Contextual device locking/unlocking
AssigneeFacebook, Inc.
InventorJonathan Arie Matus
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Abstract
Particular embodiments disclose a first device associated with a user that may receive an indication that a second device of a second user of the online system is located within a proximity distance from the first device. The first device may store social-networking information associated with the first user comprising a social-networking connection between the first user and the second user. The first device may access the social-networking information and determine that the second device is a trusted device based on the social-networking connection between the first user and the second user. The first device may determine instructions to update a lock status of the first device based on the determination that the second device is a trusted device.
Claims20
One or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media of a first device associated with a first user of an online system, the media embodying software that is operable when executed to:
- receive an indication that a second device of a second user of the online system is located within a proximity distance from the first device;
- locally store social-networking information associated with the first user, wherein the social-networking information comprises a social-networking connection between the first user and the second user;
- access the locally-stored social-networking information, wherein the locally-stored social-networking information was received from an online system;
- determine that the second device is a trusted device based on the social-networking connection between the first user and the second user;
- and
- determine instructions to update a lock status of the first device based on the determination that the second device is a trusted device.
A system comprising:
- one or more processors;
- and
- one or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media coupled to one or more of the processors and comprising instructions operable when executed by one or more of the processors to cause the system to:
- receive an indication that a second device of a second user of the online system is located within a proximity distance from a first device;
- store social-networking information associated with the first user, wherein the social-networking information comprises a social-networking connection between the first user and the second user;
- access the locally-stored social-networking information, wherein the social-networking information was received from an online system;
- determine that the second device is a trusted device based on the social-networking connection between the first user and the second user;
- and
- determine instructions to update a lock status of the first device based on the determination that the second device is a trusted device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.