Telecommunications – Radiotelephone system – Zoned or cellular telephone system
Reexamination Certificate
2011-01-18
2011-01-18
Rampuria, Sharad (Department: 2617)
Telecommunications
Radiotelephone system
Zoned or cellular telephone system
C455S410000, C455S411000, C455S569200, C455S420000, C455S404200
Reexamination Certificate
active
07873374
ABSTRACT:
Restrictions on use of a cellular telephone in a vehicle, such as an automobile, are imposed using a global position system (GPS) device to determine the location of a vehicle in relation to geographic regions in which legal or customer restrictions on cellular telephone use are to be imposed. Network or local short-range wireless transmitters supply information to a cellular telephone describing potentially applicable restriction information retrieved from network databases. In response, a cellular telephone determines applicability of such restrictions and applies them to further use of the cellular telephone while such restrictions continue to apply. Alternative arrangements allow vehicle-based or network based processing of region and restrictions information to yield command messages to cellular telephones to control their further use.
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