System and method for controlling mobile services using sensor information
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1. A method for controlling access to functions available to respective ones of a plurality of user devices, comprising:
- receiving service requests from the user devices;
allowing or disallowing each of the user devices to access the respective requested function based on an application of pre-defined matching rules for matching access policies of the respective user devices with a respective representation of an environment for each of the user devices, at least one of the representations being based on information obtained from one or more updates received from the respective user devices, the information including state information concerning a physical environment of the respective user devices obtained from one or more sensors associated with the respective user devices, wherein allowing or disallowing at least one of the user devices to access a requested function includes disallowing access to the requested function if the state information indicates that the user device is in a pre-defined physical environment, the state information including one or more images that are captured by an image capture device associated with the user device and wherein matching the access policies of the respective user devices with a respective representation of an environment for each of the user devices includes matching the one or captured images to stored images.
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Abstract
A system includes a database of image data associated with a vehicle; and control logic configured to cause a user device to capture one or more images and compare data associated with the one or more images with the image data to determine if a user is present in a vehicle and disable a text messaging function at least in part responsive to the determination using the image data.
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1. A method for controlling access to functions available to respective ones of a plurality of user devices, comprising:
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receiving service requests from the user devices; allowing or disallowing each of the user devices to access the respective requested function based on an application of pre-defined matching rules for matching access policies of the respective user devices with a respective representation of an environment for each of the user devices, at least one of the representations being based on information obtained from one or more updates received from the respective user devices, the information including state information concerning a physical environment of the respective user devices obtained from one or more sensors associated with the respective user devices, wherein allowing or disallowing at least one of the user devices to access a requested function includes disallowing access to the requested function if the state information indicates that the user device is in a pre-defined physical environment, the state information including one or more images that are captured by an image capture device associated with the user device and wherein matching the access policies of the respective user devices with a respective representation of an environment for each of the user devices includes matching the one or captured images to stored images. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A server platform, comprising:
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a representation database for storing environmental sensory data obtained from transmissions received from a plurality of user devices; a user profile database for storing pre-defined matching rules for matching access policies of user devices with a respective representation of an environment for each of the user devices, at least one of the representations being based on the environmental sensory data stored in the representation database; a network interface for receiving the environmental sensory data and requests from one or more of the user devices to access one or more functions of the user devices; a recognition engine for allowing or disallowing the one or more of the user devices to access the respective requested functions based on a matching of the pre-defined matching rules with the respective representation of the environment for the user devices, wherein allowing or disallowing at least one of the user devices to access a requested function includes disallowing access to the requested function if the environmental sensory data indicates that the user device is in a pre-defined physical environment, the environmental sensory data including one or more images that are captured by an image capture device associated with the user device and wherein matching the pre-defined matching rules with the respective representation of the environment for the user device includes matching the one or captured images to stored images stored in the representation database. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13)
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14. A method for controlling access to functions available to respective ones of a plurality of user devices, comprising:
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receiving service requests from the user devices; allowing or disallowing each of the user devices to access the respective requested function based on an application of pre-defined matching rules for matching access policies of the respective user devices with a respective representation of an environment for each of the user devices, at least one of the representations being based on information obtained from one or more updates received from the respective user devices, the information including state information concerning a physical environment of the respective user devices obtained from one or more sensors associated with the respective user devices, wherein updates are periodically received from one of the user devices after initiation of monitoring the environment of the user device using the one or more sensors associated with the user device, the monitoring generating the state information included in the update.
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