MOBILE DEVICE REGULATION THROUGH A DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE OF A VEHICLE TO MINIMIZE VEHICULAR ACCIDENTS
First Claim
1. A method comprising:
- generating, by a diagnostic device of a vehicle, a local area wireless network;
determining, by an administration server communicatively coupled to a machine-readable memory and the diagnostic device of the vehicle, that a mobile device located in an interior portion of the vehicle may be a controlled mobile device; and
regulating, by the local area wireless network, a functionality of at least one of the mobile device and the controlled mobile device based on a criteria stored in a database of the administration server.
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Abstract
A method, system, and apparatus related to mobile device regulation through a diagnostic device of a vehicle to minimize vehicular accidents are disclosed. In one aspect, a method of mobile device regulation involves accessing a diagnostic device of the vehicle, generating a local area wireless network through the diagnostic device of the vehicle and determining that a mobile device located in an interior portion of the vehicle is a controlled mobile device. Also, the method involves controlling a functionality of at least one of the mobile device and the controlled mobile device based on a criterion stored in a database of an administration server. The method may also include establishing a communication with the mobile device located in the interior portion of the vehicle. The method involves associating a level of control that corresponds with the controlled mobile device described in the database of the administration server.
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20 Claims
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1. A method comprising:
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generating, by a diagnostic device of a vehicle, a local area wireless network; determining, by an administration server communicatively coupled to a machine-readable memory and the diagnostic device of the vehicle, that a mobile device located in an interior portion of the vehicle may be a controlled mobile device; and regulating, by the local area wireless network, a functionality of at least one of the mobile device and the controlled mobile device based on a criteria stored in a database of the administration server. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A mobile device regulation system comprising:
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a diagnostic device of a vehicle to generate a local area wireless network in an interior portion of the vehicle; a client module of the mobile device to regulate a functionality of a mobile device based on a criteria stored in a database when located in the interior portion of the vehicle; and an administration server to communicatively couple an access to the database with the diagnostic device of the vehicle. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A non-transitory machine-readable medium, including instructions embodied therein that are executable through a data processing device, comprising:
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instructions to communicatively couple an administrative server to a diagnostic device of a vehicle; instructions to establish a local area wireless network in the vehicle through the diagnostic device of the vehicle; and instructions to regulate a functionality of a mobile device, through a client module of the mobile device, when paired to the diagnostic device through in the local area wireless network, wherein a criteria stored in a database of an administration server provides an extent of the regulation. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20)
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