Patent ID: 9037136
Filing Date: 2015-05-19
Classification: G08B,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for detecting whether a particular mobile wireless device in a vehicle is encountering a fuel pump at a fuel station and controlling whether the fuel pump is activated, comprising: collecting data describing at least one encounter of a mobile wireless device provided in a vehicle with at least one other wireless located at a fuel station, said other wireless device being configured to control whether an electrically-powered fuel pump located at the fuel station can be activated in response to whether said static wireless device detects a digital handshake with a particular mobile wireless device; conducting a digital handshake between said mobile wireless device and said at least one other wireless device over a wireless link; preventing activation of said fuel pump in response to detection of a particular mobile wireless device; and communicating a record of each said encounter between said mobile wireless device and said other wireless device that meets a criteria for determining that an encounter occurred to a recording device under substantially all circumstances without creating an intrusion to a user of said mobile wireless device.