Position and velocity-based mobile device management

• US 8,548,430 B2
• Filed: 11/01/2011
• Issued: 10/01/2013
• 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): Appiah, Charles
• Assistant Examiner(s): COSME, NATASHA W
• Application Number:
  US13/286,441
• Publication Number:
  US 20120046016A1
• Time in Patent Office: 700 Days
• Field of Search: 455/411
• US Class Current: 455/411
• 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;

receiving a control list that identifies at least one feature in a first mobile device, wherein the at least one feature includes a request to communicate with at least one second mobile device;

generating at least one association between the request and one of the positional control parameters;

associating the feature with at least one of a permitted feature and an un-permitted feature based on the association with the positional control parameters; and

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

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, 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 the 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, wherein the at least one feature is the request to communicate with the at least one second mobile device;

receiving the request 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 request and the positional attribute according to the set of one or more associations, whether the request is granted.

4. 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.

5. 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, wherein the at least one feature is a request to communicate with at least one second mobile device and wherein the positional attribute is a velocity;

receiving the request in the first mobile device;

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

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

denying the request if the velocity exceeds a predetermined threshold included in the set of one or more associations.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the set of one or more associations includes one or more identifiers for other mobile devices.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein said identifiers include at least one of a telephone number and user name.

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

9. The system of claim 6, the instructions further comprising instructions for denying the request if an identifier for the at least one 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 5, further comprising a server that includes a computer-readable medium tangibly embodying computer-executable instructions, the instructions comprising instructions for:

receiving the set of one or more positional control parameters;

receiving a control list that identifies the at least one feature in the first mobile device, wherein the at least one feature includes the request to communicate with the at least one second mobile device; and

generating the at least one association between the request and one of the positional control parameters.

11. The system of claim 5, the instructions further comprising instructions for associating the at least one second mobile device with at least one of a permitted party and un-permitted party.

12. The system of claim 5, further comprising instructions for granting the request in response to the request being a permitted feature and the at least one second mobile device being a permitted party based on the one or more associations.

13. A method, comprising:

downloading to a mobile device a first set of one or more associations between at least one feature in the 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;

querying for a second set of one or more associations between the at least one feature in the mobile device and the at least one positional control parameter, the second set of associations including at least one new association, wherein, based on the association with the positional control parameter, the at least one feature is associated with a permitted feature or an un-permitted feature; and

downloading to the mobile device a second set of one or more associations based on the querying, wherein the at least one feature includes a request to communicate with at least one second mobile device, the second mobile device being a permitted party or an un-permitted party.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising receiving a request from the mobile device for the sets of one or more associations.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein the querying occurs periodically at a predetermined period of time.

16. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

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

determining 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.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the specified feature is at least one of a game, a voice communication, a text communication, and a web browser.