Patent ID: 8676268

Claim:
A method of inhibiting the use of a mobile communication device while in motion comprising the acts of: (a) The mobile communication device: (i) repeatedly obtaining time stamped mobile device GPS data of its location, storing the current environmental/geometrical context in computer memory; and, (ii) said mobile communication device self-determining its movement from said mobile device GPS data given its environmental/geometrical context, and (iii) initially inhibiting at least one transmitting, receiving and on-going communication channel of the mobile communications device in response to said act of self-determining the mobile communications device's velocity reaching a minimum velocity value; and (b) having a communications synchronization between: (i) said mobile communications device; and (ii) a separate vehicle communication device which has a GPS sensor to obtain vehicle GPS data of its location; (c) wherein, when said mobile communication device both: (i) has said communication synchronization between it and said vehicle communication device to compare the mobile device GPS data of the mobile communication device to the vehicle GPS data of the vehicle communication device; and, (ii) is outside a vicinity in the vehicle corresponding to the driver location based on the comparison of the mobile device GPS data of the mobile communication device and the vehicle GPS data of the vehicle communication device, then said vehicle communication device signals said mobile communication device and suspends said inhibiting of said at least one communication channel of the mobile communications device.