MOBILE DEVICE SERVICES CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD

• US 20140155052A1
• Filed: 11/20/2013
• Published: 06/05/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/20/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kenneth Matthew Glover
• Original Assignee: Kenneth Matthew Glover
• Inventors: Glover, Kenneth Matthew
• Application Number:
  US14/085,582
• Publication Number:
  US 20140155052A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/419
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5054 Automatic deployment of services triggered by the service manager, e.g. service implementation by automatic configuration of network components
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5077 wherein the managed service relates to simple transport services, i.e. providing only network infrastructure
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/44 for communication between vehicles and infrastructures, e.g. vehicle-to-cloud [V2C] or vehicle-to-home [V2H]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication

Abstract

A system provides a means to enable and disable predetermined mobile device services to prevent driver distraction while operating a motor vehicle. Once a vehicle is turned on the Mobile Device Service Control algorithm determines a mobile device(s) and vehicle location to determine their proximity to each other. Services are enabled or disabled depending on the result of proximity determination.

Claims

8. A non-transitory computer readable medium embodying a computer program, the computer program comprising computer readable program code that, when executed by processing circuitry, causes the processing circuitry to:

receive vehicle data from a tracking device, the vehicle data including a vehicle status of a vehicle;

determine whether a vehicle status is ON;

determine whether a specified mobile device is ON;

receive mobile device data from the specified mobile device;

determine whether the specified mobile device is in a same location as the vehicle; and

in response to determining the specified mobile device is in the same location as the vehicle, disable a designated wireless service to the specified mobile device.

9. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 8, wherein the computer program further comprise computer readable program code that, when executed by the processing circuitry, causes the processing circuitry to:

in response to at least one of;

a determination the vehicle status is OFF, and

a determination the specified mobile device is not in the same location as the vehicle, enable the designated wireless service to the specified mobile device.

10. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 8, wherein the tracking device is coupled to the vehicle via a vehicle interface.

11. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 10, wherein the vehicle interface comprises at least one of:

an On-Board Diagnostics II (OBDII) communication bus,

a Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) J1939 vehicle bus, and

a standard control line.

12. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 8, wherein the computer program further comprises computer readable program code that, when executed by the processing circuitry, causes the processing circuitry to:

in response to a determination by the tracking device that the vehicle status is ON, receive the vehicle data.

13. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 8, wherein the computer program further comprises computer readable program code that, when executed by the processing circuitry, causes the processing circuitry to:

determine whether the specified mobile device is ON by;

determining whether the specified mobile device is active on a carrier network.

14. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 8, wherein the computer program further comprises computer readable program code that, when executed by the processing circuitry, causes the processing circuitry to:

determine whether the mobile device is in the same location as the vehicle based on a signal received from a speaker of vehicle through a microphone receiver of the mobile device.

15. A Mobile Device Services Control system comprising:

a tracking device configured to;

couple to a vehicle;

determine whether a vehicle status of the vehicle is ON;

send vehicle data to a server, the vehicle data including the vehicle status; and

broadcast an audio signal within the vehicle, wherein in response to a mobile device detecting the audio signal a designated wireless service for the mobile device is disabled.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein in response to the mobile device detecting the signal, the mobile device transmits a disable signal to a network server and wherein the network server is configured to in response to at least one of:

a determination the vehicle status is OFF, and

a determination the specified mobile device is not in the same location as the vehicle, enable the designated wireless service to the specified mobile device.

17. The system of claim 15, wherein the tracking device is coupled to the vehicle via a vehicle interface,

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the vehicle interface comprises at least one of:

an On-Board Diagnostics II (OBDII) communication bus, a Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) J1939 vehicle bus, and a standard control line.

20. The system of claim 15, wherein one of the server, the tracking device, and the mobile device is further configured to:

determine whether the mobile device is in the same location as the vehicle based on;

a signal received from a speaker of vehicle through a microphone receiver of the mobile device.

21. The system of claim 15, wherein the tracking device includes a satellite radio subscriber equipment.

19-1. The system of claim 19, wherein the determination whether the specified mobile device is ON is based on a determination whether the specified mobile device is active on a carrier network.