Integrated full and partial shutdown application programming interface

• US 10,021,565 B2
• Filed: 10/30/2015
• Issued: 07/10/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Bank of America Corp.
• Original Assignee: Bank of America Corp.
• Inventors: Jones-McFadden, Alicia C., Votaw, Elizabeth S.
• Primary Examiner(s): Gelagay, Shewaye
• Assistant Examiner(s): Johnson, Carlton
• Application Number:
  US14/928,498
• Publication Number:
  US 20170127275A1
• Time in Patent Office: 984 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/62 Uninstallation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/083 using passwords cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication using a predetermined code H04L9/3226
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 Authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/33 using wearable devices, e.g. using a smartwatch or smart-glasses
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/37 Managing security policies for mobile devices or for controlling mobile applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds

Abstract

The present disclosure describes an integrated full and partial shutdown application programming interface. Embodiments herein disclosed include receiving an indication that a mobile device of a user is compromised. Further embodiments identify one or more applications associated with the mobile device and remotely access the mobile device to perform a switch-off of the one or more applications. The switch-off may include logging the user out of the one or more applications before removing the one or more applications from the mobile device.

Claims

1. A system for integrated full and partial shutdown application programming interface, the system comprising:

a computer apparatus comprising at least one processor and a memory; and

a software module, stored in the memory, comprising computer readable code, executable by the processor, and configured to;

monitor a position of a mobile device associated with a user;

monitor a position of a wearable device associated with the user;

determine that the mobile device is compromised by determining that the mobile device and the wearable device associated with the user are not co-located, based on the position of the mobile device and the position of the wearable device associated with the user;

perform a switch-off for the mobile device associated with the user in response to determining that the mobile device and the wearable device associated with the user are not co-located, wherein performing the switch-off for the mobile device comprises;

remotely accessing the mobile device;

identifying one or more applications associated with the mobile device;

identifying unopened applications of the one or more applications associated with the mobile device;

causing the mobile device to open or load the unopened applications;

logging the user out of the one or more applications, wherein logging the user out of the one or more applications comprises;

identifying a first application of the one or more applications with multiple authentication levels;

determining that the user is currently logged in to a first authentication level of the multiple authentication levels; and

logging the user out of the first authentication level for the first application, but not logging the user out of a second authentication level of the first application, where the first authentication level requires more complex user authentication credentials than the second authentication level;

confirming that the user is logged out of the one or more applications; and

in response to confirming that the user is logged out of the one or more applications, uninstalling or reconfiguring the one or more applications from the mobile device, wherein uninstalling comprises removing all or part of the one or more applications from the mobile device, and wherein reconfiguring comprises disabling access to the one or more applications;

determine through monitoring of the mobile device and the wearable device of the user that the mobile device and the wearable device associated with the user are co-located, based on the position of the mobile device and the position of the wearable device associated with the user;

in response to determining that the mobile device and the wearable device are co-located, receive a request to restore the mobile device to an original state, wherein the original state is a state prior to the switch-off, wherein restoring comprises reinstalling the all or part of the one or more applications that were removed from the mobile device and reconfiguring the one or more applications to their original configurations to allow the user to gain access to the one or more applications;

in response to receiving the request to restore the mobile device to the original state, prompt the user to input authentication credentials required for access to each of the one or more applications;

receive, from the user, the required authentication credentials;

validate the authentication credentials;

in response to validating the authentication credentials, install or reconfigure the one or more applications; and

in response to validating the authentication credentials, log the user into each of the one or more applications, including logging the user into the first authentication level for the first application.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the authentication credentials comprise one or more of a username, a password, a passcode, a personal identification number (PIN), security questions, biometric indicia, device info associated with the mobile device, and financial account information of the user.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the software module is further configured to notify the user of the switch-off by transmitting an electronic notification to a different computing device of the user.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the second authentication level requires only a password for authentication.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the first authentication level requires a security question, biometric information of the user, or a two-step verification process.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the software module is further configured to log a current user of the mobile device out of one or more of the one or more applications.

7. A computer-implemented method for integrated full and partial shutdown application programming interface, the computer-implemented method comprising:

monitoring a position of a mobile device associated with a user;

monitoring a position of a wearable device associated with the user;

determining that the mobile device is compromised by determining that the mobile device and the wearable device associated with the user are not co-located, based on the position of the mobile device and the position of the wearable device associated with the user;

performing a switch-off for the mobile device associated with the user in response to determining that the mobile device and the wearable device associated with the user are not co-located, wherein performing the switch-off for the mobile device comprises;

remotely accessing the mobile device;

identifying one or more applications associated with the mobile device;

identifying unopened applications of the one or more applications associated with the mobile device;

causing the mobile device to open or load the unopened applications;

logging the user out of the one or more applications, wherein logging the user out of the one or more applications comprises;

identifying a first application of the one or more applications with multiple authentication levels;

determining that the user is currently logged in to a first authentication level of the multiple authentication levels; and

logging the user out of the first authentication level for the first application, but not logging the user out of a second authentication level of the first application, where the first authentication level requires more complex user authentication credentials than the second authentication level;

