Patent ID: 9325836
Filing Date: 2016-04-26
CPC Classification: H04M,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A Learning Guard System for protecting students in a classroom against distractions caused by a smart phone, comprising: a) A smart phone having downloaded and installed thereon an ‘app’ from a system provider's market place; b) installation of said ‘app’ requiring the student to sign in with a name and provide a list of emergency contacts, with respect to which phone calls should not be blocked; c) said list being stored in the memory of the smart phone and being also uploaded to the Learning Guard web based database in a cloud; d) the smart phone ‘app’ of the student communicating with a short range communication cube transmitter having battery back up mounted on a doorway to a classroom to acquire smart phone ID of a student entering the classroom doorway, and said ‘app’ turning off all functionality of the smart phone including voice, text communication, Internet access and playing of music or video files allowing only emergency contacts present in the emergency contact list in the memory of the smart phone to reach said smart phone during residence thereof within the classroom; e) said cube transmitter communicating the smart phone ID to a base station that is linked to an Internet cloud Learning Guard database application, updating a database of students in the classroom, recording the entry of the student into the doorway of the classroom with the smart phone functionality turned off, and the database of students in the classroom being made available to a teachers computer for use in the classroom; f) said teacher optionally using the classroom computer and the cube transmitter present within the classroom to restore functionality of the smart phone of a particular student and permit execution of a web search and other smart phone features; and g) said ‘app’ receiving communication from the short range cube transmitter to thereby turn on full functionality of the smart phone when the student leaves the classroom, whereby the student is isolated from smart phone distractions during residence in a classroom, thereby increasing the student's ability to concentrate what is being taught in the classroom.