Mobile Terminal Function Restriction Automation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current mobile terminal devices require administrators to constantly set and release function restrictions, making it inconvenient for employees to make calls outside the company, as they need manual intervention to enable or disable call functions.
Innovation Solution
A mobile terminal device with a storing unit for initial setting information, a determining unit to assess conditions, a generation unit to create a restriction change request signal, and a restriction release unit to automatically adjust function restrictions based on predefined conditions such as location, time, movement speed, or electronic mail transmission limits.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If an administrator manually sets and releases function restrictions for mobile terminal devices, then security control is improved, but operational convenience deteriorates due to constant administrator intervention being required
Solution Approach 1:
The mobile terminal device automatically determines whether to release function restrictions based on its own location information compared against registered permitted locations, eliminating the need for administrator intervention. The device serves itself by autonomously making the determination and executing the release of restrictions when conditions are met.
Solution Approach 2:
The administrator pre-registers permitted location information (such as home address or company address) in advance. The device then uses this pre-configured information to automatically make release decisions when it detects it is located at one of these registered places, avoiding the need for real-time administrator intervention.
2Ease of operation
If function restrictions are automatically released based on location information, then operational convenience is improved, but device complexity increases due to additional determination and control units
Solution Approach 1:
The determination unit utilizes the existing location information acquisition capability already present in modern mobile terminal devices. By making this existing component serve the additional function of restriction release determination, the patent avoids adding significant complexity while achieving automated operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent combines the restriction release determination function with the existing location information processing functionality of the mobile device. Rather than creating a completely separate control system, it integrates the release logic into the existing location-based operations, thereby minimizing the increase in device complexity.
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AI summary
A mobile terminal device includes: a memory that stores a restriction on a predetermined function or a release condition of the restriction as initial setting information; a determining unit that determines whether a condition of the setting information of the memory is satisfied; a generation unit that generates a restriction change request signal, which changes the initial setting information by a setting information change signal under a condition to change the initial setting information of the memory, and which requests the restriction on a function stored in the memory or the change of the release condition of the restriction when the determining unit determines that the condition of the changed setting information is satisfied; and a restriction release unit which, when detecting the restriction change request signal generated by the generation unit, performs the use restriction on the function or the restriction release based on the changed setting information.