Patent Application
20130007203
The present invention relates to a smart mobile device, and more particularly to a cloud-based communication device and a smart mobile device using the cloud-based communication device.
Smart mobile devices have developed increasingly. Especially, tablet PCs and smart mobile phones have been the fastest growing devices. Nowadays, it is not surprised that every person has a smart mobile phone or a tablet PC. To satisfy the diversified demands of the users, smart mobile devices have to execute various kinds of programs, for example programs for web pages, blogs, on-line videos, on-line music, radios, stock market quotations, web calls, video news or text news, which all need a quite large amount of computation. Therefore, the power consumption rate of the smart mobile devices generally is too high, resulting in that smart mobile devices commonly have to be recharged after 1-2 days of use.
To solve the above-mentioned problems, various kinds of portable power devices have appeared in the markets in order for the users to utilize the portable power devices to recharge the smart mobile devices on the move. However, it is a temporary, not a permanent solution to the issue. The portable power devices do not solve the basic problem of the smart mobile devices, i.e. the excessively high consumption rate of power. Moreover, the portable power devices have to be utilized in cooperation with different transmission wires except the main body to recharge the smart mobile devices, such that the weight of items necessarily carried by the users will be increased and the load to the user will be greater.
Accordingly, there is still a need for a solution which can solve the excessively high rate of power consumption of the traditional smart mobile devices.
To solve the aforementioned problems of performance insufficiency or the excessively high rate of power consumption of the traditional smart mobile devices, the present invention provides a cloud-based communication device and a smart mobile device using the cloud-based communication device.
In one aspect, the present invention provides a smart mobile device using a cloud-based communication device, comprising a microprocessor; a built-in operating system implanted in the smart mobile device; a receiving module coupled to the microprocessor to receive display data transmitted from the cloud-based communication device through a network, the display data instructing the smart mobile device to display a graphical user interface of a virtual operating system or program, wherein the built-in operating system is different from the virtual operating system or program; a display module coupled to the microprocessor to display the graphical user interface of the virtual operating system or program according to the display data; a control module coupled to the microprocessor to input and generate control signals based on the graphical user interface of the virtual operating system or program; and a transmission module coupled to the microprocessor to transmit the control signals to the cloud-based communication device through the network.
In another aspect, the present invention provides a cloud-based communication device, comprising a processor; a primary operating system implanted in the cloud-based communication device; a virtual operating system or program executed by the processor and generating display data, wherein the primary operating system is different from the virtual operating system or program, the display data instructing a smart mobile device to display a graphical user interface related to a smart mobile device operating system or a smart mobile device program simulated by the virtual operating system or program; a transmission module coupled to the processor to transmit the display data to the smart mobile device through a network; and a receiving module coupled to the processor to receive the control signals transmitted from the smart mobile device though the network to control the graphical user interface of the virtual operating system or program.
One advantage of the present invention is that the power consumption rate of the terminal smart mobile device will be decreased and the usage duration will be extended.
Another advantage of the present invention is that if the terminal smart mobile device is lost, the data will not be leaked out, such that the security and the data protection are enhanced.
Still another advantage of the present invention is that the user only needs to change a new terminal smart mobile device and then can employ most of the application programs and the data immediately, if the terminal smart mobile device is lost.
Yet another advantage of the present invention is that the problem that traditional smart mobile devices cannot execute large and complex application programs can be solved.
Still another advantage of the present invention is that the user needs not to copy data between different terminal smart mobile devices in order to keep them synchronous, and the continuity of business or non-business affairs can be upgraded.
These and other advantages will become apparent from the following description of preferred embodiments taken together with the accompanying drawings and the appended claims.
The present invention may be understood by some preferred embodiments and detailed descriptions in the specification and the attached drawings below. The identical reference numbers in the drawings refer to the same components in the present invention. However, it should be appreciated that all the preferred embodiments of the invention are provided only for illustrating but not for limiting the scope of the Claims and wherein:
The invention will now be described with the preferred embodiments and aspects and these descriptions interpret structure and procedures of the invention only for illustrating but not for limiting the Claims of the invention. Therefore, except the preferred embodiments in the specification, the present invention may also be widely used in other embodiments.
