US 11,720,155 B2
System and method of regulating usage of an electronic device
Kito Bradford, Rockville, MD (US)
Filed by Kito Bradford, Rockville, MD (US)
Filed on Nov. 17, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/686,161.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/768,680, filed on Nov. 16, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2020/0159298 A1, May 21, 2020
Int. Cl. G06F 1/26 (2006.01); E05B 73/00 (2006.01); H04B 3/02 (2006.01); H01R 13/639 (2006.01); H04L 67/306 (2022.01); E05B 47/00 (2006.01); G06F 21/81 (2013.01); H04N 21/45 (2011.01); H04N 21/475 (2011.01)
CPC G06F 1/26 (2013.01) [E05B 73/0082 (2013.01); H01R 13/6397 (2013.01); H04B 3/02 (2013.01); H04L 67/306 (2013.01); E05B 47/0002 (2013.01); G06F 21/81 (2013.01); H04N 21/4532 (2013.01); H04N 21/4751 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of regulating usage of an electronic device, the method comprising the steps of:
(A) providing a user account and an administrator account managed by a remote server, wherein the user account is associated with a corresponding user personal computing (PC) device, and wherein the administrator account is associated with a corresponding administrator PC device;
(B) providing an electronic device, wherein the electronic device is associated to the user account and the administrator account;
(C) providing a computerized regulating adapter, wherein the computerized regulating adapter is configured to readily process data using a processing device and a storage device, and wherein the electronic device is electrically coupled to the computerized regulating adapter, and wherein a usage schedule of the electronic device is stored on the remote server, and wherein the usage schedule includes a plurality of available date-and times and a plurality of blocked date-and-times, and wherein the remote server, the electronic device, and the computerized regulating adapter are configured to readily exchange data amongst each other through a communication network, and wherein the computerized regulating adapter is configured to access the communication network with a communication interface;
(D) monitoring a current date-and-time with the computerized regulating adapter;
(E) physically securing an electrical plug of the electronic device to the computerized regulating adapter with a locking mechanism of the computerized regulating adapter;
(F) electrically powering the electronic device with the computerized regulating adapter, if the computerized regulating adapter matches the current date-and-time to an arbitrary available date-and-time by accessing the plurality of available date-and-times stored on the remote server through the communication network, wherein the arbitrary available date-and time is any date-and-time from the plurality of available date-and-times; and,
(G) disabling the electronic device with the computerized regulating adapter, if the computerized regulating adapter matches the current date-and-time to an arbitrary blocked date-and-time by accessing the plurality of blocked date-and-times stored on the remote server through the communication network, wherein the arbitrary blocked date-and time is any date-and-time from the plurality of blocked date-and-times.