Method and system for providing a security component to a mobile communications device in an application
AssigneeLookout, Inc.
InventorsMarc William Rogers, Brian James Buck
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Abstract
A security code module is provided that a developer may include in an application. The application, when downloaded onto a mobile communications device, includes the security code module. The security code module then initiates a request to a server to determine the status of the mobile communications device. When the status indicates that the mobile communications device is not in the possession of the registered owner, a security component on the server performs an action in response.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- receiving, over a network by a security component executing on a first server, a request from a mobile communications device to determine a status of the mobile communications device, wherein:
- access to a security code module stored on the first server or a second server was provided over the network,
- the security code module is included in an application program on the mobile communications device, and
- the security code module executing on the mobile communications device initiated the generation of the request;
- accessing, by the security component, a registry containing the status of the mobile communications device;
- determining, by the security component based on the access of the registry that the status of the mobile communications device indicates the mobile communications device is not in the possession of the registered owner and
- performing, by the security component, at least one action based on the determination that the mobile communications device is registered as not being in the possession of the registered owner.
A system comprising at least one networked server executing instructions that perform the steps of a method comprising:
- receiving, by a security component, a request from a mobile communications device to determine a status of the mobile communications device, wherein:
- access to a security code module was provided over the network,
- the security code module is included in an application program on the mobile communications device, and
- the security code module executing on the mobile communications device initiated the generation of the request;
- accessing, by the security component, a registry containing the status of the mobile communications device;
- determining, by the security component based on the access of the registry that the status of the mobile communications device indicates the mobile communications device is not in the possession of the registered owner and
- performing, by the security component, at least one action based on the determination that the mobile communications device is registered as not being in the possession of the registered owner.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium encoded with a plurality of instructions which, when executed by at least one processor of at least one networked server, cause the at least one processor to perform a method comprising:
- receiving, by a security component, a request from a mobile communications device to determine a status of the mobile communications device, wherein:
- access to a security code module was provided over the network,
- the security code module is included in an application program on the mobile communications device, and
- the security code module executing on the mobile communications device initiated the generation of the request;
- accessing, by the security component, a registry containing the status of the mobile communications device;
- determining, by the security component based on the access of the registry that the status of the mobile communications device indicates the mobile communications device is not in the possession of the registered owner and
- performing, by the security component, at least one action based on the determination that the mobile communications device is registered as not being in the possession of the registered owner.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.