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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2012
Applicant:
Intuit Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventor:
Boris A. Fedorov, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
Intuit Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 1/00 (2006.01); H04W 4/02 (2009.01); H04M 1/725 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/027 (2013.01); H04M 2250/12 (2013.01); H04M 1/72569 (2013.01);
Abstract
The disclosed embodiments relate to a system that enables a user to continue accomplishing a task on a handheld device while moving. During operation, the system tracks the speed of the handheld device while the user is interacting with an application on the device. If the speed is greater than a pre-determined speed, the system audibly prompts the user to enable hands-free mode. If the user says yes, the system enables hands-free mode and the user may continue to use the application in hands-free mode. Otherwise, the system continues to run the application without enabling hands-free mode.