Position and velocity-based mobile device management

• US 8,069,479 B2
• Filed: 11/27/2007
• Issued: 11/29/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 11/27/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Inventors: O'Neill, David J.
• Primary Examiner(s): CHEN, SHIN HON
• Application Number:
  US11/945,631
• Publication Number:
  US 20090138949A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,463 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 726/21
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096716 where the received information does not generate an automatic action on the vehicle control
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096741 where the source of the transmitted information selects which information to transmit to each vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096775 where the origin of the information is a central station
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/107 wherein the security policies are location-dependent, e.g. entities privileges depend on current location or allowing specific operations only from locally connected terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• 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 4/027 using movement velocity, acceleration information

Abstract

A set of one or more positional control parameters includes at least one of a geographic limit, a velocity limit, and a direction of travel limit. A control list identifies at least one feature in a mobile device. The at least one feature may be associated with at least one of the positional control parameters.

Claims

1. A system comprising a server that includes a computer-readable medium tangibly embodying computer-executable instructions, the instructions comprising management control instructions for:

receiving a set of one or more positional control parameters, the positional control parameters including at least one of a geographic limit, a velocity limit, and a direction of travel limit;

receiving a control list that identifies at least one feature in a first mobile device;

associating the at least one feature with at least one of the positional control parameters, thereby generating at least one association between one of the features and one of the positional control parameters, the at least one feature being one of a permitted feature and un-permitted feature based on the association; and

associating, in response to the feature being a permitted feature and in response to the feature being a request to communicate with at least one second mobile device, the second mobile device with at least one of a permitted party and an un-permitted party; and

storing the management control instructions in a database.

2. The system of claim 1, the instructions further comprising instructions for:

receiving the request from the first mobile device for the at least one association; and

transmitting the at least one association to the first mobile device.

3. The system of claim 1, the at least one feature including at least one of a game, a voice communication, a text communication, and a web browser.

4. The system of claim 1, further comprising a first mobile device including a computer-readable medium tangibly embodying computer-executable instructions, the management control instructions comprising instructions for:

downloading from the database a set of one or more associations between the at least one feature in the first mobile device and the at least one positional control parameter selected from one of the geographic limit, velocity limit, and direction of travel limit;

receiving a request to access a specified feature in the first mobile device;

determining the at least one positional attribute of the first mobile device; and

determining, based at least in part on evaluating the specified feature and the positional attribute according to the set of one or more associations, whether the request is granted.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the control list identifies the at least one second mobile device as a permitted party based on preferences associated with the first mobile device.

6. A system comprising a first mobile device including a computer-readable medium tangibly embodying computer-executable instructions, the instructions comprising instructions for:

downloading a set of one or more associations between at least one feature in the first mobile device and at least one positional control parameter selected from one of a geographic limit, a velocity limit, and a direction of travel limit;

receiving a request to access a specified feature in the first mobile device;

determining at least one positional attribute of the first mobile device;

determining whether the specified feature is a permitted feature based at least in part on evaluating the specified feature and the positional attribute according to the set of one or more associations;

determining, in response to the specified feature being a permitted feature, if the specified feature is a request to communicate with at least one second mobile device; and

determining, in response to the specified feature being a request to communicate with the at least one second mobile device, if the second mobile device is a permitted party independent of the permitted feature.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the set of one or more associations includes one or more identifiers for other mobile devices.

8. The system of claim 6, the instructions further comprising instructions for denying the request if an identifier for the second mobile device is not included in the one or more identifiers.

9. The system of claim 7, the instructions further comprising instructions foi denying the request if an identifier for the second mobile device is not associated with the at least one positional attribute in the set of one or more associations.

10. The system of claim 6, wherein the positional attribute is a velocity, the instructions further comprising instructions for denying the request if the velocity exceeds a predetermined threshold included in the set of one or more associations.

11. The system of claim 6, further comprising a server that includes a computer-readable medium tangibly embodying computer-executable instructions, the instructions comprising instructions for:

receiving a set of one or more positional control parameters, the positional control parameters including at least one of a geographic limit, a velocity limit, and a direction of travel limit;

receiving a control list that identifies the at least one feature in the first mobile device;

associating the at least one feature with at least one of the positional control parameters, thereby generating at least one association between one of the features and one of the positional control parameters;

receiving the request from the first mobile device for the at least one association; and

transmitting the at least one association to the first mobile device.

12. The system of claim 6, wherein the set of one or more associations includes defining the at least one second mobile device as a permitted party.

13. The method of claim 6, further comprising granting the request in response to the specified feature being a permitted feature and the second mobile device being a permitted party.

14. A method, comprising:

receiving, in a server, a set of one or more positional control parameters, the positional control parameters including at least one of a geographic limit, a velocity limit, and a direction of travel limit;

receiving a control list that identifies at least one feature in a first mobile device;

associating the at least one feature with at least one of the positional control parameters, thereby generating at least one association between one of the features and one of the positional control parameters, the at least one feature being one of a permitted feature and un-permitted feature based on the association; and

associating, in response to the feature being a permitted feature and in response to the feature being a request to communicate with at least one second mobile device, the second mobile device with at least one of a permitted party and an un-permitted party; and

storing the management control instructions in a database.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

receiving the request from the first mobile device for the at least one association; and

transmitting the at least one association to the first mobile device.

16. The method of claim 14, the at least one feature including at least one of a game, a voice communication, a text communication, and a web browser.

17. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

downloading to the first mobile device, from the database, a set of one or more associations between the at least one feature in the first mobile device and the at least one positional control parameter selected from one of the geographic limit, velocity limit, and direction of travel limit;

receiving a request to access a specified feature in the first mobile device;

determining the at least one positional attribute of the first mobile device; and

determining, based at least in part on evaluating the specified feature and the positional attribute according to the set of one or more associations, whether the request is granted.

18. A method, comprising:

downloading to a first mobile device a set of one or more associations between at least one feature in the first mobile device and at least one positional control parameter selected from one of a geographic limit, a velocity limit, and a direction of travel limit;

receiving a request to access a specified feature in the first mobile device;

determining at least one positional attribute of the first mobile device;

determining whether the specified feature is a permitted feature based at least in part on evaluating the specified feature and the positional attribute according to the set of one or more associations;

determining, in response to the specified feature being a permitted feature, if the specified feature is a request to communicate with at least one second mobile device; and

determining, in response to the specified feature being a request to communicate with the at least one second mobile device, if the second mobile device is a permitted party independent of the permitted feature.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the set of one or more associations includes one or more identifiers for other mobile devices.

20. The method of claim 19, further comprising denying the request if an identifier for the second mobile device is not included in the one or more identifiers.

21. The method of claim 19, further comprising denying the request if the identifier for the second mobile device is not associated with the at least one positional attribute in the set of one or more associations.

22. The method of claim 18, wherein the positional attribute is a velocity, the method further comprising denying the request of the velocity exceeds a predetermined threshold included in the set of one or more associations.

23. The method of claim 18, further comprising:

receiving, in a server, a set of one or more positional control parameters, the positional control parameters including at least one of a geographic limit, a velocity limit, and a direction of travel limit;

receiving, in the server, a control list that identifies at least one feature in the first mobile device;

associating, in the server, the at least one feature with at least one of the positional control parameters, thereby generating at least one association between one of the features and one of the positional control parameters;

receiving, in the server, a request from the first mobile device for the at least one association; and

transmitting the at least one association to the first mobile device from the server.

24. The method of claim 18, further comprising granting the request in response to the specified feature being a permitted feature and the second mobile device being a permitted party.