Secure communications smartphone system
AssigneeOto Technologies, LLC
InventorJohn Cronin
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Abstract
Methods, systems, and non-transitory data storage media are provided for secured communications where biometrics are used to secure communications sent over a data communication path. A sender of a secured communication may identify one or more biometrics required from a recipient before the recipient is allowed to interpret, read, view, or listen to the communication. Communications secured by the present invention may include email, text messages, iMessages, files, links, Universal Resource Locators (URLs), videos, photos, attachments, or other forms of electronic data or media communications.
Claims21
-17. (canceled)
An apparatus for securing a communication, the apparatus comprising:
- a memory;
- a processor executing instructions stored in the memory and that prepares the communication;
- a network communication interface;
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- a display that displays a user interface including a plurality of settings, one or more of which is a user selectable biometric setting that identifies one or more biometric inputs required to be input by a recipient before at least a portion of the communication can be opened by the recipient.
A method for securing a communication, the method comprising:
- receiving the communication composed by a user of an a user electronic device, wherein the message is composed over a user input at the user electronic device;
- displaying a plurality of settings on a user interface, wherein one or more of the plurality of settings is a user selectable biometric setting;
- receiving a selection over the user interface of one or more biometric inputs, wherein the one or more biometric inputs lock at least a portion of the communication, and the one or more biometric inputs are required to be input by a recipient of the communication before the at least portion of the communication can be opened by the recipient at a recipient electronic device;
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- transmitting the communication over a network communication interface at the user electronic device, wherein the receiver cannot access the at least portion of the communication until after the receiver enters the one or more biometric inputs over one or more sensors at the receiver electronic device.
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having embodied thereon a program executable by a processor to perform a method for securing a communication, the method comprising:
- receiving the communication composed by a user of an a user electronic device, wherein the message is composed over a user input at the user electronic device;
- displaying a plurality of settings on a user interface, wherein one or more of the plurality of settings is a user selectable biometric setting;
- receiving a selection over the user interface of one or more biometric inputs, wherein the one or more biometric inputs lock at least a portion of the communication, and the one or more biometric inputs are required to be input by a recipient of the communication before the at least portion of the communication can be opened by the recipient at a recipient electronic device;
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- transmitting the communication over a network communication interface at the user electronic device, wherein the receiver cannot access the at least portion of the communication until after the receiver enters the one or more biometric inputs over one or more sensors at the receiver electronic device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.