Driver device locking
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsMonit Gupta, Christopher C Kruger
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Abstract
Examples associated with driver device locking are described. One example includes obtaining a user profile associated with a driver of a vehicle. The user profile is obtained by a mobile device and contains information associated with the driver. Iris information of the user of the mobile device is compared to the iris information associated with the driver. Motion of the vehicle is monitored. Access to a feature of the mobile device is locked when the iris information of the user matches the iris information associated with the drive and the vehicle is in motion.
Claims15
A method, comprising:
- obtaining, in a mobile device, a user profile associated with a driver of a vehicle, where the user profile contains iris information associated with the driver;
- comparing iris information of a user of the mobile device to the to the iris information associated with the driver;
- monitoring motion of the vehicle;
- and
- locking access to a feature of the mobile device when the iris information of the user matches the iris information associated with the driver and the vehicle is in motion.
A mobile device, comprising:
- an iris scanner to periodically obtain an iris scan of a user of the mobile device;
- a profile module to obtain a profile of a driver of a vehicle upon determining that the mobile device has entered the vehicle based on contextual state information obtained by the mobile device, where the profile of the driver includes iris information associated with the driver;
- a feature lock module to control the mobile device to enter a state that disables a feature of the mobile device when the vehicle is in motion and the iris scan of the user matches the iris information in the profile of the driver.
A vehicle, comprising:
- an iris scanner to periodically obtain an iris scan of a driver of the vehicle;
- and
- a profile transmission module to control transmission of a profile of the driver of the vehicle to a mobile device within the vehicle, the profile including iris information associated with the driver of the vehicle,
- where the profile controls the mobile device to enter a state that disables a feature of the mobile device when the vehicle is in motion and an iris scan of the user obtained by the mobile device matches the iris information in the profile.
The vehicle of claim 15, comprising a motion transmission module to control transmission of motion information of the vehicle to the mobile device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.