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System and method for discouraging inappropriate use of a mobile device

  • US 9,621,707 B2
  • Filed: 01/06/2015
  • Issued: 04/11/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/07/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for discouraging the inappropriate use of a mobile device by a user comprising:

  • registering a mobile device with a monitoring application running on a system remote from the mobile device and coupled with a network;

    linking the mobile device with the monitoring application through the network;

    advising the user to change the operational status of the mobile device by putting the device in a selected disabled operational mode of the mobile device to prevent use of at least one communication feature of the mobile device;

    monitoring, at the mobile device, an operational status of the mobile device and detecting if the device user has engaged the mobile device and taken the device out of the selected disabled operational mode for restoring the at least one communication feature;

    reporting a change in the operational status of the mobile device made by the user to the monitoring application with time information that reflects the detection of when the mobile device was taken out of the selected disabled operational mode;

    displaying the operational status change and time information in a graphical interface associated with the monitoring application.

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