Patent ID: 9749824
Date: 2017-08-29
CPC Classifications: G07C,H04W

Claim:
1. A method, comprising: executing, a mobile device controller on a relay device that is interfaced to an On-Board Diagnostics (OBD) port of a vehicle; filtering, by the mobile device controller, OBDs produced by the vehicle; and wirelessly communicating, by the mobile device controller through the relay device, the filtered OBDs to a mobile device application executing on a mobile device for controlling the mobile device based at least in part on the filtered OBDs, wherein wireless communicating further includes interacting with an Operating System (OS) of the mobile device for turning on a wireless communication mechanism of the mobile device when detecting that the mobile device is not communicating via the wireless communication mechanism before wirelessly communicating with the mobile device, and wherein wirelessly communicating further includes instructing, by the mobile device controller, the mobile device application to lock down and lock out a display screen of the mobile device in response to a particular filtered OBD indicating that the vehicle is moving to prevent access to the display screen of the mobile device while the vehicle is moving and permitting while the display screen of the mobile device is locked down the mobile device to conduct two-way audio communications.