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US 8,943,609 B2Granted
Apparatus and method for configuring password and for releasing lock
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorYong-Sang Yun
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Abstract
Methods of configuring a different authority for a plurality of users to use at least one application in an electronic device. User inputs are received to set passwords for respective user levels, where each user level is associated with a different authority to access applications. The passwords are registered for the respective user levels. At least one application is associated with one of the user levels.
Claims15
A method of setting passwords and releasing a lock in an electronic device, the method comprising:
- registering grid pattern type passwords for different levels of access authority by requiring a password of a particular level of authority to cross more grid points than passwords at all levels of authority lower than the particular level;
- receiving an input password for releasing the lock;
- comparing the input password with a plurality of passwords each associated with a respective access authority for at least one application;
- and
- releasing the lock when the input password matches any one of the passwords and operating the electronic device at an authority that matches the input password;
- wherein when the lock is released with a password having a restricted authority for the at least one application, at least one operation of the electronic device associated with the at least one application is disabled.
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An apparatus for setting passwords and releasing a lock in a device, comprising:
- an input unit;
- a memory storing passwords each associated with a respective access authority for at least one application;
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- a controller configured to register grid pattern type passwords for different levels of access authority by requiring a password of a particular level of authority to cross more grid points than passwords at all levels of authority lower than the particular level, and to receive an input password for releasing the lock through the input unit, compare the input password with the passwords stored in the memory, release the lock when the input password matches any one of the stored passwords and operate the device at an authority that matches the input password;
- wherein when the lock is released with a password having a restricted authority for the at least one application, at least one operation of the electronic device associated with the at least one application is disabled.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.