Patent ID: 8712628

Claim:
A vehicle control and monitoring system, comprising: a vehicle device comprising a processing subsystem, a communication subsystem that communicates over a wireless medium, and a memory subsystem that stores processing instructions that are executable by the processing subsystem and upon such execution cause the vehicle device to perform operations comprising: determining an operational status of a vehicle in which the vehicle device is located; receiving over a first wireless protocol, from a mobile communication device separate from the vehicle device, and wherein the mobile communication device communicates over the first wireless protocol and a second wireless protocol, operating data describing an operation being performed by the mobile communication device over the second wireless protocol; accessing usage policy data that describes a usage policy of the mobile communication device during vehicle operation; and in response to determining by the vehicle device, based on the operational status of the vehicle and the operation being performed by the mobile communication device, that a usage policy violation has occurred, generating, by the vehicle device, policy violation data describing the usage policy violation.