Method and Apparatus for Providing a Regional Theft Guard
AssigneeNokia Corporation
InventorJanne Mika Uusilehto
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Abstract
A method for providing a regional theft guard may include comparing, at a mobile electronic device, current device location to a set of enabled regions defined for the mobile electronic device, enabling operation of the mobile electronic device in response to a determination that the mobile electronic device is within an enabled region, and requesting entry of a security code in response to a determination that the mobile electronic device is not within the enabled region. A corresponding apparatus and computer program product are also provided.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- comparing, at a mobile electronic device, current device location to a set of enabled regions defined for the mobile electronic device;
- enabling operation of the mobile electronic device in response to a determination that the mobile electronic device is within an enabled region;
- and
- requesting entry of a security code in response to a determination that the mobile electronic device is not within the enabled region.
An apparatus comprising at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to:
- compare, at a mobile electronic device, current device location to a set of enabled regions defined for the mobile electronic device;
- enable operation of the mobile electronic device in response to a determination that the mobile electronic device is within an enabled region;
- and
- request entry of a security code in response to a determination that the mobile electronic device is not within the enabled region.
A computer program product comprising at least one computer-readable storage medium having computer-executable program code instructions stored therein, the computer-executable program code instructions including program code instructions to:
- compare, at a mobile electronic device, current device location to a set of enabled regions defined for the mobile electronic device;
- enable operation of the mobile electronic device in response to a determination that the mobile electronic device is within an enabled region;
- and
- request entry of a security code in response to a determination that the mobile electronic device is not within the enabled region.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.