Inhibiting unintended outgoing communication in mobile devices
AssigneeQUALCOMM Incorporated
InventorsRoman Tivyan, Babak Forutanpour, Daniel S. Baker
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Abstract
An embodiment is a technique for inhibiting unintended outgoing communication. A cost calculator calculates a cost value of an outgoing communication as a function of a plurality of parameters related to at least one of a voice parameter, an ambient parameter, a proximity parameter, a speech pattern parameter, a call parameter, and a noise parameter. A call suppressor suppresses the outgoing communication when the cost value exceeds a predetermined threshold.
Claims28
An apparatus comprising:
- a cost calculator to calculate a cost value of an outgoing communication as a function of a plurality of parameters related to at least one of a voice parameter, an ambient parameter, a proximity parameter, a speech pattern parameter, a call parameter, and a noise parameter, wherein the cost calculator comprises a weighted combiner to combine the plurality of parameters weighted by at least one of a voice weight, an ambient weight, a proximity weight, a speech pattern weight, a call weight, and a noise weight corresponding to the at least one of the voice parameter, the ambient parameter, the proximity parameter, the speech pattern parameter, the call parameter, and the noise parameter, respectively;
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- a call suppressor coupled to the cost calculator to suppress the outgoing communication when the cost value exceeds a predetermined threshold.
A method comprising:
- calculating a cost value of an outgoing communication in a mobile device as a function of a plurality of parameters related to at least one of a voice parameter, an ambient parameter, a proximity parameter, a speech pattern parameter, a call parameter, and a noise parameter, wherein calculating comprises weighted combining the plurality of parameters weighted by at least one of a voice weight, an ambient weight, a proximity weight, a speech pattern weight, a call weight, and a noise weight corresponding to the at least one of the voice parameter, the ambient parameter, the proximity parameter, the speech pattern parameter, the call parameter, and the noise parameter, respectively;
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- suppressing the outgoing communication when the cost value exceeds a predetermined threshold.
An article of manufacture comprising a machine-accessible storage medium including data that, when accessed by a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:
- calculating a cost value of an outgoing communication in a mobile device as a function of a plurality of parameters related to at least one of a voice parameter, an ambient parameter, a proximity parameter, a speech pattern parameter, a call parameter, and a noise parameter, wherein calculating comprises weighted combining the plurality of parameters weighted by at least one of a voice weight, an ambient weight, a proximity weight, a speech pattern weight, call weight, and a noise weight corresponding to the at least one of the voice parameter, the ambient parameter, the proximity parameter the speech pattern parameter, the call parameter, and the noise parameter, respectively;
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- suppressing the outgoing communication when the cost value exceeds a predetermined threshold.
An apparatus comprising:
- means for calculating a cost value of an outgoing communication as a function of a plurality of parameters related to at least one of a voice parameter, an ambient parameter, a proximity parameter, a speech pattern parameter, a call parameter, and a noise parameter, wherein the means for calculating comprises means for weighted combining the plurality of parameters weighted by at least one of a voice weight, an ambient weight, a proximity weight, a speech pattern weight, and a noise weight corresponding to the at least one of the voice parameter, the ambient parameter, the proximity parameter, the speech pattern parameter, the call parameter, and the noise parameter, respectively;
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- means for suppressing the outgoing communication when the cost value exceeds a predetermined threshold.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.