Patent ID: 8548443

Claim:
A system for selectively restricting portable telephone features, the system comprising: a feature controller associated with a telephone wireless communication network and operable to accept predetermined feature restrictions for selected of plural portable telephones and to communicate the feature restrictions to the selected portable telephones, each feature restriction restricting performance of one or more portable telephone functions based upon predetermined conditions at each of the selected portable telephones; and a function application stored in memory of the plural portable telephones, the function application operable to receive the feature restrictions at the selected portable telephones and to apply the feature restrictions to disable the one or more portable telephone functions if the predetermined conditions are met; wherein the predetermined conditions comprise an academic testing location during an academic testing time period, wherein restricting the functions further comprises disabling a camera of the selected portable telephones, wherein the feature restrictions for any given one of the selected portable telephones is unlocked prior to the expiration of the academic testing time period if the portable telephone receives and authenticates a text message to unlock the feature restrictions, and if the authentication fails upon manual input of a code into the portable telephone.