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US 8,428,571 B2Granted
Uninterrupted usage and access of physically unreachable handheld device
AssigneeNovell, Inc.
InventorsAbirami Rajendran, Nikita Davda
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Abstract
Techniques for uninterrupted usage and access to physically unreachable handheld devices are provided. A physically unreachable handheld device includes an automated agent that is configured to authenticate a message received without manual intervention and to forward information from the handheld device to another remote and different handheld device.
Claims7
A computer-implemented method that is adapted to executed by a processor on a portable device to perform the method, comprising:
- receiving, at a portable device, a message from a remote portable device;
- inspecting, at the portable device, the message and detecting an email address in the body of the message;
- validating, at the portable device, the email address is associated with an owner registered to the portable device;
- sending, from the portable device, a code to the email address;
- acquiring, at the portable device, a second message having the code;
- and
- configuring the portable handheld device to forward subsequent incoming messages or voice calls to the remote portable device.
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