Modify voice calls with a moving driver to reduce distractions
OwnerJeffrey Haleyinventor
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Abstract
A system for reducing traffic accidents caused by distraction from a mobile telecom device. The system detects when the device is near a driver's seat of a moving vehicle. While the system is carrying a voice call between a remote voice device and the mobile device, the system modifies voice signal transmission between the devices by periodically playing a beep or other signal to remind the parties that one of them is driving and suspends voice signal transmission from the remote device to the mobile device when the system detects that circumstances affecting level of attention required for driving merit the driver paying greater attention.
Claims15
A method for reducing traffic accidents comprising:
- (a) having a telecom system including a mobile voice device that is connected to a telecom network, the mobile device being near a driver's seat of a vehicle moving at a speed that merits restricting functionality of the device to limit distraction of a driver;
- (b) while the system is carrying a voice call between a remote voice device and the mobile device, the system suspends voice signal transmission from the remote device to the mobile device when the system detects that circumstances affecting level of attention required for driving merit the driver paying greater attention;
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- (c) when circumstances affecting level of attention required for driving no longer merit the driver paying greater attention, voice signal transmission from the remote device to the mobile device is resumed.
A method for reducing traffic accidents comprising:
- (a) having a telecom system including a mobile voice device that is connected to a telecom network, the mobile device being near a driver's seat of a vehicle moving at a speed that merits restricting functionality of the device to limit distraction of a driver;
- (b) while the system is carrying a voice call between a remote voice device being used by a first party and the mobile device being used by a second party, the system modifies voice signal transmission between the devices by periodically playing a beep or other signal to remind the parties that one of them is driving.
A system for reducing traffic accidents comprising:
- (a) a mobile telecom voice device that is connected to a remote voice device across a telecom network;
- (b) a component that detects when the mobile device is near a driver's seat of a vehicle moving at a speed that merits modifying a functionality of the device to limit distraction of a driver;
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- (c) a voice call modifying component that, when the mobile device is near a driver's seat of a vehicle moving at a speed that merits restricting functionality of the device to limit distraction of a driver, modifies voice signals between the mobile device and the remote device;
- (d) wherein the modification comprises at least one of:
- (1) suspending voice signal transmission from the remote device to the mobile device when the system detects that circumstances affecting level of attention required for driving merit the driver paying greater attention;
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- (2) periodically playing a beep or other signal to remind the parties that one of them is driving.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.