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US 11,770,756 B2Granted
Mobile device mode enablement/disablement responsive to sensing a physiological parameter
OwnerPeter D. Karabinis, Rajendra Singhinventors
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Abstract
A method of enabling one or more functions of a device is disclosed. The method includes sensing by a device a physiological parameter of a user of the device. The device determines whether or not the physiological parameter that is sensed satisfies a criterion. Responsive to determining that the physiological parameter that is sensed satisfies the criterion, the device enables a number of functions of the device while disabling a function of the device.
Claims18
A method of operating a device, the method comprising:
- sensing by the device, using a device-based sensor, a parameter that is associated with the device, an environment of the device and/or a user of the device;
- determining by the device a value of the parameter that is sensed;
- and
- responsive to the value that is determined by the device for the parameter that is sensed satisfying a threshold criterion, enabling by the device a number of functions of the device and disabling by the device a function of the device;
- wherein the parameter that is sensed using the device-based sensor, comprises a velocity, an acceleration, a time-of-day, a humidity, a temperature, a height, a level of brightness, a level of darkness, a blood pressure, a heart rate, a blood content, a physiological state and/or a psychological state;
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- wherein the device comprises a smartphone.
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A device that is configured to perform operations comprising:
- sensing by the device, using a device-based sensor, a parameter that is associated with the device, an environment of the device and/or a user of the device;
- determining by the device a value of the parameter that is sensed;
- and
- responsive to the value that is determined by the device for the parameter that is sensed satisfying a threshold criterion, enabling by the device a number of functions of the device and disabling by the device a function of the device;
- wherein the parameter that is sensed using the device-based sensor, comprises a velocity, an acceleration, a time-of-day, a humidity, a temperature, a height, a level of brightness, a level of darkness, a blood pressure, a heart rate, a blood content, a physiological state and/or a psychological state;
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- wherein the device comprises a smartphone.
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A method of operating a wireless device, the method comprising:
- sensing by the wireless device, using a sensor of the wireless device, a parameter that is associated with the wireless device, an environment of the wireless device and/or a user of the wireless device;
- determining by the wireless device a value of the parameter that is sensed and determining by the wireless device whether or not the value that is sensed satisfies a threshold criterion;
- responsive to the value that is sensed satisfying the threshold criterion, enabling a number of functions of the wireless device and disabling a function of the wireless device;
- requesting by the wireless device from a second device an authorization to enable a function for conducting a financial transaction;
- responsive to the requesting, receiving by the wireless device from the second device the authorization to enable the function for conducting the financial transaction;
- responsive to receiving the authorization, enabling at the wireless device the function for conducting the financial transaction;
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- responsive to the wireless device satisfying a proximity condition relative to an entity and responsive to the wireless device sensing the parameter and determining that the value sensed satisfies the threshold criterion, using the function for conducting the financial transaction and conducting the financial transaction by paying for a product;
- wherein the parameter that is sensed, using the sensor of the wireless device, comprises a velocity, an acceleration, a time-of-day, a humidity, a temperature, a height, a level of brightness, a level of darkness, a blood pressure, a heart rate, a blood content, a physiological state and/or a psychological state;
- and
- wherein the wireless device comprises a smartphone.
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A wireless device that is configured to perform operations comprising:
- using a sensor of the wireless device and sensing a parameter that is associated with the wireless device, an environment of the wireless device and/or a user of the wireless device;
- determining a value that is associated with the parameter that is sensed and determining whether or not the value satisfies a threshold criterion;
- responsive to the value satisfying the threshold criterion, enabling a number of functions of the wireless device and disabling a function of the wireless device;
- requesting from a second device an authorization to enable a function for conducting a financial transaction;
- responsive to the requesting, receiving from the second device the authorization to enable the function for conducting the financial transaction;
- responsive to receiving the authorization, enabling the function for conducting the financial transaction;
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- responsive to the wireless device satisfying a proximity condition relative to an entity and responsive to the wireless device sensing the parameter and determining that the value of the parameter sensed satisfies the threshold criterion, using the function for conducting the financial transaction and conducting the financial transaction by paying for a product;
- wherein the parameter that is sensed comprises a velocity, an acceleration, a time-of-day, a humidity, a temperature, a height, a level of brightness, a level of darkness, a blood pressure, a heart rate, a blood content, a physiological state and/or a psychological state;
- and
- wherein the wireless device comprises a smartphone.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.