Handheld device and method for unlocking the handheld device
AssigneeHon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
InventorsShu-Cheng Lin, Chun-Wei Kuo
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Abstract
A method for unlocking a handheld device with a touch screen includes accessing a social network using login information, acquiring information of a plurality of friends from the social network. The method further includes creating an unlocking interface on the touch screen according to a second amount of a secondary key based on the plurality of friends and a question based on the first amount of a primary key based on the plurality of friends. An input event of a user on the unlocking interface is detected the handheld device is transitioned from a lock state to an unlock state upon the condition that the input event corresponds to a correct answer.
Claims16
A method for unlocking a handheld device with a touch screen, comprising:
- storing login information of a social network in a storage system of the handheld device;
- accessing the social network by the login information stored in the storage system;
- acquiring information of a plurality of friends from the social network to store in the storage system, wherein information of one of the plurality of friends comprises a primary key and a secondary key;
- selecting a first amount of the primary key and a second amount of the secondary key from the storage system;
- creating an unlocking interface on the touch screen according to the second amount of the secondary key and a question based on the first amount of the primary key;
- detecting an input event of a user on the unlocking interface;
- determining whether the input event corresponds to an answer linked with the question;
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- transitioning the handheld device from a lock state to an unlock state upon the condition that the input event corresponds to the answer.
A handheld device, comprising:
- at least one processor;
- a touch screen displaying an unlocking interface;
- a storage system storing login information of a social network and one or more programs that are executed by the at least one processor, the one or more programs comprising:
- an acquiring module, accessing the social network by the login information stored in the storage system and acquiring information of a plurality of friends in the social network, wherein information of one of the plurality of friends comprises a primary key and a secondary key;
- an unlocking interface creating module, selecting a first amount of the primary key and a second amount of the secondary key from the storage system and creating the unlocking interface on the touch screen according to the second amount of the secondary key and a question based on the first amount of the primary key;
- a detecting module, detecting an input event of a user on the unlocking interface;
- a determining module, determining whether the input event corresponds to an answer linked with the question;
- a transitioning module, transitioning the handheld device from a lock state to an unlock state upon the condition that the input event corresponds to the answer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.