Patent ID: 9294864
Filing Date: 2016-03-22
CPC Classification: G06F,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: determining, by an unintended-dialing detection and prevention system based on an unintended-dialing detection heuristic, a phone dialing pattern that is associated with a phone dialing event of a phone device and that specifies values for a set of physical attributes associated with the phone device and the phone dialing event, the set of physical attributes comprising a proximity of the phone device to one or more objects that are not associated with intended dialing; determining, by the unintended-dialing detection and prevention system based on the unintended-dialing detection heuristic, that the phone dialing pattern associated with the phone dialing event matches a predefined phone dialing pattern indicative of unintended dialing by comparing the values for the set of physical attributes specified by the phone dialing pattern to predefined values specified by the predefined phone dialing pattern and by determining a match value for each physical attribute included in the set of physical attributes based on the comparing, the predefined phone dialing pattern including different sets of predefined values for the set of physical attributes associated with the phone device at different time points; and automatically performing, by the unintended-dialing detection and prevention system in response to the determining that the phone dialing pattern associated with the phone dialing event matches the predefined phone dialing pattern indicative of the unintended dialing, an operation configured to prevent a placement of a phone call by the phone device in response to the phone dialing event.