METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATIC MOBILE ENDPOINT DEVICE CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT BASED ON USER STATUS OR ACTIVITY

• US 20140342714A1
• Filed: 05/17/2013
• Published: 11/20/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/17/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Conduent Business Services, LLC (Conduent, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Xerox Corporation (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: SANDERS, AARON DALE
• Granted Patent: US 9,113,299 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/418
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/08 Access security
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0209 in terminal devices terminal devices per se H04W88/02

Abstract

A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and apparatus for automatically configuring a mobile endpoint device are disclosed. For example, the method stores one or more pre-defined configuration settings for the mobile endpoint device, receives a location of the mobile endpoint device, identifies a location characteristic of the location of the mobile endpoint device and configures the mobile endpoint device with one of the one or more pre-defined configuration settings based upon the location and the location characteristic of the mobile endpoint device.

Claims

1. A method for configuring a mobile endpoint device, comprising:

storing, by a processor, one or more pre-defined configuration settings for the mobile endpoint device;

receiving, by the processor, a location of the mobile endpoint device;

identifying, by the processor, a location characteristic of the location of the mobile endpoint device; and

configuring, by the processor, the mobile endpoint device with one of the one or more pre-defined configuration settings based upon the location and the location characteristic of the mobile endpoint device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein each one of the one or more pre-defined configuration settings is associated with a different location and a different location characteristic.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the location comprises a global positioning system (GPS) coordinate.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the location characteristic of the location is predefined by a user of the mobile endpoint device.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the location characteristic of the location is based upon information obtained from a third party database.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the information in the third party database comprises a crime rate at the location.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the location characteristic of the location is based upon the information from the third party database being above a threshold.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein each one of the one or more pre-defined configuration settings comprises a change to at least one of:

a security setting, an application setting, a background processing setting, a power setting, a notification setting or a data connection setting.

9. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a plurality of instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations for configuring a mobile endpoint device, the operations comprising:

storing one or more pre-defined configuration settings for the mobile endpoint device;

receiving a location of the mobile endpoint device;

identifying a location characteristic of the location of the mobile endpoint device; and

configuring the mobile endpoint device with one of the one or more pre-defined configuration settings based upon the location and the location characteristic of the mobile endpoint device.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 9, wherein each one of the one or more pre-defined configuration settings is associated with a different location and a different location characteristic.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 9, wherein the location comprises a global positioning system (GPS) coordinate.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 9, wherein the location characteristic of the location is predefined by a user of the mobile endpoint device.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 9, wherein the location characteristic of the location is based upon information obtained from a third party database.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 13, wherein the information in the third party database comprises a crime rate at the location.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 13, wherein the location characteristic of the location is based upon the information from the third party database being above a threshold.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 9, wherein each one of the one or more pre-defined configuration settings comprises a change to at least one of:

a security setting, an application setting, a background processing setting, a power setting, a notification setting or a data connection setting.

17. A method for configuring a mobile endpoint device, comprising:

storing, by a processor, a plurality of pre-defined configuration settings for the mobile endpoint device, the plurality of pre-defined configuration settings including a home location configuration setting, a high crime location configuration setting and an office location configuration setting;

receiving, by the processor, a location of the mobile endpoint device;

identifying, by the processor, that the location of the mobile endpoint device is in a high crime location, a home location or an office location based upon the location of the mobile endpoint device; and

configuring, by the processor, the mobile endpoint device with one of the plurality of pre-defined configuration settings based upon the location and whether the location is the high crime location, the home location or the office location.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the location comprises a global positioning system (GPS) coordinate.

19. The method of claim 17, wherein the home location and the office location are predefined by a user of the mobile endpoint device.

20. The method of claim 17, wherein the high crime location is based upon a crime rate being above a threshold, wherein the crime rate is obtained from a third party database.