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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 2020

Filed:

Oct. 02, 2019
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Adaoha Onyekwelu, Wappingers Falls, NY (US);

Kevin Bruckner, Wappingers Falls, NY (US);

Ann Novelli, Austin, TX (US);

Theresa Hans, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 48/02 (2009.01); H04W 12/06 (2009.01); H04W 4/30 (2018.01); H04W 12/08 (2009.01); H04W 12/00 (2009.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 12/0605 (2019.01); H04L 43/065 (2013.01); H04W 4/30 (2018.02); H04W 12/0027 (2019.01); H04W 12/00508 (2019.01); H04W 12/0802 (2019.01); H04W 48/02 (2013.01);
Abstract

Techniques for automatic mobile device usage restriction are described herein. An aspect includes monitoring user data of a user of a mobile device from a plurality of data sources in the mobile device. Another aspect includes learning normal behavior of the user based on the monitoring. Another aspect includes identifying outlier behavior by the user that deviates from the normal behavior based on the monitoring. Another aspect includes determining a restriction state based on the outlier behavior. Yet another aspect includes restricting access to at least one functionality of the mobile device based on the restriction state.


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