pre-processed before being transmitted to the master terminal or stored on the server. This preliminary preparation of data reduces the need for real-time continuous transmission, allowing for more efficient communication cycles and reducing overall communication time while maintaining monitoring effectiveness.
3Reliability
If application activation requests are transmitted to master device, then control effectiveness is improved, but loss of information and communication delays increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements a feedback mechanism where the master terminal's approval or rejection decisions are transmitted back to the slave terminal through the server. This closed-loop feedback ensures that control decisions are effectively communicated and executed, maintaining control reliability while providing users with clear information about the status of their application activation requests.
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AI summary
A method of processing data in a first mobile terminal, and which includes registering, via a controller of the first mobile terminal, a second mobile terminal as a master device and the first terminal as a slave device; storing, via a memory associated with the first mobile terminal, status information indicating previous success or non-success of receiving a positive response from the second mobile terminal for a request to activate an application on the first mobile terminal; transmitting, via a wireless communication unit of the first mobile terminal, an application activation request signal to the second mobile terminal based on the stored status information; receiving, via the wireless communication unit, a response signal corresponding to the application activation request signal from the second mobile terminal; and activating, via the controller, the application in response to the received response signal.