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US 2016/0242014 A1Published application
Selective mobile device component lockdown in moving vehicles
AssigneeFoster Products Corporation
InventorsWinston Douglas Mayer, Gary D. Foster
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Abstract
On-Board Diagnostics (OBDs) produced by a vehicle are monitored in real time. The OBDs are evaluated in view of rules or policies to take actions with respect selective component lockdown of resources for a mobile device that is operational within the vehicle. For example, the display screen of the mobile device is blacked out and locked out when the OBDs indicate the vehicle is moving.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- filtering, by a device, On-Board Diagnostics (OBDs) produced by a vehicle;
- and
- wirelessly communicating, by the device, the filtered OBDs to a mobile device application for controlling a mobile device based at least in part on the filtered OBDs, wherein wireless communicating further includes interacting with an Operating System (OS) of the mobile device for turning on a wireless communication mechanism of the mobile device when detecting that the mobile device is not communicating via the wireless communication mechanism before wirelessly communicating with the mobile device.
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A method, comprising:
- receiving, by a server, filtered On-Board Diagnostics (OBDs) produced by a vehicle, wherein receiving further includes interacting with an Operating System of a mobile device within the vehicle for turning on a wireless communication mechanism on the mobile device for communication with the mobile device when detecting that the mobile device is not communicating via the wireless communication mechanism before wirelessly communicating with the mobile device;
- obtaining, by the server, information relevant to an operation of the mobile device fin the vehicle;
- storing, by the server, the filtered OBDs and the information;
- and
- evaluating, by the server, a rule with respect to the filtered OBDs and the information and taking an action in response to evaluation of the rule.
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A system, comprising:
- a device adapted and configured to collect and to filter On-Board Diagnostics (OBDs) produced by a vehicle;
- and
- a mobile device controller adapted and configured to:
- i) apply rules to the filtered OBDs, ii) take actions to control one or more resources of a mobile device operational within the vehicle, iii) report information to remote server relevant to one or more of:
- the filtered OBDs, the actions, and other actions taken by a user with respect to one or more resources of the mobile device, and iv) turn on a wireless communication mechanism of the mobile device through interaction with an Operating System of the mobile device when detecting that the wireless communication mechanism is off for the mobile device to communicate with the remote server.
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The system of claim wherein the mobile device controller is further adapted and configured, in ii), to one of:
- a) lock down and black out a display screen of the mobile device when a particular filtered OBD indicates that the vehicle is exceeding a speed defined in a particular rule and b) lock down some or all Human Input Devices associated with the mobile device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.