PHONE THAT PREVENTS CONCURRENT TEXTING AND DRIVING
First Claim
1. A phone comprising:
- a wireless transceiver to send and receive wireless communication signals;
a processor to execute code;
wherein the processor is (a) to make a determination that a user of the phone is sitting in a driver seat of a moving vehicle, without relying on any signal transmitted by a steering wheel of said vehicle, and without relying on Global Positioning System (GPS) data to differentiate between a phone-user who is a vehicular driver and a phone-user who is a vehicular passenger; and
(b) based on the determination, to block one or more features of the phone.
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Abstract
The present invention includes a phone able to detect or determine that a user of the phone is sitting in a driver seat of a moving vehicle. The determination may be based on, for example, captured front-side images, captured back-side images, captured audio, contextual analysis of textual messages, contextual analysis of phone conversations or intra-vehicular conversations, GPS data or other location data, or other parameters. Upon such determination, the phone may block one or more features or applications, such as texting or messaging. The present invention may reduce, eliminate or block occurrences of concurrent texting-and-driving, or other unsafe or illegal operations.
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20 Claims
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1. A phone comprising:
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a wireless transceiver to send and receive wireless communication signals; a processor to execute code; wherein the processor is (a) to make a determination that a user of the phone is sitting in a driver seat of a moving vehicle, without relying on any signal transmitted by a steering wheel of said vehicle, and without relying on Global Positioning System (GPS) data to differentiate between a phone-user who is a vehicular driver and a phone-user who is a vehicular passenger; and
(b) based on the determination, to block one or more features of the phone. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A portable electronic device comprising:
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a wireless transceiver to send and receive wireless communication signals; a processor to execute code; wherein the processor is (a) to make a determination that a user of the portable electronic device is sitting in a driver seat of a moving vehicle, and (b) based on the determination, to block one or more features of the portable electronic device; wherein the processor is to make the determination that the user of the phone is sitting inside said moving vehicle by taking into account Global Positioning System (GPS) data that is available to said phone; and
wherein the processor is to make the determination that the user of the phone is sitting particularly at the driver seat of said moving vehicle without relying on Global Positioning System (GPS) data that is available to said phone.
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