Patent ID: 8478237
Filing Date: 2013-07-02
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
1. A system for effectively preventing operation of a land vehicle having an interior when at least one communication functionality of a mobile phone is in use within the interior, the system comprising: a power source; a dual-mode mobile phone disabler including wherein in a first mode, prior to the vehicle being turned on, the processor, via the antenna, searches for and detects a communication signal from the mobile phone within the interior of the vehicle when the at least one communication functionality of the mobile phone is in use and in response to the detected communication signal, the processor prevents the vehicle from being turned on until the processor, via the antenna, detects no use of the at least one communication functionality of the mobile phone, the at least one communication functionality includes communication with a cell site, the communication signal is indicative of use of the at least one communication functionality, and wherein in a second mode, after the vehicle has been turned on, the processor, via the antenna, periodically communicates with the mobile phone within the interior of the vehicle to keep disabled the at least one communication functionality of the mobile phone and upon the vehicle being turned off, the antenna ceases to communicate, the disabler entering the second mode upon completion of the first mode and the first mode upon completion of the second mode.