Mobility call management
AssigneeAegis Mobility, Inc.
InventorsDavid John Kiddie, John Joseph Geyer, Mandy Chan
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Abstract
A mobility call management service is disclosed that provides enhanced call management functionality for a wireless mobile terminal (MT). Incoming and/or outgoing calls are managed based on an assessment of the degree of motion of the MT, or other available data pertinent to the MT's physical situation, such as but not limited to it's location, movement, or rate of movement. The degree of motion or other assessment may be used to determine whether a communication can safely terminate on, originate from, or continue safely on the MT, so as to reduce or remove driver distraction.
Claims22
A method of processing communications between a remote terminal and a mobile terminal, comprising:
- determining a risk assessment state of a mobile terminal based at least in part on a degree of motion of the mobile terminal, wherein the risk assessment state is characterized as:
- a low risk assessment state associated with a degree of motion below a first threshold,
- a medium risk assessment state associate with a degree of motion above the first threshold and below a second threshold, or
- a high risk assessment state associated with a degree of motion above the second threshold;
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- processing a request for an information exchange between a remote terminal and the mobile terminal based at least in part on the determined risk assessment state of the mobile terminal, wherein:
- if the determined risk assessment state corresponds to the low risk assessment state, the request for the information exchange between the remote terminal and the mobile terminal is allowed,
- if the determined risk assessment state corresponds to the medium risk assessment state, the call is routed to the risk mitigation logic operable transmit information to the mobile terminal causing the mobile terminal to inform a user of the mobile terminal of the request for the information exchange, and
- if the determined risk assessment state corresponds to the high risk assessment state, the request for the information exchange between the remote terminal and the mobile terminal is not allowed.
A system for processing communications between a remote terminal and a mobile terminal, the system comprising:
- one or more computing devices operable to:
- determine a risk assessment state of a mobile terminal based at least in part on a degree of motion of the mobile terminal, wherein the risk assessment state is associated with a predefined risk assessment state corresponding to:
- a first risk assessment state indicating that the mobile terminal is available to exchange information with a remote terminal,
- a second risk assessment state indicating that the mobile terminal is available to communicate with a remote terminal only after an acknowledgement of the second risk assessment state by a user of the mobile terminal, or
- a third risk assessment state indicating that the mobile terminal is unavailable to exchange information with a remote terminal;
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- process a request for an information exchange between the remote terminal and the mobile terminal based at least in part on the determined risk assessment state of the mobile terminal, wherein:
- if the determined risk assessment state corresponds to the first risk assessment state, the information exchange between the remote terminal and the mobile terminal is allowed,
- if the determined risk assessment state corresponds to the second risk assessment state, the mobile terminal is caused to request acknowledgement by the user of the mobile terminal of the second risk assessment state, and
- if the determined risk assessment state corresponds to the third risk assessment state, the information exchange between the remote terminal and the mobile terminal is not allowed.
A computer-readable, non-transitory storage medium having computer-executable modules for processing communications between a remote terminal and a mobile terminal, the system comprising:
- a risk management module operable to:
- determine a risk assessment state of a mobile terminal based at least in part on a degree of motion of the mobile terminal, the risk assessment state corresponding to:
- a first risk assessment state indicating that the mobile terminal is available to exchange information with a remote terminal,
- a second risk assessment state indicating that the mobile terminal is available to communicate with a remote terminal only after an acknowledgement of the second risk assessment state by a user of the mobile terminal, or
- a third risk assessment state indicating that the mobile terminal is unavailable to exchange information with a remote terminal;
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- process a request for an information exchange between the mobile terminal and the remote terminal based at least in part on the determined risk assessment state of the mobile terminal, wherein:
- if the determined risk assessment state corresponds to the first risk assessment state, the information exchange between the remote terminal and the mobile terminal is allowed,
- if the determined risk assessment state corresponds to the second risk assessment state, the mobile terminal is caused to request acknowledgement by the user of the mobile terminal of the second risk assessment state, and
- if the determined risk assessment state corresponds to the third risk assessment state, the information exchange between the remote terminal and the mobile terminal is not allowed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.