Mobile device mode enablement/disablement responsive to sensing a physiological parameter
AssigneeTelcom Ventures, LLC
InventorsPeter D. Karabinis, Rajendra Singh
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Abstract
A method of enabling one or more functions of a device is disclosed. The method includes sensing by a device a physiological parameter of a user of the device. The device determines whether or not the physiological parameter that is sensed satisfies a criterion. Responsive to determining that the physiological parameter that is sensed satisfies the criterion, the device enables a number of functions of the device while disabling a function of the device.
Claims27
A method comprising:
- sensing by a device a physiological parameter of a user of the device;
- determining whether or not the physiological parameter that is sensed satisfies a criterion;
- and
- responsive to determining that the physiological parameter that is sensed satisfies the criterion, enabling a number of functions of the device while disabling a function of the device.
A device that is configured to perform operations comprising:
- sensing a physiological parameter of a user of the wireless device;
- determining whether or not the physiological parameter that is sensed satisfies a criterion;
- and
- responsive to determining that the physiological parameter that is sensed satisfies the criterion, enabling a number of functions while disabling a function.
A method comprising:
- sensing by a wireless device a physiological parameter of a user of the wireless device;
- determining whether or not the physiological parameter that is sensed satisfies a criterion;
- responsive to the physiological parameter sensed satisfying the criterion, enabling a number of functions of the wireless device;
- requesting by the wireless device from a second device an authorization to enable a function for conducting a financial transaction;
- responsive to the requesting, receiving by the wireless device from the second device the authorization to enable the function for conducting the financial transaction;
- responsive to receiving the authorization, enabling at the wireless device the function for conducting the financial transaction;
- and
- responsive to the wireless device satisfying a proximity condition relative to an entity and responsive to the wireless device sensing the physiological parameter and determining that the physiological parameter sensed satisfies the criterion, using the function for conducting the financial transaction and conducting the financial transaction by paying for a product.
A wireless device that is configured to perform operations comprising:
- sensing a physiological parameter of a user of the wireless device;
- determining whether or not the physiological parameter that is sensed satisfies a criterion;
- responsive to the physiological parameter sensed satisfying the criterion, enabling a number of functions of the wireless device;
- requesting from a second device an authorization to enable a function for conducting a financial transaction;
- responsive to the requesting, receiving from the second device the authorization to enable the function for conducting the financial transaction;
- responsive to receiving the authorization, enabling the function for conducting the financial transaction;
- and
- responsive to the wireless device satisfying a proximity condition relative to an entity and responsive to the wireless device sensing the physiological parameter and determining that the physiological parameter sensed satisfies the criterion, using the function for conducting the financial transaction and conducting the financial transaction by paying for a product.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.