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Mobile device mode enablement responsive to a proximity criterion

  • US 9,462,411 B2
  • Filed: 11/04/2008
  • Issued: 10/04/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/04/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • sensing by a smartphone, using a smartphone-based sensor, physiological data associated with a living organism;

    detecting that a proximity criterion is satisfied between the smartphone and an entity, wherein the entity is not the living organism;

    selectively communicating by the smartphone using a first air interface of a plurality of air interfaces with which the smartphone is capable of communicating, responsive to the proximity criterion having been detected as being satisfied and responsive to a value of the physiological data associated with a living organism that was sensed by the smartphone using the smartphone-based sensor;

    refraining from communicating by the smartphone using the first air interface absent said value of the physiological data associated with a living organism that was sensed by the smartphone using the smartphone-based sensor satisfying a criterion, even though the proximity criterion is detected as being satisfied;

    selectively sending information by the smartphone to one or more other devices and receiving information by the smartphone from the one or more other devices responsive to said value of the physiological data associated with a living organism that was sensed by the smartphone using the smartphone-based sensor satisfying the criterion; and

    communicating by the smartphone using a second air interface of the plurality of air interfaces with which the smartphone is capable of communicating that differs from the first air interface.

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