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US 9,542,547 B2Granted
Identification to access portable computing device
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsShinoj Bhaskaran, Ruby Tomar, Puneet Kumar Arora
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Abstract
A portable computing device receives an identity card and restricts access to the portable computing device if the identity card is unassociated with the portable computing device. If access to the portable computing device is restricted, the portable computing device receives identification from a second portable computing device and grants access to the portable computing device if the identification is successfully authenticated.
Claims23
A first portable computing device comprising:
- a card module to physically receive an identity card for the first portable computing device;
- a controller to restrict access to the first portable computing device if the identity card physically received in the card module is unassociated with the first portable computing device;
- and
- a communication component to wirelessly communicate with a second portable computing device that is within a predefined proximity of the first portable computing device;
- wherein the controller is to:
- in response to determining that access to the first portable computing device is restricted as a result of the physically received identity card being unassociated with the first portable computing device, determine whether the communication component has wirelessly received an identification of the second portable computing device from the second portable computing device that is within the predefined proximity;
- authenticate the received identification by comparing the received identification with a stored identification of the second portable computing device stored in the first portable computing device;
- and
- grant access to the first portable computing device in response to the received identification being successfully authenticated based on the comparing.
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A method comprising:
- associating a first portable computing device with a second portable computing device by storing an identification of the second portable computing device in the first portable computing device;
- restricting access to the first portable computing device if an unassociated identity card is physically received in a card module of the first portable computing device;
- wirelessly receiving, by the first portable computer device, an identification of the second portable computing device from the second portable computing device within a predefined proximity of the first portable computing device, in response to access to the first portable computing device being restricted as a result of the unassociated identity card being physically received in the card module of the first portable computing device;
- authenticating the received identification by comparing, by the first portable computing device, the received identification to the stored identification;
- and
- granting access to the first portable computing device in response to the received identification of the second portable computing device being successfully authenticated based on the comparing.
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A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions that if executed cause a controller of a first portable computing device to:
- store an identification of a second portable computing device in the first portable computing device;
- restrict access to the first portable computing device if an unassociated identity card is physically received in a card module of the first portable computing device;
- in response to access to the first portable computing device being restricted as a result of the unassociated identity card being physically received in the card module of the first portable computing device, detect for the second portable computing device within a predefined proximity of the first portable computing device to wirelessly receive an identification of the second portable computing device from the second portable computing device;
- authenticate the received identification by comparing the received identification to the stored identification;
- and
- grant access to the first portable computing device in response to the received identification of the second portable computing device being successfully authenticated based on the comparing.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.