Patent ID: 8044794

Claim:
A vehicle wireless communications blocker to be used in a vehicle for an occupant's wireless communications device including a long-range wireless transceiver and a short-range wireless transceiver both coupled to a controller, the controller switchable between off-hook and on-hook states based upon control signals via the short-range wireless transceiver, the occupant's wireless communications device being blocked from occupant communication via the long-range transceiver when in the off-hook state, the vehicle wireless communications blocker comprising: a short-range wireless transceiver to wirelessly communicate with the short-range wireless transceiver of the occupant's wireless communications device; and a controller coupled to said short-range wireless transceiver to selectively switch the controller of the occupant's wireless communications device to the off-hook state so that the occupant's wireless communications device is blocked from occupant communication via the long-range transceiver.