METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE

摘要

A method (300, 400), system (245) for and corresponding communications unit 200 provide assistance for and control of the unit. The system in one embodiment, preferably comprises: a processor (223) and a memory (225); where the processor interprets a control message, available from a local application or remote agent (119), that corresponds to one or more control commands, such as keypad activations to provide keypad data and executes software instructions stored in the memory to control the communication unit according to the keypad data. The control message can represent voiced instructions that have been converted to control commands in order to provide assistance to a user of the unit or device.