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Configurable traffic zone control system

  • US 9,402,164 B2
  • Filed: 10/23/2014
  • Issued: 07/26/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/16/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of controlling wireless communications devices located in a vehicle, when the vehicle is in a particular traffic zone, the method comprising:

  • receiving at a first receiver in the vehicle, a first wireless signal, which is transmitted from a first transmitter at a location inside the particular traffic zone, the first wireless signal indicative of the existence of the particular traffic zone;

    receiving the first wireless signal at a wireless communications device disabler located in the vehicle, the wireless communications device disabler being configured to receive the first signal and broadcast a different second signal, which when received by a wireless communications device that is configured to receive the second signal, disables said wireless communications device;

    selectively broadcasting in the vehicle, the second wireless signal from the wireless communications device disabler, responsive to receiving the first wireless signal, the second wireless signal being broadcast by a second transmitter comprising the wireless communications device disabler and, which is also in the vehicle; and

    detecting the second wireless signal at a wireless communications device located in the vehicle, the wireless communications device being configured to be disabled responsive to receipt of the second wireless signal by said wireless communications device;

    wherein the first wireless signal does not include location information of the particular traffic zone.

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