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Anand Chandrasekar

Vijay A Senthil

Vijayan Radhakrishnan

Prabhu V Mohan

Sridevi Rajendran

Ramya Sundarraman

Parthasarathi Kathiresan

Vinodkrishnan Surianarayanan

SriKamal Boyina

Vinod Krishnan Surianarayanan

Rajasundaram Ganesan

Raja Sundaram Ganesan

A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium provide to determine whether a user of the user device is being transported by a vehicle; determine whether any of multiple events pertaining to a message application is detected in response to a determination that the user is being transported by the vehicle; obtain input characteristic data attributed to the user in response to a determination that any of the multiple events is detected; determine whether the user is a driver of the vehicle based on the input characteristic data; and block receipt of an inbound message and a creation of an outbound message in response to a determination that the user is the driver of the vehicle.

Message blocker

A network device receives battery status signals for multiple mobile devices and receives a notification of an incoming call from a calling device to a particular mobile device. The network device determines if a battery status, from the battery status signals, is available for the particular mobile device and provides, to the calling device, a challenge to solicit a categorization of the incoming call as important or not important when a battery status is available for the particular mobile device. The network device receives, from the calling device, a response to the challenge, wherein the response includes the categorization of the incoming call. The network device connects the incoming call from the calling device to the particular mobile device when the categorization of the incoming call is important.

Low battery indication for callers to mobile device

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