IBM Bluetooth Remote Invocation Tool enables you to run applications on your PC remotely in the range of Bluetooth connection. Currently this tool can be used to run applications either through Bluetooth or through other technologies, including file transfer over FTP or chat clients.

In the future, this technology is expected to be enhanced to let you to run applications on a PC using SMS and text messages.

How does it work?

IBM Bluetooth Remote Invocation Tool is preconfigured to run an application (.exe). When a mobile device uses Bluetooth to send a message to a remote system, the service on the remote system understands the message "run". Basically, IBM Bluetooth Remote Invocation Tool is configured to "what to run" and the Bluetooth message from the mobile tells it "when to run", so when IBM Bluetooth Remote Invocation Tool receives the "run" message from the mobile device through Bluetooth, it invokes the application.

Vishal Srivastava is a software developer for IBM Information Server (ETL datawarehouse tool) in India. He completed his engineering in IT from CUSAT in 2007 and joined IBM India Software Lab. He has worked on Java,C/C++, XML and on nearly all operating systems. His interests include OS kernels, Java, C, and parallel/distributive/cloud computing. Vishal is an IBM Websphere dataStage certified developer, and a SCJP and Brainbench certified C developer.