Electronic apparatus and method of selectively applying security mode according to exceptional condition in mobile device

• US 10,149,164 B1
• Filed: 09/11/2018
• Issued: 12/04/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 02/17/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Seungman Kim
• Original Assignee: Seungman Kim
• Inventors: Kim, Seungman
• Primary Examiner(s): Osifade, Idowu O
• Application Number:
  US16/127,286
• Time in Patent Office: 84 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/66 with means for preventing unauthorised or fraudulent calling verifying user identity or authority in secret or secure digital communications H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/67 by electronic means
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/673 the user being required to key in a code
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72448 with means for adapting the functionality of the device according to specific conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72451 according to schedules, e.g. using calendar applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72463 to restrict the functionality of the device
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/724631 by limiting the access to the user interface, e.g. locking a touch-screen or a keypad
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72469 for operating the device by selecting functions from two or more displayed items, e.g. menus or icons
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 Authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/08 Access security
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0251 using monitoring of local events, e.g. events related to user activity
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0274 by switching on or off the equipment or parts thereof
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

A mobile device includes a display unit having a panel, an interface to wirelessly communicate with an external network, and a control unit configured to set a security check process, to set an exceptional condition including a wireless communication condition and an area condition, and to selectively apply the security check process to change the mobile device from a power saving mode to a normal mode according to the exceptional condition.

Claims

1. A mobile device which is configured to photograph an object, comprising:

an interface configured to receive a user input, and configured to wirelessly communicate with an external network to transmit or receive a data signal to correspond to a menu or function of the mobile device;

a display unit having a panel to display a photographing object; and

a control unit;

configured to change the mobile device from a power saving mode to a normal mode;

configured to apply a security check process of a security mode to change the mobile device from the power saving mode to the normal mode, wherein the security check process of the security mode comprises a process of receiving a password as the user input;

configured to change the mobile device from the power saving mode to the normal mode without the security check process when the mobile device is in an exceptional condition of the security mode, wherein the exceptional condition of the security mode comprises a wireless communication condition, in which the mobile device wirelessly communicates with the external network, and an area condition, in which the mobile device is located; and

configured to change the mobile device from the power saving mode to the normal mode with the security check process when the mobile device is not in the exceptional condition of the security mode.

2. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the control unit is configured to selectively apply the security check process of the security mode to change the mobile device from the power saving mode to the normal mode according to the exceptional condition.

3. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the control unit is configured to set the exceptional condition after the security check process is set.

4. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein:

the interface comprises a switch configured to receive the user input; and

the control unit is configured to display the normal mode according to the user input of the switch.

5. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein:

the interface comprises a sensor configured to detect the user input, wherein the user input comprises at least one of a motion or image of a user and a motion of the mobile device; and

the control unit is configured to display the normal mode according to the user input of the sensor.

6. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the control unit is configured to display a user menu to set the security check process of the security mode at a user-finger reachable area of the panel of the display unit such that a finger of a user hand holding the mobile device reaches the user menu.

7. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the control unit is configured to display a user menu to set the exceptional condition of the security mode at a user-finger reachable area of the panel of the display unit such that a finger of a user hand holding the mobile device reaches the user menu.

8. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein:

the control unit is configured to display a user menu including a first sub-user menu to set the wireless communication condition and a second sub-user menu to set the area condition; and

at least one of the first sub-user menu and the second sub-user menu is disposed at a user-finger reachable area of the panel of the display unit such that a finger of a user hand holding the mobile device reaches the at least one of the first sub-user menu and the second sub-user menu.

9. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the password of the security check process of the security mode comprises at least one of a character, a number, a motion, an audio, and an image.

10. The mobile device of claim 1, further comprising a switch configured to change the mobile device from the power saving mode to the normal mode,

wherein the control unit is configured to change the mobile device from the power saving mode to the normal mode according to at least one of an operation of the switch, the security check process, and the exceptional condition.

11. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein:

the mobile device receives the data signal from the external network; and

the area condition is associated with the data signal of the external network.

12. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the area condition comprises a home.

13. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the area condition comprises an area defined by at least one line or an environment.

14. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the control unit requires the security check process to set the area condition or to change the set area condition.

15. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the control unit requires the wireless communication condition to set the area condition.

16. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the wireless communication condition comprises a communication method.

17. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the external network communicating with the mobile device according to the wireless communication condition comprises one or more of a WIFI device, a wireless communication station, a carrier service station, a service provider, a wireless communication device, another mobile device, a home appliance, a vehicle, and a medical device.

18. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein:

the external network communicating with the mobile device according to the wireless communication condition comprises one or more external networks; and

the wireless communication condition comprises a combination of the one or more external networks.

19. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein:

the exceptional condition further comprises a time condition, in which the mobile device is at a predetermined time, and a signal condition in which the mobile condition receives a predetermined signal; and

the control unit is configured to selectively apply the security check process according to the wireless communication condition and at least one of the area condition, the time condition, and the signal condition, to change the mobile device from the power saving mode to the normal mode.

20. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein:

the normal mode comprises a state section and a user menu section;

the user menu section comprises a user menu to set the exceptional condition; and

the user menu is displayed at a user-finger reachable area of the panel of the display unit such that a finger of a user hand holding the mobile device reaches the user menu.