Abstract: A cloud-based system includes a cloud server system with cloud computing capability, and an embedded device coupled to the cloud server system through a network. The embedded device is configured to request the cloud server system for a specific service by generating a service request to the cloud server system. A cloud-based processing method includes: utilizing an embedded device to generate a service request for a specific service, and serving the service request by cloud computing.

Abstract: A telephone connecting socket to be fixed in a wall for a connecting plug of a telephone to fit in a hole in the socket having a front cap, a body and a rear cap, the front cap covering a front portion of the body and the rear cap covering a rear half portion of the body, the front cap having an opening normally closed up with a shield elastically pushed by a coil spring, the body having an inner socket with a hole for the connecting plug of a telephone to fit therein by passing through the opening in the front cap with the shield pushed open.