US 2020/0288010 A1 · STANDARD MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE DISTRACTION PREVENTION AND SAFETY PROTOCOLS

Abstract

Methods and systems for providing standardized mobile device distraction prevention and safety protocols are disclosed. In particular, an embodiment of a method for activating a distraction prevention or safety protocol behavior in a mobile device when the mobile device satisfies a specific condition is disclosed. The method includes discovering one or more protocol activators configured to transmit discovery information associated with a specific condition. The method further includes activating distraction prevention safety protocol behavior in the mobile device based at least in part on the discovery information. In an implementation, the specific condition may be a specified environment itself and or include an event when the mobile device enters a specified environment or a specified sequence of numbers is dialed from the mobile device.

Claims17

Dependent claims

A mobile device comprising:

a memory configured to store software instructions in at least one program module;
and
a processor configured to execute the software instructions from the at least one program module in the memory;
wherein the processor is configured to execute the software instructions in the at least one program module to:
discover at least one discovery information trigger signal transmitted by at least one transmitter corresponding to a modified universally unique identification (UUID) code, wherein the modified UUID code comprises a format formed through modification of at least one of a structure of a pre-existing UUID code format and a meaning of one or more bytes of the pre-existing UUID code format, and wherein at least a portion of the modified UUID code identifies a specified environment corresponding to a behavior;
and
activate the behavior in the mobile device based on the modified UUID code.

4 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

16/881,524Filed 22 May 2020

Priority

21 Sep 2009

Published

10 Sep 2020

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification23 codes

G08G 1/017
Detecting movement of traffic to be counted or controlled: identifying vehicles
G07C 9/29
Involving the use of a pass: the pass containing active electronic elements, e.g. smartcards
H04M 1/6075
Portable telephones adapted for handsfree use: adapted for handsfree use in a vehicle
H04M 1/67
Preventing unauthorised calls from a telephone set: by electronic means

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