Patent ID: 8855682

Claim:
A method performed by a cellular service provider for safe texting while driving utilizing text-voice conversion, comprising: determining that a user of a phone is a current driver of a vehicle; wherein the service provider determines that a user of a phone is a current driver of a vehicle in response to the user registering the phone as a master phone, wherein said registering is initiated by the current driver; determining that the user's phone is travelling at a velocity in excess of a disable threshold; disabling conventional text messaging for the phone; converting an incoming text message from a third party to voice and sending as a voice message to the phone; and processing a voice message from the user that the user intends to be sent as an outgoing text message according to a method comprising: receiving the voice message from the phone; converting the voice message from the phone to a text message; and forwarding the outgoing text message to a third party.