Microsoft Patents Tech That Would Silence Your Phone For You

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Microsoft has filed a patent for a mobile technology called Inconspicuous Mode, aimed at helping you not be 'that guy' who disrupts movies, meals, or meetings with noisy, bright-screened phone alerts. It's a setting that would effectively put your phone in stealth mode (http://www.infoworld.com/d/mobile-technology/microsoft-patents-tech-would-silence-your-phone-you-210769) when the device sensed it was in a movie theater (thanks to location information) and that the lights had gone down. The idea is, you could still receive alerts if a call or text came in, but no one around you would be disturb by phone sounds or screen flashes.

http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/13/01/14/1919214/microsoft-patents-tech-that-would-silence-your-phone-for-you