Isolating received information on a locked device

• US 8,418,086 B2
• Filed: 05/29/2009
• Issued: 04/09/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/04/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Weber, Karon A., Woodcock, Katrika, Rodenhouse, Jennifer Lauren, Hamilton, Alistair
• Primary Examiner(s): Vu, Kieu
• Assistant Examiner(s): LOWENBERGER, AARON J
• Application Number:
  US12/474,281
• Publication Number:
  US 20100146235A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,411 Days
• Field of Search: 715/864, 711/165
• US Class Current: 715/864
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/67 by electronic means
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72436 for text messaging, e.g. short messaging services [SMS] or e-mails
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector digitizers for touch screens G06F3/041
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/60 logging of communication history, e.g. outgoing or incoming calls, missed calls, messages or URLs logging of telephone numbers H04M1/56, H04M1/57

Abstract

Quarantining data received while a computing device is locked. While the computing device is locked, content items such as images, notifications, voice memos, telephone numbers, and the like are stored in a first memory area. The content items are transferred to a second memory area, separate from the first memory area, based on transfer criteria associated with the content items. For example, images may be automatically uploaded to a web page after the computing device is unlocked, while a mail program executes to display any messages received while the display has been locked. In some embodiments, the user inputs the content items into a locked mobile computing device and further provides the transfer criteria for the content items.

Claims

1. A system for quarantining data received while a display of a mobile computing device is locked, said system comprising:

a first memory area for storing a plurality of content items captured from a user of a mobile computing device by the mobile computing device while a display of the mobile computing device is locked;

a second memory area, separate from the first memory area, for storing one or more of the plurality of content items from the first memory area; and

a processor programmed to;

determine transfer actions for each of the content items stored in the first memory area;

receive a command to unlock the display;

unlock the display responsive to the received command;

responsive to unlocking the display and without input from the user, applying the determined transfer actions to the plurality of content items from the first memory area to transfer said one or more of the plurality of content items from the first memory area to the second memory area.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the first memory area further stores configuration data describing functionality available to the user when the display is locked.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the configuration data identifies an application program available for execution while the display is locked, and wherein the application program, when executed, captures and stores one or more of the content items in the first memory area.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the configuration data defines a subset of functionality of the application program.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the content items relate to one or more of the following:

an electronic mail message, a voice mail message, a text message, and an image taken by a camera associated with the mobile computing device.

6. The system of claim 1, further comprising means for enabling the user to review the content items before transfer from the first memory area to the second memory area.

7. A method comprising:

receiving, by a computing device, one or more content items from a user of the computing device while a display of the computing device is locked;

defining transfer criteria for each of the received content items;

storing the received content items in a first memory area of the computing device;

receiving a command to unlock the display;

unlocking the display responsive to the received command; and

transferring, based on the defined transfer criteria and responsive to said unlocking and without input from the user, one or more of the content items from the first memory area to a second memory area of the computing device, wherein the first memory area is quarantined from the second memory area.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising defining configuration data describing functionality available to the user of the computing device when the display is locked.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein defining the configuration data comprises identifying an application program for execution while the display is locked.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein the transferred content items are associated with one or more application programs, and further comprising executing the application programs after said unlocking.

11. The method of claim 7, further comprising providing, through the locked display, representations of one or more application programs available on the computing device while the display is locked, wherein the representations are provided as a toolbar.

12. One or more computer storage media having computer-executable components, said components comprising:

a profile component that when executed by at least one processor causes the at least one processor to access configuration data identifying one or more application programs available for execution on a computing device while the computing device is in a first state;

an interface component that when executed by at least one processor causes the at least one processor to receive one or more content items from a user of the computing device while the computing device is in the first state, said interface component receiving the content items via the application programs;

a memory component that when executed by at least one processor causes the at least one processor to store the content items received by the interface component in a first memory area; and

a filter component that when executed by at least one processor causes the at least one processor to evaluate transfer criteria, responsive to transition of the computing device to a second state and without input from the user, to move one or more of the content items from the first memory area to a second memory area, said second memory area being separate from the first memory area.

13. The computer storage media of claim 12, wherein the filter component receives a command to transition the computing device to the second state, and transitions the computing device to the second state responsive to the received command.

14. The computer storage media of claim 12, wherein at least one of the content items includes a product identifier, wherein one or more of the transfer criteria identify an online merchant, and wherein the filter component obtains and provides a web page associated with the online merchant to the user of the computing device.

15. The computer storage media of claim 12, wherein the first state corresponds to a locked state of the computing device, and wherein the second state corresponds to an unlocked state of the computing device.