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Selectively disabling a restricted mode of a user equipment based on detection of an emergency health condition

  • US 9,959,746 B1
  • Filed: 02/27/2017
  • Issued: 05/01/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/27/2017
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of operating a user equipment (UE), comprising:

  • determining an emergency health condition for a user that is defined based on a set of health-related parameters crossing a corresponding set of thresholds;

    receiving health data from a set of health monitoring sensors that are each configured to monitor one or more health-related parameters of the user;

    detecting, based on execution of a given application at the UE while a restricted mode restricting access to a set of communicative functions of the UE is active, that the emergency health condition for the user exists based on the received health data indicating that the set of health-related parameters have crossed the corresponding set of thresholds;

    verifying that the given application has permission to disable the restricted mode of the UE;

    disabling the restricted mode in response to the detecting and the verifying; and

    conveying, using one or more communicative functions from the set of communicative functions that are made available by the disabling of the restricted mode, an alarm related to the detected emergency health condition for the user.

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