Patent ID: 8145241

Claim:
A method for controlling at least one feature of a mobile user device based on a locale and a role of a user of the mobile user device, the method comprising: storing, in a database, role information identifying a plurality of different roles assigned to different user types and corresponding locale-based mobile user device feature control policies; and in response to the mobile user device being within a locale: receiving a user device role request from the mobile user device over an air interface; sending available roles and corresponding policies to the mobile user device over the air interface; determining a role of a user of the mobile user device based on whether a role selection is received from the mobile user device; selecting, from the database, a locale-based mobile user device feature control policy corresponding to the role of the user; and controlling at least one feature of the mobile user device based on the locale-based feature control policy, wherein controlling at least one feature of the mobile user device based on the locale-based mobile user device feature control policy includes providing the locale-based mobile user device feature control policy corresponding to the determined role to the mobile user device to be processed at the mobile user device for controlling at least one of the at least one feature of the mobile user device based on the user device feature control policy.