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US 11,693,974 B2Granted
Trust agents
AssigneeGoogle Inc.
InventorsJames Brooks Miller, Michael Andrew Cleron
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Abstract
Systems and techniques are provided for trust agents. Trust agents may be enabled. A state determination may be received from each of the enabled trust agents. The state determination may indicate either a trusted state or an untrusted state. The received state determinations may be combined to determine a security state. A security measure may be enabled or disabled based on the determined security state.
Claims20
A computing device comprising:
- at least one processor;
- a memory storing program instructions, which when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to:
- receive a state determination from each of at least one trust agent, wherein the state determination received from each trust agent indicates either a trusted state or an untrusted state;
- based on the received state determination from each trust agent, determine a security state for the computing device;
- and
- when the determined security state for the computing device is the untrusted state, cause the computing device to enter a locked state, wherein the locked state requires user authentication before the computing device is allowed to enter an unlocked state.
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A method comprising:
- receiving a state determination from each of at least one trust agent, wherein the state determination received from each trust agent indicates either a trusted state or an untrusted state;
- based on the received state determination from each trust agent, determining a security state for a computing device;
- and
- when the determined security state for the computing device is the untrusted state, causing the computing device to enter a locked state, wherein the locked state requires user authentication before the computing device is allowed to enter an unlocked state.
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A non-transitory computer readable medium storing program instructions executable by at least one processor to cause performance of operations comprising:
- receiving a state determination from each of at least one trust agent, wherein the state determination received from each trust agent indicates either a trusted state or an untrusted state;
- based on the received state determination from each trust agent, determining a security state for a computing device;
- and
- when the determined security state for the computing device is the untrusted state, causing the computing device to enter a locked state, wherein the locked state requires user authentication before the computing device is allowed to enter an unlocked state.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.