Method and system for controlling a mobile communication device
First Claim
1. A method of determining if a vehicle is being driven by one or more vehicle operators associated with the vehicle, comprising the steps of:
- obtaining one or more inputs indicative of an operational status of the vehicle and a vehicle identification;
obtaining one or more inputs indicative of a location of the vehicle and a time of location of the vehicle;
obtaining one or more inputs indicative of a location of one or more controllable mobile devices registered with the vehicle; and
determining, using computation equipment, the identity of the one or more vehicle operators that is operating the vehicle using the one or more inputs indicative of the operational status of the vehicle, the vehicle identification, the location of the vehicle, the time of location of the vehicle, and the location of the one or more controllable mobile devices registered with the vehicle.
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Abstract
Disclosed herein is a method and system for detecting, monitoring and/or controlling one or more of mobile services for a mobile communication device (also referred to herein as a Controllable Mobile Device or CMD), and in particular, when the device is being used and the vehicle, operated by the user of the device, is moving. The present method and system determines whether the vehicle is being operated by a user that may also have access to a mobile communication device which, if used concurrently while the vehicle is in operation, may lead to unsafe operation of the vehicle. If the mobile services control system determines that a vehicle operator has potentially unsafe access to a mobile communication device, the mobile services control system may restrict operator access to one or more services that would otherwise be available to the operator via the mobile communication device.
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58 Claims
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1. A method of determining if a vehicle is being driven by one or more vehicle operators associated with the vehicle, comprising the steps of:
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obtaining one or more inputs indicative of an operational status of the vehicle and a vehicle identification; obtaining one or more inputs indicative of a location of the vehicle and a time of location of the vehicle; obtaining one or more inputs indicative of a location of one or more controllable mobile devices registered with the vehicle; and determining, using computation equipment, the identity of the one or more vehicle operators that is operating the vehicle using the one or more inputs indicative of the operational status of the vehicle, the vehicle identification, the location of the vehicle, the time of location of the vehicle, and the location of the one or more controllable mobile devices registered with the vehicle. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A method of predicting if a vehicle is being driven by one or more vehicle operators associated with the vehicle, comprising the steps of:
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obtaining one or more inputs indicative of an operational status of the vehicle and a vehicle identification; obtaining one or more inputs indicative of a location of one or more operators associated with the vehicle; obtaining one or more inputs indicative of a location of one or more controllable mobile devices registered with the vehicle; and predicting, using computation equipment, the identity of the one or more vehicle operators that is operating the vehicle using the one or inputs indicative of the operational status of the vehicle, the one or more inputs indicative of a location of the one or more operators associated with the vehicle and the one or more inputs indicative of a location of one or more controllable mobile devices registered with the vehicle. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53)
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54. A method of predicting if a vehicle is being driven by one or more vehicle operators associated with the vehicle, comprising the steps of:
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obtaining one or more inputs indicative of an operational status of the vehicle and a vehicle identification; obtaining one or more inputs indicative of a location within the vehicle boundary of one or more controllable mobile devices registered with the vehicle comprises one or more of i) a unique wireless signal and ii) an input indicative of motion and time of motion of the one or more controllable moveable devices registered within the vehicle; and predicting, using computation equipment, the identity of the one or more vehicle operators that is operating the vehicle using the one or more inputs indicative of the operational status of the vehicle and the location with the vehicle boundary of the one or more controllable mobile devices registered with the vehicle. - View Dependent Claims (55, 56, 57, 58)
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