Apparatus and method for protecting privacy in terminal
AssigneePantech Co., Ltd.
InventorsChang Dae LEE, Kyung Hoon Kim
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Abstract
Provided is an apparatus and method for protecting privacy in a terminal that may verify or determine whether a lock screen unlock input corresponds to an unlock input to enter a secret mode or an unlock input to enter a standard mode in response to sensing the lock screen unlock input, set a secret database (DB) to be inaccessible in response to a verification or determination that the lock screen unlock input corresponds to an unlock input to enter the standard mode, and set the secret DB to be accessible in response to a verification or determination that the lock screen unlock input corresponds to an unlock input to enter the secret mode.
Claims20
A method for providing a secret mode of a mobile terminal, the method comprising:
- determining whether an input corresponds to an input to enter a secret mode;
- and
- controlling, by a controller of the mobile terminal, a secret item to be output in the secret mode, the secret item being restricted in a non-secret mode.
A mobile terminal to provide a secret mode, the mobile terminal comprising:
- a processor to determine whether an input corresponds to an input to enter a secret mode, and control a secret item to be output in the secret mode, the secret item being restricted in a non-secret mode.
A mobile terminal to provide a secret mode, the mobile terminal comprising:
- an interface to receive an input to select an item;
- a display to display a plurality of items;
- a processor to determine a selected item as a secret item, to obtain a right from an application associated with the secret item, and to retrieve information associated with the secret item from the application in a secret mode,
- wherein the processor, in a non-secret mode, executes the application and modifies a display screen of the executed application to restrict the information associated with the secret item.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.