Method of protecting information in a mobile communication device

• US 20070021103A1
• Filed: 07/19/2006
• Published: 01/25/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 07/20/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Inventec Appliances Corporation (Inventec Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Inventec Appliances Corporation (Inventec Corporation)
• Inventors: Zhao, Xiang, Ho, Dai-Shui
• Application Number:
  US11/458,679
• Publication Number:
  US 20070021103A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/410
• 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

Abstract

Protection of contact information and call records in a mobile communication device, such as a cell phone, is accomplished through setting a protective password, setting a PIN password, setting an electronic recipient address, and using a short message service (SMS) to send a copy of the information to a storage device, such as another mobile communication device or an information services point, at the electronic recipient address if a protective password input does not match the protective password, or if a PIN password input does not match the PIN password. To further protect the information, the information can be deleted after the copy is sent.

Claims

1. A method for backing up and protecting information in a mobile communication device comprising:

setting a protective password in the mobile communication device for providing a function of preventing the information from being stolen;

setting a PIN password in the mobile communication device for gaining access to a normal service;

setting an electronic address in the mobile communication device, the electronic address specifying a backup storage device; and

using a short message service in the mobile communication device to send information in the mobile communication device to the storage device when an inputted protective password does not match the protective password or an inputted PIN password does not match the PIN password.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the mobile communication device is a cellular phone.

3. The method of claim 2 further comprising making a copy of the information in the mobile communication device.

4. The method of claim 3 further comprising deleting the information in the mobile communication device.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein making a copy of the information comprises making a copy of a communications record in the mobile communication device.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein deleting the information in the mobile communication device comprises deleting the communications record in the mobile communication device.

7. The method of claim 4, wherein making a copy of the information comprises making a copy of a contact list in the mobile communication device.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein deleting the information comprises deleting the contact list in the mobile communication device.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the protective password comprises an alphanumeric sequence.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the PIN password comprises an alphanumeric sequence.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein using a short message service in the mobile communication device to send information in the mobile communication device to the storage device comprises converting the information to packet signals.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the electronic address in the mobile communication device comprises a mobile phone number.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the electronic address in the mobile communication device comprises an email address.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein using a short message service of the mobile communication device to send information in the mobile communication device to the storage device comprises sending the information to a mobile phone which is the storage device.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein using a short message service of the mobile communication device to send information in the mobile communication device to the storage device comprises sending the information to a data services point which is the storage device.