Patent ID: 9674337
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: H04M,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for distraction mitigation comprising: receiving one or more signals containing location information associated with one or more emitters, wherein the one or more emitters are located within a vehicle; determining under instructions from a microprocessor a location of a mobile device within the vehicle in response to receiving the one or more signals associated with the location information associated with the one or more emitters; receiving a signal containing zone information defining one or more zones of a plurality of zones in the vehicle; determining at the mobile device if the mobile device is located within the one or more zones of the plurality of zones in the vehicle in response to receiving the signal generated in the vehicle containing the zone information; and modifying the behavior of the mobile device under instructions from the microprocessor in response to the one or more zones, that the mobile device is determined to be in; where the location information and the zone information .s are added to an audio signal and the location information and the zone information are masked in response to a time and frequency based psychoacoustic model that is utilized to determine where within the audio signal the location information and the zone information are added to the audio signal.