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US 8,571,538 B2Granted
Web-based parental controls for wireless devices
AssigneeQUALCOMM Incorporated
InventorsStephen A. Sprigg, Hugo Swart
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Abstract
Methods, systems and devices to dynamically generate community based parental controls for cell devices based on most common parental control settings selected by members of the community. Communities may establish sponsored profiles on a parental control server that contains a community-based set of parental control settings. Parents may select a community based setting and modify each of the settings in accordance with the parents' personal preferences. The parental control server continually monitors the modifications to those settings and generates new community-based settings reflecting the most common modifications that may be selected by other parents.
Claims46
A method of implementing parental controls on a mobile device, comprising:
- analyzing parental control configuration settings among user-accounts of a parental control system to generate a community-based configuration based on demographic information, the community-based configuration comprising parental control parameters that control mobile device functionality;
- making the generated community-based configuration available to users of a parental control settings server for selection;
- receiving a selection of one or more community-based configurations from a user of the parental control system;
- and
- pushing the parental control parameters of the one or more selected community-based configurations from the parental control settings server to the mobile device through a communication network;
- wherein at least one of the parental control parameters restricts features on the mobile device based on one of a time of day and physical location of the mobile device;
- and
- wherein the mobile device is a mobile phone;
- the communication network is a cellular network;
- and at least one of the parental control parameters restricts one of a texting function, voice call function and a camera function on the mobile phone.
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A parental control settings server, comprising:
- a processor;
- a network interface coupled to the processor and configured to enable the processor to communicate with a communication network;
- and
- a memory coupled to the processor;
- wherein the processor is configured with processor-executable instructions to perform operations comprising:
- analyzing parental control configuration settings among user-accounts of a parental control system to generate a community-based configuration based on demographic information, the community-based configuration comprising parental control parameters that control mobile device functionality;
- making the generated community-based configuration available to users of a parental control settings server for selection;
- receiving a selection of one or more community-based configurations from a user of the parental control system;
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- pushing the parental control parameters of the one or more selected community-based configurations from the parental control settings server to a mobile device over the communication network to control the functionality of the mobile device;
- wherein at least one of the parental control parameters restricts features on the mobile device based on one of a time of day and physical location of the mobile device;
- and
- wherein the mobile device is a mobile phone;
- the communication network is a cellular network;
- and at least one of the parental control parameters restricts one of a texting function, voice call function and a camera function on the mobile phone.
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A parental control settings server, comprising:
- means for analyzing parental control configuration settings among user-accounts of a parental control settings system to generate a community-based configuration based on demographic information, the community-based configuration comprising parental control parameters that control mobile device functionality;
- means for making the generated community-based configuration available to users of a parental control settings server for selection;
- means for receiving a selection of one or more community-based configurations from a user of the parental control system;
- and
- means for pushing the parental control parameters of the one or more selected community-based configurations from the parental control settings server to a mobile device over a communication network;
- wherein at least one of the parental control parameters restricts features on the mobile device based on one of a time of day and physical location of the mobile device;
- and
- wherein the mobile device is a mobile phone;
- the communication network is a cellular network;
- and at least one of the parental control parameters restricts one of a texting function, voice call function and a camera function on the mobile phone.
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A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon processor executable instructions configured to cause a server processor to perform operations comprising:
- analyzing parental control configuration settings among user-accounts of a parental control system to generate a community-based configuration based on demographic information, the community-based configuration comprising parental control parameters that control mobile device functionality;
- making the generated community-based configuration available to users of a parental control settings server for selection;
- receiving a selection of one or more community-based configurations from a user of the parental control system;
- and
- pushing the parental control parameters of the one or more selected community-based configurations from the parental control settings server to the mobile device through a communication network;
- wherein at least one of the parental control parameters restricts features on the mobile device based on one of a time of day and physical location of the mobile device;
- and
- wherein the mobile device is a mobile phone;
- the communication network is a cellular network;
- and at least one of the parental control parameters restricts one of a texting function, voice call function and a camera function on the mobile phone.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.