Motion-based user interface feature subsets

• US 9,813,900 B2
• Filed: 03/06/2015
• Issued: 11/07/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/01/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.), AT&T Mobility II LLC (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Meredith, Sheldon, Mustafa, Muayyad
• Primary Examiner(s): Duong, Hien
• Application Number:
  US14/641,242
• Publication Number:
  US 20150189502A1
• Time in Patent Office: 977 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/245 from a network towards a terminal

Abstract

Motion adaptive user equipment (UE) in a wireless communications network environment adapted for selecting one or more subsets of accessible user interface (UI) functions based, at least in part, on the determined motion of a UE, is disclosed. By selectively employing the one or more subsets of UI functions, a UE can dynamically adapt to the motion of the UE and limit distracting interactions with the UE creating a safer or more compliant wireless environment. Further disclosed are features related to override of UI limitations, auxiliary location sensing aspects, motion rule updating features, and voluntary and involuntary user preference aspects.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a memory to store executable instructions; and

a processor, coupled to the memory, that facilitates execution of the executable instructions to perform operations, comprising;

determining an overlapping region between a first geographic location region and a second geographic location region in response to receiving timed fingerprint location information based on a first differential timing measurement for a first NodeB site pair and a second differential timing measurement for a second NodeB site pair, wherein the first differential timing measurement is correlated to a first geographic location region and the second differential timing measurement is correlated to a second geographic location region, and wherein the first and second differential timing measurements are stored as part of the timed fingerprint location information to enable determining a location of the user equipment based on querying a data store device storing the timed fingerprint location information to enable the determining the overlapping region between the first geographic location region and the second geographic location region; and

determining a set of accessible user interface functions of the user equipment based on the overlapping region being determined to satisfy a condition related to a motion of the user equipment.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise determining an override state based on receiving a user input.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the determining the set of accessible user interface functions is further based on the override state.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise receiving secondary position information for a local environment from the user equipment.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the determining the set of accessible user interface functions is further based on the secondary position information.

6. The system of claim 4, wherein the secondary position information is associated with a position of the user equipment determined with regard to a reference location of the local environment.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise receiving a rule related to the determining the set of accessible user interface functions.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise generating a rule related to the determining the set of accessible user interface functions.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise accessing user preference information from a data store.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the user preference information represents a user preference associated with a user identity that is generated by input associated with an entity other than a user associated with the user identity.

11. The system of claim 9, wherein the user preference information represents a user preference associated with a user identity, and the user preference is generated based on input associated with the user identity.

12. A method, comprising:

identifying, by a system comprising a processor, an overlapping region between a first geographic location region and a second geographic location region in response to receiving mobile device motion information, the mobile device motion information comprising timed fingerprint location information based on a first differential timing measurement for a first NodeB site pair and a second differential timing measurement for a second NodeB site pair, wherein the first differential timing measurement is correlated to a first geographic location region and the second differential timing measurement is correlated to a second geographic location region, and wherein the first and second differential timing measurements are stored as part of the timed fingerprint location information to enable the identifying the overlapping region between the first geographic location region and the second geographic location region based on the first and second differential timing measurements; and

selecting, by the system, accessible user interface functions of the mobile device based on the overlapping region.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising determining, by the system, a limit to a function of a user interface of the mobile device based on the accessible user interface functions.

14. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

receiving, by the system, override information related to an override condition; and

determining, by the system, a limit to a function of a user interface of the mobile device based on the override information.

15. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

receiving, by the system, position information associated with a position of the mobile device relative to a local reference position that remains for a period of time substantially local to the mobile device; and

limiting, by the system, a functionality of a user interface of the mobile device based on the position information.

16. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

receiving, by the system, user preference information; and

limiting, by the system, a functionality of a user interface of the mobile device based on the user preference information.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the limiting comprises limiting of the functionality based on preference data determined to be associated with a user identity and based on input received for the user identity.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein the limiting comprises limiting of the functionality based on preference data determined to be associated with a user identity and determined for the user identity from input associated with an entity other than a user associated with the user identity.

19. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon that, in response to execution, cause a system comprising a processor to perform operations, comprising:

determining a location region based on an overlap between a first geographic region and a second geographic region in response to receiving mobile device motion information comprising timed fingerprint location information associated with a mobile device, wherein the timed fingerprint location information is based on a first differential timing measurement for a NodeB site pair and a second differential timing measurement for another NodeB site pair, wherein the first differential timing measurement is correlated to a first geographic region and the second differential timing measurement is correlated to a second geographic region, and wherein the first and second differential timing measurements are stored as part of the timed fingerprint location information to enable the determining the location region from the overlap between the first geographic region and the second geographic region based on the first and second differential timing measurements; and

determining a user interface function to expose via the mobile device based on the location region.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 19, wherein the determining the user interface function to expose is further based on user preference information associated with a user identity, and wherein the preference is determined from input associated with an entity other than a use associated with the user identity.