Selective Wireless Service Restriction by Location
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing methods for preventing unauthorized use of wireless devices, such as jamming or signal blocking, do not provide selective control over wireless communications services, which is necessary in sensitive locations like police facilities or prisons to ensure safety.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a system that determines the permissibility of wireless communications services based on the location of the device and specific permissions or restrictions, allowing selective blocking, modification, or enabling of services using lists of allowed and restricted services within geographic regions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If jamming or signal blocking techniques are used to prevent unauthorized use of wireless devices, then safety and security are improved, but selectivity and control over wireless communications services are lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments wireless services into individual controllable units by creating separate service lists (allowed services list and restricted services list) that can be independently configured. Each wireless service (voice, data, messaging, etc.) can be individually permitted or restricted based on location, enabling fine-grained selective control rather than blanket blocking of all wireless communications.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically adjusts service permissions based on geographic location. As a wireless device moves between different geographic regions, the system automatically updates which services are allowed or restricted by comparing the device's current location against stored location data and associated service lists, providing adaptive control that changes in real-time.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If blanket signal blocking is implemented in sensitive locations, then unauthorized communications are prevented, but legitimate authorized communications are also blocked
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies different service permission qualities to different geographic locations. Each geographic region can have its own customized allowed services list and restricted services list, enabling tailored control policies that match the specific security requirements of each location while permitting legitimate communications that are authorized for that particular area.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses feedback mechanisms to determine whether a wireless device is authorized to use services in a given location. By continuously monitoring the device's location and comparing it against stored location-service permission data, the system provides real-time feedback control that allows legitimate communications while blocking unauthorized ones.
Data Source
AI summary
Wireless communications services on a wireless communications device are selectively restricted in accordance with a location of the wireless device and specific permission and/or restrictions assigned to the wireless device while within/at the location. Services can be selectively blocked (denied), selectively modified, or selectively allowed on a wireless device based on lists indicating permissibility for specific services for specific devices at/within specific locations. A location can be a zone of coverage of a cellular tower, micro/pico/Femto cell or wireless access point, a sector of a zone of coverage, a geographic region within a zone of coverage, or any appropriate combination thereof.