MUMBAI, India, May 29 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641063619 A) filed by Vignan's Institute Of Information Technology, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, on May 20, for 'distraquit: a digital well-being and doom scrolling on-device solution.'
Inventor(s) include Mani G; E Sai Kiran; V. Kavya Sri; P. K. Manash Kumar; and B. Rahul Sai.
The application for the patent was published on May 29, under issue no. 22/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The proposed invention, DistraQuit, is an Android-based digital wellbeing application designed to reduce excessive smartphone usage through real-time, on-device monitoring and intervention. The system analyzes application usage duration and scrolling behaviour to detect prolonged or repetitive usage patterns indicative of doomscrolling. DistraQuit allows users to configure daily usage limits, focus sessions, and temporary app restrictions. When predefined thresholds are exceeded, the system provides timely alerts or enforces access limitations to encourage mindful usage. The application operates entirely on the user's device, ensuring privacy, minimal resource usage, and independence from cloud services. The invention "DistraQuit: An On-Device Digital Wellbeing and Doomscrolling Reduction System" presents a behaviour-aware approach to managing smartphone usage. The application runs as a background service on Android devices and utilizes system-level APIs to observe user interaction patterns. The system continuously tracks the time spent on applications and monitors scrolling activity through accessibility-based event detection. Using rule-based logic and configurable thresholds, the system identifies sessions that exceed healthy usage limits. Upon detection, DistraQuit triggers appropriate interventions such as warnings, cooldown prompts, or temporary application blocking. All processing and data storage occur locally on the device. The system does not transmit user data externally, ensuring data privacy and reducing dependency on network connectivity."
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