confirming that the user is logged out of the one or more applications; and

in response to confirming that the user is logged out of the one or more applications, uninstalling or reconfiguring the one or more applications from the mobile device, wherein uninstalling comprises removing all or part of the one or more applications from the mobile device, and wherein reconfiguring comprises disabling access to the one or more applications;

determine through monitoring of the mobile device and the wearable device of the user that the mobile device and the wearable device associated with the user are co-located, based on the position of the mobile device and the position of the wearable device associated with the user;

in response to determining that the mobile device and the wearable device are co-located, receiving a request to restore the mobile device to an original state prior to the switch-off, wherein the original state is a state prior to the switch-off, and wherein restoring comprises reinstalling the all or part of the one or more applications that were removed from the mobile device and reconfiguring the one or more applications to their original configurations to allow the user to gain access to the one or more applications;

in response to receiving the request to restore the mobile device to the original state, prompting the user to input authentication credentials required for access to each of the one or more applications;

receiving, from the user, the required authentication credentials;

validating the authentication credentials;

in response to validating the authentication credentials, install or reconfigure the one or more applications; and

in response to validating the authentication credentials, log the user into each of the one or more applications, including logging the user into the first authentication level for the first application.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 7, wherein the authentication credentials comprise one or more of a username, a password, a passcode, a personal identification number (PIN), security questions, biometric indicia, device info associated with the mobile device, and financial account information of the user.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 7, wherein the computer-implemented method further comprises notifying the user of the switch-off by transmitting an electronic notification to a different computing device of the user.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 7, wherein the second authentication level requires only a password for authentication.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 7, wherein the first authentication level requires a security question, biometric information of the user, or a two-step verification process.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 7, wherein the computer-implemented method further comprises logging a current user of the mobile device out of one or more of the one or more applications.

13. A computer program product for integrated full and partial shutdown application programming interface, the computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable medium having one or more computer-readable programs stored therein, and the computer readable programs, when executed by a computer apparatus, cause the computer apparatus to perform the following steps:

monitor, via a computing device processor, a position of a mobile device associated with a user;

monitor, via a computing device processor, a position of a wearable device associated with the user;

determine, via a computing device processor, that the mobile device is compromised by determining that the mobile device and the wearable device associated with the user are not co-located, based on the position of the mobile device and the position of the wearable device associated with the user;

perform, via a computing device processor, a switch-off for the mobile device associated with the user in response to determining that the mobile device and the wearable device associated with the user are not co-located, wherein performing the switch-off for the mobile device comprises;

remotely accessing the mobile device;

identifying one or more applications associated with the mobile device;

identifying unopened applications of the one or more applications associated with the mobile device;

causing the mobile device to open or load the unopened applications associated with the mobile device;

logging the user out of the one or more applications, wherein logging the user out of the one or more applications comprises;

identifying a first application of the one or more applications with multiple authentication levels;

determining that the user is currently logged in to a first authentication level of the multiple authentication levels; and

logging the user out of the first authentication level for the first application, but not logging the user out of a second authentication level of the first application, where the first authentication level requires more complex user authentication credentials than the second authentication level;

confirming that the user is logged out of the one or more applications; and

in response to confirming that the user is logged out of the one or more applications, uninstalling or reconfiguring the one or more applications from the mobile device, wherein uninstalling comprises removing all or part of the one or more applications from the mobile device, and wherein reconfiguring comprises disabling access to the one or more applications;

determine through monitoring of the mobile device and the wearable device of the user that the mobile device and the wearable device associated with the user are co-located, based on the position of the mobile device and the position of the wearable device associated with the user;

in response to determining that the mobile device and the wearable device are co-located, receive, via a computing device processor, a request to restore the mobile device to an original state, wherein the original state is a state prior to the switch-off, wherein restoring comprises reinstalling the all or part of the one or more applications that were removed from the mobile device and reconfiguring the one or more applications to their original configurations to allow the user to gain access to the one or more applications;

in response to receiving the request to restore the mobile device to the original state, prompt, via a computing device processor, the user to input authentication credentials required for access to each of the one or more applications;

receive, via a computing device processor, from the user, the required authentication credentials;

validate, via a computing device processor, the authentication credentials;

in response to validating the authentication credentials, install or reconfigure, via a computing device processor, the one or more applications; and

in response to validating the authentication credentials, log, via a computing device processor, the user into each of the one or more applications, including logging the user into the first authentication level for the first application.

14. The computer program product of claim 13, wherein the authentication credentials comprise one or more of a username, a password, a passcode, a personal identification number (PIN), security questions, biometric indicia, device info associated with the mobile device, and financial account information of the user.

15. The computer program product of claim 13, wherein the computer readable programs cause the computer apparatus to notify, via a computing device processor, the user of the switch-off by transmitting an electronic notification to a different computing device of the user.

16. The computer program product of claim 13, wherein the second authentication level requires only a password for authentication.

17. The computer program product of claim 13, wherein the first authentication level requires a security question, biometric information of the user, or a two-step verification process.

18. The computer program product of claim 13, wherein the computer readable programs cause the computer apparatus to log, via a computing device processor, a current user of the mobile device out of one or more of the one or more applications.