Programmatic control of device I/O, EMF quiet mode, zone, signaling, and protocol
OwnerFrancis J. Leahyinventor
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Abstract
Programmatic control of device I/O and EMF quiet mode, zone, signaling, and protocol are disclosed. Programmatic device I/O control reduces EMF radiation from a device with a device I/O controller application for programmatic control of the device's I/O channels. Responsive to firing of control rules, the device I/O application calls device APIs to control I/O channel settings. A quiet mode that reduces overall EMF radiation from a device is administered by an administrator and controls the device's wired or wireless I/O channels to create an EMF quiet zone in which some or all devices in a vicinity respond to a request to put themselves into an EMF quiet mode.
Claims20
A method for reducing electric and magnetic field (EMF) radiation, comprising:
- providing a device on which the method is executed, wherein the device emits electric and magnetic field (EMF) radiation, the method further comprising:
- programmatically controlling input/output (I/O) channels of the device by a device I/O controller application installed on the device, wherein the device I/O controller application comprises a user interface and a set of control rules;
- sensing, by the device, events that fire the set of control rules;
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- responsive to firing at least one control rule in the set of control rules, controlling, by the device I/O controller application, one or more I/O channel settings on the device for reducing the electric and magnetic field (EMF) radiation from the device,
- wherein the set of control rules comprises any of:
- time-based rules, including fixed time and dynamic time,
- location-based rules that are installed on the device, wherein the device is configured to execute the location-based rules in absence of an administrator device,
- activity-based rules,
- movement-based rules,
- voice-based rules, or
- country defaults.
A method for reducing electric and magnetic field (EMF) radiation, comprising:
- providing a device on which the method is executed, wherein the device emits electric and magnetic field (EMF) radiation, the method further comprising:
- programmatically controlling input/output (I/O) channels of the device by a device I/O controller application,
- the device I/O controller application setting a quiet interval of wired or wireless I/O channels of the device,
- wherein the device is off during the quiet interval, the device periodically turns itself on, performs a check for incoming messages, then turns itself off again.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.