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Networked device access control

  • US 10,097,543 B2
  • Filed: 05/05/2016
  • Issued: 10/09/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/25/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of securely enabling remote computer logins, comprising:

  • receiving, via a wireless network, confirmation of a detected and authenticated presence of a user at a fixed remote location away from a computer apparatus;

    initiating booting, based on receiving confirmation of the detected and authenticated presence of the user at the fixed remote location, of the computer apparatus in a protected workstate that prevents acceptance of a key input to the computer apparatus while the user is remote and until a local presence of the user is detected and authenticated;

    receiving biometric information of the user;

    authenticating the local presence of the user based on the biometric information of the user;

    locally logging the user into the computer apparatus to place the computer apparatus in an unprotected workstate, in response to authenticating the local presence of the user;

    accepting a key input, by the computer apparatus in the unprotected workstate;

    making accessible the computer apparatus to the user upon unprotecting of the protected workstate of the computer apparatus;

    initiating booting of a plurality of computer apparatuses in a protected workstate that prevents access to the plurality of computer apparatuses until a local presence of the user is confirmed;

    placing each of the plurality of computer apparatuses in an unprotected workstate upon confirmation of the local presence of the user;

    enabling the user to access, upon unprotecting of the protected workstate, each of the plurality of computer apparatuses; and

    enabling another user to access the computer apparatus when the protected workstate of the computer apparatus is unprotected.

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