Patent ID: 8571538

Claim:
A method of implementing parental controls on a mobile device, comprising: analyzing parental control configuration settings among user-accounts of a parental control system to generate a community-based configuration based on demographic information, the community-based configuration comprising parental control parameters that control mobile device functionality; making the generated community-based configuration available to users of a parental control settings server for selection; receiving a selection of one or more community-based configurations from a user of the parental control system; and pushing the parental control parameters of the one or more selected community-based configurations from the parental control settings server to the mobile device through a communication network; wherein at least one of the parental control parameters restricts features on the mobile device based on one of a time of day and physical location of the mobile device; and wherein the mobile device is a mobile phone; the communication network is a cellular network; and at least one of the parental control parameters restricts one of a texting function, voice call function and a camera function on the mobile phone.