CONNECTIONLESS REMOTE CONTROL SYSTEM

摘要

A connectionless remote control system (10) includes, in an electronic mail embodiment, a control script generator (28) for generating a remote control script, which is associated with a remote, controlling computing device (14). A target, controlled computing device (12) transmits (16) an electronic mail message including the remote control script along with a remote control identifier addressed to the user of the controlled computer (14). The client module (24) executing on the controlled computing device (12) periodically retrieves available electronic mail messages from an electronic mail server (18, 20), and examines each message for the remote control identifier. The remote control script is extracted from electronic mail messages when it includes the remote control identifier, and the client module (24) thereafter executes the instructions contained in the script to perform the remote control tasks.