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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 01, 2003
Filed:
Apr. 27, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Mazen Chmaytelli, San Diego, CA (US);
Samir K. Khazaka, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignee:
Qualcomm Inc., San Diego, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 1/66 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 1/66 ;
Abstract
A system and method for minimizing fraudulent usage of a mobile telephone, wherein data regarding an authorized user's prior usage of a mobile telephone is accumulated, data regarding a current user's usage of the mobile telephone is accumulated, the statistical variation in usage between the authorized user's prior usage and the current user's usage is analyzed, and the mobile telephone is deactivated if the variation in usage exceeds a predetermined threshold.