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US 12,659,401 B2Granted
Disablement and recovery for lost or stolen user device
AssigneeQUALCOMM Incorporated
InventorsJose Alfredo Ruvalcaba, Asaf Shen, Gabriel Moura da Silva, Tom Chin
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Abstract
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user device may retrieve, from a server, an indication of a current device state of the user device. The user device may disable communication capabilities of the user device in connection with a determination that the current device state is a first device state of a plurality of device states. Numerous other aspects are described.
Claims28
A user device for wireless communication, comprising:
- one or more memories;
- and
- one or more processors, coupled to the one or more memories, configured to cause the user device to:
- retrieve, from a server, an indication of a current device state of the user device based at least in part on detection of a trigger event, wherein the trigger event is associated with at least one of a key press or a screen swipe after the user device is idle for a time duration that satisfies a threshold;
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- disable, activation of communication capabilities of the user device by one or more applications executing on the user device, in connection with a determination by the user device that the current device state is a first device state of a plurality of device states, wherein the disabling prevents use of the one or more applications to activate the communication capabilities, wherein the plurality of device states comprise the first device state and a second device state, and wherein the second device state is selected by a user of the user device, indicates that data stored on the user device is to be erased, and indicates that the communication capabilities are to be disabled.
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A method of wireless communication performed by a user device, comprising:
- retrieving, from a server, an indication of a current device state of the user device based at least in part on detection of a trigger event, wherein the trigger event is associated with at least one of a key press or a screen swipe after the user device is idle for a time duration that satisfies a threshold;
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- disabling, activation of communication capabilities of the user device by one or more applications executing on the user device, in connection with a determination by the user device that the current device state is a first device state of a plurality of device states, wherein the disabling prevents use of the one or more applications to activate the communication capabilities, wherein the plurality of device states comprise the first device state and a second device state, and wherein the second device state is selected by a user of the user device, indicates that data stored on the user device is to be erased, and indicates that the communication capabilities of the user device are to be disabled.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a set of instructions for wireless communication, the set of instructions comprising:
- one or more instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a user device, cause the user device to:
- retrieve, from a server, an indication of a current device state of the user device based at least in part on detection of a trigger event, wherein the trigger event is associated with at least one of a key press or a screen swipe after the user device is idle for a time duration that satisfies a threshold;
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- disable, activation of communication capabilities of the user device by one or more applications executing on the user device, in connection with a determination by the user device that the current device state is a first device state of a plurality of device states, wherein the disabling prevents use of the one or more applications to activate the communication capabilities, wherein the plurality of device states comprise the first device state and a second device state, and wherein the second device state is selected by a user of the user device, indicates that data stored on the user device is to be erased, and indicates that the communication capabilities are to be disabled.
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An apparatus for wireless communication, comprising:
- means for retrieving, from a server, an indication of a current device state based at least in part on detection of a trigger event, wherein the trigger event is associated with at least one of a key press or a screen swipe after the user device is idle for a time duration that satisfies a threshold;
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- means for disabling, activation of communication capabilities by one or more applications executing on the apparatus, in connection with a determination by the apparatus that the current device state is a first device state of a plurality of device states, wherein the disabling prevents use of the one or more applications to activate the communication capabilities, wherein the plurality of device states comprise the first device state and a second device state, and wherein the second device state is selected by a user of the apparatus, indicates that data stored on the apparatus is to be erased, and indicates that the communication capabilities are to be disabled.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.