Duplicate mobile device PIN detection and elimination
AssigneeResearch In Motion Limited
InventorTabitha K. Ferguson
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Abstract
A method and system for detecting and eliminating duplicate wireless mobile communications device Personal Identification Numbers (PINs) stored in user administration records associated with a server system is disclosed. The PIN of a wireless mobile communications device stored in a user administration record is checked against other existing user administration records, and if a duplicate of the PIN is detected, the PIN in one of the user administration records is reset. Duplicate PIN detection and elimination operations are preferably performed each time a new user administration record is created but may possibly be performed in response to selection of a particular user account, PIN or user administration record.
Claims19
A method for detecting and eliminating duplicate wireless mobile communications device Personal Identification Numbers (PINs) stored in user administration records associated with a server system, the method comprising the steps of:
- checking the PIN of a wireless mobile communications device stored in a user administration record against other existing user administration records;
- and
- if a duplicate of the PIN is detected in one of the other existing user administration records, then resetting the PIN in either the user administration record or the one of the other existing user administration records.
A system for detecting and eliminating duplicate wireless mobile communications device Personal Identification Numbers (PINs) in a communication system, comprising:
- a data store configured to store user administration records, each user administration record being adapted to include a PIN;
- and
- a server system configured to detect whether or not a PIN stored in a user administration record in the data store occurs in any other user administration record in the data store, and if so, to reset the PIN in either the user administration record or the other user administration record.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.