Patent ID: 7715854

Claim:
A method for monitoring operation of wireless personal electronic devices (PEDs) present on a mobile platform, comprising: defining at least one phase of operation of the mobile platform, where the use of wireless PEDs is prohibited; using a wireless communications system on the mobile platform to monitor and detect signals being transmitted by wireless PEDs present on the mobile platform; using said system to detect a transmission from a wireless PED located on the mobile platform, that occurs during said one phase of operation; recording an identification code associated with a specific one of said wireless PEDs, that is detected as operating during said one phase of operation, in a file; thereafter checking said file during a second phase of operation where use of said wireless PEDs is permitted; and denying use of said wireless communications system to said one wireless PED when said identification code of said one wireless PED is determined to be stored in said database, to prevent said wireless PED from communicating during said second phase of operation with a communications network remote from the mobile platform.