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

• US 10,299,133 B2
• Filed: 10/20/2018
• Issued: 05/21/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 02/17/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SmartIP LLC
• Original Assignee: Seungman Kim
• Inventors: Kim, Seungman
• Primary Examiner(s): Osifade, Idowu O
• Application Number:
  US16/166,078
• Publication Number:
  US 20190116498A1
• Time in Patent Office: 213 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 method of a mobile device which is configured to photograph an object, the method comprising:

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

displaying a photographing object on a panel of a display unit; and

changing the mobile device from a power saving mode to a normal mode,

applying 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,

changing 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

changing 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, by using a control processor.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the changing of the mobile device comprises selectively applying 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 method of claim 1, further comprising:

setting the exceptional condition after the security check process is set.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the user input is received by using a switch of the interface; and

the normal mode is displayed according to the user input of the interface.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

detecting the user input by using a sensor of the interface, wherein the user input comprises at least one of a motion or an image of a user and a motion of the mobile device; and

displaying the normal mode according to the user input of the sensor.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

displaying 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 method of claim 1, further comprising:

displaying 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 method of claim 1, further comprising:

displaying 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

disposing at least one of the first sub-user menu and the second sub-user menu 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 method 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, wherein:

the interface comprises a switch to change the mobile device from the power saving mode to the normal mode; and

the mobile device is changed from the power saving mode to the normal mode according to at least one operation of the switch, the security check process, and the exceptional condition.

11. The method 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 method of claim 1, wherein the area condition comprises a home.

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

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the security check process is required to set the area condition or to change the set area condition.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein the wireless communication condition is required to set the area condition.

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

17. The method 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 method 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 method 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 security check process is selectively applied to change the mobile device from the power saving mode to the normal mode according to the wireless communication condition and at least one of the area condition, the time condition, and the signal condition.

20. The method 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.

21. A non-transitory computer-readable medium containing computer-readable codes as a program to execute the method of claim 1.