US 2015/0031330 A1Published application

System and method for preventing cell phone use while driving

OwnerXuesong Zhou, Wallace Curryinventors

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Abstract

A system for monitoring and controlling the use of a mobile computing device is disclosed. The system includes a data server containing a model of a road network specifying traffic routes at a selected location. A mobile wireless computing device is configured o wirelessly communicate with the data server. An embedded accelerometer and a GPS receiver are included in the wireless device. A mobile device control module in communication with the wireless device and the data server provides a motion data cache to record data from the GPS receiver and accelerometer, an activity mode recognition module configured to determine a type of activity based on the motion data cache, and a use permission module in communication with the data server to provide timing and location information at which the wireless device can be used based on the activity mode.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A system for monitoring and controlling the use of a mobile computing device, comprising:

a data server containing a use permission database and a model of a road network specifying traffic routes at a selected location;
a mobile wireless computing device configured to wirelessly communicate with the data server and further including an embedded accelerometer and Geo Positioning System (GPS) receiver;
a mobile device control module configured to operate on at least one of the mobile wireless computing device and the data server, wherein the module includes:
a motion data cache configured to record data from the GPS receiver and the accelerometer for a period of greater than one minute;
an activity mode recognition module configured to determine a type of activity based on the motion data cache;
and
a use permission module in communication with the data server, wherein the use permission module is configured to:
receive timing and location information from the use permission database detailing a time period and a location that are permissible to use the mobile wireless computing device;
and
determine whether to provide access to functions of the mobile wireless computing device based on the timing information, the location information, and a determination made by the activity mode recognition module that the type of activity is driving.

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Facts

Application: 14/452,025Filed 5 Aug 2014
Priority: 9 Oct 2008
Published: 29 Jan 2015
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

H04W 48/04
Access restriction performed under specific conditions: based on user or terminal location or mobility data, e.g. moving direction, speed
H04W 4/027
Using location based information parameters: using movement velocity, acceleration information
H04W 8/02
Network data management: processing of mobility data, e.g. registration information at HLR [Home Location Register] or VLR [Visitor Location…
H04W 12/08
Security arrangements; Authentication; Protecting privacy or anonymity: access security

Family

Application61/104,171Us provisional application · filed 9 Oct 2008
Application13/123,490Continuation · filed 28 Jun 2011
Application14/452,025Continuation
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