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System and method for controlling mobile services using sensor information

  • US 9,930,522 B2
  • Filed: 08/19/2016
  • Issued: 03/27/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/21/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for controlling access to functions available to respective ones of a plurality of user devices, comprising:

  • receiving service requests from the user devices;

    allowing or disallowing each of the user devices to access the respective requested function based on an application of pre-defined matching rules for matching access policies of the respective user devices with a respective representation of an environment for each of the user devices, each of the representations being based on information obtained from updates periodically received from the respective user devices, the information including state information concerning a physical environment of the respective user devices obtained from one or more sensors associated with the respective user devices, wherein allowing or disallowing at least one of the user devices to access a requested function includes disallowing access to the requested function if the state information indicates that the user device is in a pre-defined physical environment, the state information including one or more images that are captured by an image capture device associated with the user device.

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