Method and apparatus for recording events
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1. A method for detecting whether a particular mobile wireless device in a vehicle is encountering a fuel pump at a fuel station and controlling whether the fuel pump is activated, comprising:
- collecting data describing at least one encounter of a mobile wireless device provided in a vehicle with at least one other wireless located at a fuel station, said other wireless device being configured to control whether an electrically-powered fuel pump located at the fuel station can be activated in response to whether said static wireless device detects a digital handshake with a particular mobile wireless device;
conducting a digital handshake between said mobile wireless device and said at least one other wireless device over a wireless link;
preventing activation of said fuel pump in response to detection of a particular mobile wireless device; and
communicating a record of each said encounter between said mobile wireless device and said other wireless device that meets a criteria for determining that an encounter occurred to a recording device under substantially all circumstances without creating an intrusion to a user of said mobile wireless device.
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A data collection method for collecting data describing at least one encounter of a mobile wireless device with at least one other wireless device, said method comprising: conducting a digital handshake between said mobile wireless device and said at least one other wireless device over a wireless link; and communicating a record of said encounter between said mobile wireless device and said other wireless device to a recording device.
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1. A method for detecting whether a particular mobile wireless device in a vehicle is encountering a fuel pump at a fuel station and controlling whether the fuel pump is activated, comprising:
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collecting data describing at least one encounter of a mobile wireless device provided in a vehicle with at least one other wireless located at a fuel station, said other wireless device being configured to control whether an electrically-powered fuel pump located at the fuel station can be activated in response to whether said static wireless device detects a digital handshake with a particular mobile wireless device; conducting a digital handshake between said mobile wireless device and said at least one other wireless device over a wireless link; preventing activation of said fuel pump in response to detection of a particular mobile wireless device; and communicating a record of each said encounter between said mobile wireless device and said other wireless device that meets a criteria for determining that an encounter occurred to a recording device under substantially all circumstances without creating an intrusion to a user of said mobile wireless device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 23, 24)
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19. A method for detecting whether a particular mobile wireless device in a vehicle is encountering a fuel pump at a fuel station and controlling whether the fuel pump is activated, comprising:
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describing an encounter between a mobile wireless device provided in a vehicle and at least one other wireless device located at a fuel station, said other wireless device being configured to control whether an electrically-powered fuel pump located at the fuel station can be activated in response to whether said static wireless device detects a digital handshake with a particular mobile wireless device; conducting a digital handshake between said mobile device and said at least one other device over a wireless link when said mobile device and said at least one other wireless device are within a pre-determined range of each other; preventing activation of said fuel pump in response to detection of a particular mobile wireless device; and storing said record of said encounter in a data storage device remote from said mobile wireless device. - View Dependent Claims (20)
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21. A method for detecting whether a particular mobile wireless device in a vehicle is encountering a fuel pump at a fuel station and controlling whether the fuel pump is activated, comprising:
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collecting data describing at least one encounter of a mobile wireless device provided in a vehicle with at least one other wireless device that is static at a fixed location, said other wireless device being located at a fuel station and configured to control whether an electrically-powered fuel pump located at the fuel station can be activated in response to whether said static wireless device detects a digital handshake with a particular mobile wireless device; conducting a digital handshake between said mobile wireless device and said at least one other wireless device that is static at a fixed location over a wireless link; preventing activation of said fuel pump in response to detection of a particular mobile wireless device; and communicating a record of said encounter between said mobile wireless device and said other wireless device that is static at a fixed location to a remote recording device. - View Dependent Claims (22)
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