Mobile computing device and wearable computing device having automatic access mode control
AssigneeGoogle Inc.
InventorDaniel Aminzade
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Abstract
A system can include a mobile computing device and a wearable computing device. The wearable computing device can include a sensor that outputs an indication that the wearable computing device is not being worn. Responsive to receiving the indication that the wearable computing device is being not being worn, one or both of the devices can be operable to change an access mode of computing environment provided by the respective device from an increased access mode to a reduced access mode.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- receiving, by a processor of a wearable computing device, an indication that the wearable computing device is being worn by a user;
- and
- responsive to at least the indication that the wearable computing device is being worn and an indication that a distance between the wearable computing device and a mobile computing device is less than the threshold distance, transmitting, by the wearable computing device, to the mobile computing device, a signal configured to cause the mobile computing device to change an access mode of a computing environment of the mobile computing device from a reduced access security mode to an increased access security mode in which the user is permitted access to a larger set of functionality provided by the mobile computing device than when in the reduced access security mode.
A system comprising:
- a mobile computing device comprising one or more mobile computing device processors;
- a wearable computing device comprising one or more wearable computing device processors and a sensor, wherein the sensor is configured to generate an indication that the wearable computing device is being worn by a user;
- and
- a mobile computing device access mode module operable by the one or more mobile computing device processors to receive the indication that the wearable computing device is being worn by the user and change, based at least in part on the indication that the wearable computing device is being worn by the user and an indication that a distance between the wearable computing device and the mobile computing device is less than a threshold distance, an access mode of a computing environment of the mobile computing device from a reduced access security mode to an increased access security mode in which the user is permitted access to a larger set of functionality provided by the mobile computing device than when in the reduced access security mode
A computer-readable storage device storing instructions that, when executed, cause at least one processor of a mobile computing device to:
- receive, from a wearable computing device, an indication that the wearable computing device is being worn by a user;
- determine that a distance between the wearable computing device and the mobile computing device is less than a threshold distance;
- and
- change, based at least in part on the indication that the wearable computing device is being worn by the user and the determination that the distance between the wearable computing device and the mobile computing device is less than the threshold distance, an access mode of the computing environment of the mobile computing device from a reduced access security mode to an increased access security mode in which the user is permitted access to a larger set of functionality provided by the mobile computing device than when in the reduced access security mode.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.