Patent 7760696 was granted and assigned to Samsung on July, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An apparatus and method for controlling a wireless terminal, including parameter information to control a camera function of the wireless terminal is set, a camera control message to automatically control the camera function is set to be transmitted through a message transmission unit, the wireless terminal obtains the camera control message periodically transmitted from the message transmission unit, and a camera mode is automatically converted through parameter information of the obtained camera control message, so that it is possible to protect the camera function of the wireless terminal from malicious use.