Mobile device services control system and method
OwnerKenneth Matthew Gloverinventor
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Abstract
A system provides a means to enable and disable predetermined mobile device services to prevent driver distraction while operating a motor vehicle. Once a vehicle is turned on the Mobile Device Service Control algorithm determines a mobile device(s) and vehicle location to determine their proximity to each other. Services are enabled or disabled depending on the result of proximity determination.
Claims22
A mobile device service management platform comprising:
- a microcontroller configured to:
- send mobile device data to a carrier network, the mobile device data includes an indication a specified mobile device is ON;
- in response to a determination the specified mobile device is in a same location as a vehicle having a vehicle status of ON, receive a control signal from the carrier disabling a designated wireless service to the specified mobile device.
A non-transitory computer readable medium embodying a computer program, the computer program comprising computer readable program code that, when executed by processing circuitry, causes the processing circuitry to:
- receive vehicle data from a tracking device, the vehicle data including a vehicle status of a vehicle;
- determine whether a vehicle status is ON;
- determine whether a specified mobile device is ON;
- receive mobile device data from the specified mobile device;
- determine whether the specified mobile device is in a same location as the vehicle;
- and
- in response to determining the specified mobile device is in the same location as the vehicle, disable a designated wireless service to the specified mobile device.
A Mobile Device Services Control system comprising:
- a tracking device configured to:
- couple to a vehicle;
- determine whether a vehicle status of the vehicle is ON;
- send vehicle data to a server, the vehicle data including the vehicle status;
- and
- broadcast an audio signal within the vehicle, wherein in response to a mobile device detecting the audio signal a designated wireless service for the mobile device is disabled.
The system of claim 19, wherein the determination whether the specified mobile device is ON is based on a determination whether the specified mobile device is active on a carrier network.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.