Mobile device authentication through touch-based gestures
OwnerDavid H. Chininventor
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Abstract
A method, system, and apparatus of a touch-based authentication of a mobile device through user generated pattern creation are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of a mobile device includes recognizing a tactile force on a touch screen without a visual aid as an unlocking gesture, storing the unlocking gesture to a memory of the mobile device, associating another tactile force on the touch screen with the unlocking gesture, and transforming the mobile device from an initial state to an unlocked state based on the association between the another tactile force and the unlocking gesture. The method may include transforming the mobile device to operate as a telephonic communication device in the unlocked state.
Claims20
A method of a mobile device comprising:
- entering an applied tactile force comprising touches on a touch screen of the mobile device, wherein the applied tactile force has a shape;
- determining whether the shape of the applied tactile force matches within a tolerance the shape of a user-defined gesture, wherein determining does not comprise detecting whether the touches are on predetermined contact areas on the touch screen in a given order;
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- transforming the mobile device from a first state to a second state if the shape of the applied tactile force matches within a tolerance the shape of the user-defined gesture.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium with an executable program stored thereon, wherein the executable program instructs a processor to perform the method:
- accepting an applied tactile force comprising touches on a touch screen of the mobile device, wherein the applied tactile force has a shape;
- determining whether the shape of the applied tactile force matches within a tolerance the shape of a user-defined gesture, wherein determining does not comprise detecting whether the touches are on predetermined contact areas on the touch screen in a given order;
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- transforming the mobile device from a first state to a second state if the shape of the applied tactile force matches within a tolerance the shape of the user-defined gesture.
A mobile device, comprising:
- a touch screen;
- a processor that recognizes an applied tactile force comprising touches on the touch screen, wherein the applied tactile force has a shape;
- a security module interfaced with the processor, wherein the security module makes a determination of whether the shape of the applied tactile force matches within a tolerance the shape of a user-defined gesture and allows access to a set of features on the mobile device if the shape of the applied tactile force matches within a tolerance the shape of the user-defined gesture, wherein the determination does not comprise detecting whether the touches are on predetermined contact areas on the touch screen in a given order.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.