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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 04, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2015
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Vijayan Radhakrishnan, Chennai, IN;
Sridevi Rajendran, Chennai, IN;
Vijay A. Senthil, Chennai, IN;
Vinodkrishnan Surianarayanan, Chennai, IN;
Parthasarathi Kathiresan, Chennai, IN;
Rajasundaram Ganesan, Chennai, IN;
SriKamal Boyina, Chennai, IN;
Anand Chandrasekar, Chennai, IN;
Ramya Sundarraman, Chennai, IN;
Prabhu V. Mohan, Chennai, IN;
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
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.