The present invention discloses a cloud-based virtual smart mobile device system 10. As shown in
In one embodiment of the present invention, the present invention includes three terminal smart mobile devices, for instance a terminal smart mobile device 200, another terminal smart mobile device 300 and a further terminal smart mobile device 400. The device number mentioned above is described to illustrate the present invention but not to limit the present invention. Thus, any number more than one of terminal smart mobile devices may be performed. The terminal smart mobile device 200, the terminal smart mobile device 300 and the terminal smart mobile device 400 are all coupled to the network 500 respectively, so as to be further coupled to the cloud-based communication device 100 through the network 500. The terminal smart mobile devices 200, 300 and 400 may include, but be not limited to, smart phones, tablet PCs, personal digital assistants (PDAs), notebooks (NBs) or netbooks, such as iPad and iPhone manufactured by Apple Computer, Inc., HTC Desire manufactured by HTC corp., HTC Legend manufactured by HTC Corp., etc.
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In one embodiment, the application program complexity determination module 106 is employed to determine how complexity of the application program selected by the user is after the user logins the cloud-based communication device 100. If the complexity determination result of the selected application program is higher than a predetermined value, the selected application program is executed in the cloud-based communication device 100. If the determination result of the complexity of the selected application program is lower than the predetermined value, the install file for the selected application program will be searched out from the database 110 and will be transmitted to and installed in the terminal smart mobile device 200, 300 or 400 used by the user, and the selected application program will be executed in the terminal smart mobile device 200, 300 or 400.
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The network coupling module 108 is utilized to couple with the network 500. The network coupling module 108 may include a wired network coupling module and/or a wireless network coupling module. In one embodiment of the present invention, the wireless network coupling module may include but be not limited to a 802.11x standard module, a Wi-Fi standard module, a 3G standard module, a 3.5G standard module, and a 4G standard module. The memory 109 is utilized to store the data of the primary operating system 102 and the application programs 104, including but are not limited to system files, telephone books, text files, image files, multimedia files, user names and passwords for social networks, games and web calls, music files, map data, photo files, web browsing history files, website bookmarks, short messages, electronic authentication data, credit card numbers, expiry dates of credit cards, coupon data, etc.
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The transmission module 111 transmits the display data to the terminal smart mobile device 200, 300 or 400 through the network 500, so as to render the display module of the terminal smart mobile device 200, 300 or 400 to show the display data and enable the users to see the graphical user interfaces for the smart mobile devices simulated by the smart mobile device simulation program (the smart mobile device virtual operating system) 103. The encrypting module 112 utilizes encryption algorithms to encrypt the data stored in the memory 109 and the database 110, so as to insure the security of the data. The receiving module 113 receives the control signals from the terminal smart mobile device 200, 300 or 400 through the network 500 to control the graphical user interfaces for the smart mobile devices simulated by the smart mobile device simulation program (the smart mobile device virtual operating system) 103.
The control module 6004 may input texts or symbols, control cursors, or click icons or buttons based on the graphical user interfaces simulated by the smart mobile device simulation program (the smart mobile device virtual operating system) 103. The control module 6004 may include but be not limited to pointing devices and keyboards. The pointing devices may include but be not limited to trace balls, touch panels, touch modules, joysticks, pointing sticks, light pens, etc. The memory 6005 is employed to store the data of the built-in operating system 6002 and the install files for the application programs downloaded from the cloud-based communication device 100. The receiving module 6006 receives the display data transmitted from the cloud-based communication device 100 through the network 500. The display data instruct the terminal smart mobile device 600 to display the graphical user interfaces simulated by the smart mobile device simulation program (the smart mobile device virtual operating system) 103. The transmission module 6008 transmits the control signals inputted by the users via the control module 6004 to the cloud-based communication device 100 through the network 500, so as to control the application programs 104 executed in the cloud-based communication device 100 and the graphical user interfaces simulated by the smart mobile device simulation program (the smart mobile device virtual operating system) 103. The network coupling module 6009 is utilized to couple with the network 500. The network coupling module 6009 may include a wireless network coupling module. In one embodiment of the present invention, the wireless network coupling module may include but be not limited to a 802.11x standard module, a Wi-Fi standard module, a 3G standard module, a 3.5G standard module, and a 4G standard module.
