MOBILE APPLICATION AND DEVICE FEATURE REGULATION BASED ON PROFILE DATA

• US 20170134906A1
• Filed: 11/10/2015
• Published: 05/11/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 11/10/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Yoo, Kenneth
• Granted Patent: US 9,854,405 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/027 using movement velocity, acceleration information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/18 Processing of user or subscriber data, e.g. subscribed services, user preferences or user profiles; Transfer of user or subscriber data
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/22 Processing or transfer of terminal data, e.g. status or physical capabilities
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

A drive safety application (app) that is controls other mobile app(s) and/or functionality of a communication device is centrally regulated via a network device. A manual override instruction can be provided to the network device by an authorized subscriber (e.g., via an online portal) and accordingly, the network device can instruct the communication device to disable the drive safety app. Profiling data is collected from various sources, such as, but not limited to, device sensors, location calculators, a vehicle'"'"'s onboard diagnostic system (e.g., OBD2) sensors (e.g., via wireless link), scanned access points, etc. The profiling data can be utilized to calibrate device sensors of the communication device and to determine a location and/or context of the user. Further, a set of the mobile apps can be disabled/enabled based on an analysis of the location and/or context.

Claims

1. A user equipment system, comprising:

a processor; and

a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising;

receiving, from a sensor of the user equipment, motion data related to indicative of a speed of the user equipment,

receiving, from a network device, profile data associated with the user equipment, and

employing the profile data to calibrate the motion data.

2. The user equipment of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise:

based on an analysis of the profile data and the motion data, determining location data indicative of a geographical location of the user equipment.

3. The user equipment of claim 2, wherein the operations further comprise:

based on the analysis, determining context data associated with the user equipment.

4. The user equipment of claim 3, wherein the operations further comprise:

based on the location data and the context data, determining that an application executed via the user equipment is to be enabled.

5. The user equipment of claim 3, wherein the operations further comprise:

based on the location data and the context data, determining that an application executed via the user equipment is to be disabled.

6. The user equipment of claim 5, wherein the operations further comprise:

based on the location data and the context data, determining a time period for which the application is disabled.

7. The user equipment of claim 5, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving, from the network device, override data that instructs the user equipment to prohibit disabling of the application, and wherein the override data is transmitted to the network device by an authorized device via a web server.

8. The user equipment of claim 5, wherein the operations further comprise:

determining hardware data associated with the sensor, and wherein the determining that the application of the user equipment is to be disabled comprises determining that the application of the user equipment is to be disabled based on the hardware data.

9. The user equipment of claim 5, wherein the determining that the application of the user equipment is to be disabled comprises determining that the application of the user equipment is to be disabled based on determining that a subscriber of the user equipment is driving a vehicle.

10. The user equipment of claim 1, wherein the profile data comprises preference data associated with the user equipment.

11. The user equipment of claim 1, wherein the profile data comprises historical data associated with the user equipment.

12. The user equipment of claim 1, wherein the sensor comprises an accelerometer.

13. The user equipment system of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise:

directing, to the network device, the motion data that is employable to update the profile data.

14. A method, comprising:

sensing, by a mobile device comprising a processor, motion data indicative of a speed of the mobile device;

receiving, by the mobile device, profile data associated with the mobile device from a network device of a communication network coupled to the mobile device; and

based on the profile data, calibrating, by the mobile device, the motion data.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

in response to determining that the profile data and the motion data satisfy a defined criterion, disabling, by the mobile device, an application of the mobile device.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the disabling comprises disabling the application in response to determining that a user identity associated with the mobile device is also associated with driving a vehicle.

17. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processor of a communication device, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:

based on sensor data received from a sensor of the communication device, determining motion data related to a speed of the communication device;

based on profile data associated with the communication device that is received from a network device, calibrating the motion data; and

in response to determining that the motion data satisfies a defined criterion, determining that an application of the communication device is to be deactivated.

18. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving, from the network device, override data that instructs the communication device to deny deactivation of the application.

19. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the determining that the application is to be deactivated comprises determining that the application is to be deactivated in response to determining that a user of the communication device is driving a vehicle.

20. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the sensor is an accelerometer.