System and method for receiving control commands at a peripheral device
AssigneesSony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
InventorsSamuel L. Mullis, II, Philip Elcan
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Abstract
A peripheral device includes a file system manager, a command interpreter, and a controller. The peripheral device receives file access commands from a host device. The file system manager determines if the file access commands have embedded control commands and, if so, extracts the control commands. The file system manager sends the control commands to the command interpreter. Based on analyzing the commands, the command interpreter causes the controller to perform a selected function at the peripheral device.
Claims11
A method of passing commands to a modem in a peripheral device, the method comprising:
- detecting, by a peripheral device, a file access command having an embedded modem command, wherein the file access command is formatted to perform a file operation on a predetermined virtual file at the peripheral device;
- extracting the modem command from the file access command to control a modem function;
- and
- passing the modem command to the modem to perform the modem function.
A peripheral device including a modem, the peripheral device comprising:
- a modem to communicate data with remote devices over a communication network;
- an interface to connect the peripheral device to a host device;
- a file system manager configured to:
- detect a file access command having an embedded modem command by determining whether the file access command targets a predetermined virtual file at the peripheral device;
- extract the modem command from the file access command to control a modem function;
- and
- a command interpreter in the modem, and configured to:
- receive the modem command from the file system manager;
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- process the modem command to perform the modem function.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.