Smoking substitute device
AssigneeImperial Tobacco Limited
InventorsDaniel Fard, Oliver Talbot, David Newns
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Abstract
A system for managing a smoking substitute device is described. The system comprises a smoking substitute device; and a mobile device configured to have a wireless connection with the smoking substitute device; wherein the system is configured to activate a geographic lock function on the smoking substitute device thereby disabling the smoking substitute device if the smoking substitute device and/or the mobile device is determined to have a geographical location that is within one or more predetermined geographical areas.
Claims19
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A system for managing a smoking substitute device, the system comprising:
- an external device;
- a smoking substitute device, the smoking substitute device comprising:
- a control unit;
- and
- an interface configured to communicate with an external device;
- wherein the control unit is configured to implement a proximity lock function configured to disable the smoking substitute device if a wireless connection between the smoking substitute device and the external device is absent for more than a predetermined period of time.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.