Systems and methods for unlocking a mobile device
AssigneeCitrix Systems, Inc.
InventorsSai Xu, Qin Zhang
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Abstract
Systems and methods for controlling access to a mobile device. A method for unlocking a mobile device includes detecting a user input comprising two or more user actions performed at one or more physical input buttons of the mobile device when the mobile device is in a lock state. The lock state prevents use of at least one functionality of the mobile device. Each user action corresponds to a code. The method also includes determining whether the detected user input is valid, and changing a state of the mobile device from the lock state to an unlock state to enable the use of the at least one functionality of the mobile device if the detected user input is valid.
Claims20
A computing device, comprising:
- a display panel;
- one or more physical interfaces adjacent to the display panel, the one or more physical interfaces being configured to facilitate user inputs for entering a code sequence while the computing device is in a first state, and at least one of the physical interfaces being configured to facilitate user inputs for controlling a corresponding different operation while the computing device is in a second state, the first state and the second state are different states and the corresponding different operation prevented from use while the computing device is in the first state;
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- a processor in communication with the one or more physical interfaces, the processor configured to:
- detect two or more user inputs entered by actuation of the one or more physical interfaces,
- determine validity of the code sequence entered via the detected two or more user inputs based on a stored code sequence, and
- in response to determining the validity of the detected two or more user inputs, enable access to at least one functionality of the computing device.
A method, comprising:
- detecting, by a computing device in a first state, two or more user inputs entered by actuation of one or more physical interfaces adjacent to a display panel of the computing device, each physical interface is configured to control a corresponding different operation of the computing device in a second state, the corresponding different operation of at least one of the physical interfaces being prevented from use while the computing device is in the first state;
- determining, by the computing device, validity of a code sequence entered via the detected two or more user inputs based on a stored code sequence;
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- in response to determining the validity of the detected two or more inputs, enabling, by the computing device, access to at least one functionality of the computing device.
A computing device having at least one functionality with controlled access, the computing device comprising:
- a touch-sensitive user interface;
- one or more physical interfaces being adjacent to and different from the touch-sensitive user interface, the one or more physical interfaces being configured to facilitate user inputs for entering a code sequence while the computing device is in the first state, and control a corresponding different operation while the computing device is in the second state, the first state and the second state are different states and the corresponding different operation prevented from use while the computing device is in the first state;
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- a processor in communication with the one or more physical interfaces and the touch-sensitive user interface, the processor configured to:
- detect two or more user inputs entered by actuation of the one or more physical interfaces,
- determine validity of the code sequence entered via the detected two or more user inputs based on a stored code sequence, and
- in response to determining the validity of the detected two or more user inputs, enable access to at least one functionality of the computing device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.