In one embodiment of the present invention, more than one of terminal smart mobile devices may connect and login the cloud-based communication device 100 with the same user name and password, so as to obtain the same graphical user interface for the smart mobile device and employ the same or at least the similar usage environment. If more than one of terminal smart mobile devices connect and login the cloud-based communication device 100 with different user names and passwords, different graphical user interfaces for the smart mobile devices will be obtained and different usage environments will be employed. In another embodiment of the present invention, the cloud-based communication device 100 may synchronize with the terminal smart mobile device 200, 300, 400 or 600 completely to render the application programs and related data in the cloud-based communication device 100 and the terminal smart mobile device 200, 300, 400 or 600 totally identical. In other words, virtual smart mobile devices may be formed directly in the cloud-based communication device 100. Thus, when the terminal smart mobile device 200, 300, 400 or 600 cannot connect to the cloud-based communication device 100, the user can still solely utilize the application programs and the related data in the terminal smart mobile device 200, 300, 400 or 600. When the terminal smart mobile device 200, 300, 400 or 600 can connect to the cloud-based communication device 100, the application program complexity determination module 1006 may determine whether the application program selected by the user should be executed in the cloud-based communication device 100 or in the terminal smart mobile device 200, 300, 400 or 600. In another embodiment, the application program selected by the user may be executed completely in the cloud-based communication device 100.
When the user would like to employ the terminal smart mobile device 200, 300 or 400, the terminal smart mobile device 200, 300 or 400 will connect the network 500 through the network coupling module 6009 to further connect to the cloud-based communication device 100. After the user is connected to the cloud-based communication device 100, the verifying module 105 will request the user to provide the user (account) name and the password. After the user inputs the user name and the password through the control module 6004 and the user name and the password are transmitted to the cloud-based communication device 100 through the transmission module 6008, the transmission module 111 will transmit the display data of the graphical user interface for the smart mobile device belonging to the user to the terminal smart mobile device 200, 300 or 400 if the user name and the password are correct, such that the display data will be shown on the display module 6003, accordingly to allow the user to read or see the information.
The user may select desired application programs 104 with the control module 6004, and followed by transmitting the control signals of the control module 6004 to the cloud-based communication device 100 through the transmission module 6008, and the control signals will be received by the receiving module 113, so as to control the cursors on the graphical user interfaces for the smart mobile devices simulated by the smart mobile device simulation program (the smart mobile device virtual operating system) 103 and render the cursors to click the specific application program. After the specific application program is clicked by the cursors, the application program complexity determination module 106 will determine the complexity of the specific application program. If the complexity determination result of the specific application program is higher than a predetermined value, the specific application program will be executed in the cloud-based communication device 100. On the contrary, if the complexity determination result of the specific application program is lower than the predetermined value, the install file for the specific application program will be searched out by the server searching engine from the database 110, and followed by transmitting them to the terminal smart mobile device 200, 300 or 400 used by the user, and the transmitted file is stored in the memory 6005 and installed therein. The specific application program will be executed in the terminal smart mobile device 200, 300 or 400 after installation if desire.
Accordingly, the terminal smart mobile device 200, 300 or 400 of the user only executes application programs with the complexity lower than the predetermined value and needs not to execute application programs with high complexity, thereby the power consumption rate thereof will be decreased and the usage duration will be extended. Most of the data required for the execution of the application programs are stored in the cloud-based communication device 100. Therefore, if the terminal smart mobile device 200, 300 or 400 is lost or missed, the data will not be leaked out, such that the security and the data protection are enhanced. Further, the user only needs to change a new terminal smart mobile device, and subsequently most of the application programs and the data may be accessed by the user immediately when the terminal smart mobile device 200, 300 or 400 is unfortunately lost due to most of the application programs and the related data are stored in the cloud-based communication device 100.
The backup module 107 may backup all of the data in the cloud-based communication device 100 automatically and cyclically. Therefore, the data backuped by the backup module 107 may recover the cloud-based communication device 100 to the original status, when the cloud-based communication device 100 malfunctions. Moreover, the problem that traditional smart mobile devices cannot execute large and complex application programs can be solved since the application programs with high complexity are executed in the cloud-based communication device 100. The present invention enables the user to employ any kinds of application programs in the terminal smart mobile device 200, 300 or 400. Furthermore, as long as the same user name and password are used, the user can employ the same usage environment of the cloud-based communication device 100 with any kinds of terminal smart mobile devices. Thus, the user needs not to copy data between different terminal smart mobile devices in order to keep them synchronous, and the continuity of business or non-business affairs can be upgraded. Further, the user is not required to learn different user interfaces continuously because the user can utilize different kinds of terminal smart mobile device 200, 300, 400 or 600 to connect and login the cloud-based communication device 100 with the same user name and password to have the same usage environment.
The foregoing description is a preferred embodiment of the present invention. It should be appreciated that this embodiment is described for purposes of illustration only, not for limiting, and that numerous alterations and modifications may be practiced by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. It is intended that all such modifications and alterations are included insofar as they come within the scope of the invention as claimed or the equivalents thereof.
| Number | Date | Country | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 100123177 | Jun 2011 | TW | national |
