Behavioral fingerprint controlled automatic task determination

• US 9,348,985 B2
• Filed: 11/23/2011
• Issued: 05/24/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 11/23/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: RPX Corporation
• Original Assignee: Elwha LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Dyor, Matthew G., Gerrity, Daniel A., Huang, Xuedong, Levien, Royce A., Tegreene, Clarence T., Davis, Marc E., Hyde, Roderick A., Myhrvold, Nathan P., Malamud, Mark A., Lord, Robert W., Lord, Richard T.
• Primary Examiner(s): Rashid, Harunur
• Application Number:
  US13/373,684
• Publication Number:
  US 20130133033A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,644 Days
• Field of Search: 726/3
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/316 by observing the pattern of computer usage, e.g. typical user behaviour

Abstract

A computationally implemented method includes, but is not limited to: determining a behavioral fingerprint associated with a network-accessible user, the behavioral fingerprint providing a current status of the network-accessible user; and controlling one or more devices automatically as a function of the determined behavioral fingerprint and a direction received from the network-accessible user. In addition to the foregoing, other method aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

at least one hardware computing device; and

one or more instructions which when executed on the at least one hardware computing device cause the at least one hardware computing device to at least;

maintain at least one behavioral fingerprint, the at least one behavioral fingerprint associated with the at least one hardware computing device and at least one authorized user of the at least one hardware computing device;

detect, at least partially based on at least one comparative analysis, at least one indication that the at least one hardware computing device is not under control of the at least one authorized user, the at least one comparative analysis including at least comparing at least a portion of at least one image associated with the at least one behavioral fingerprint to at least a portion of at least one image captured by at least one image sensor of the at least one hardware computing device;

control at least one security-related aspect of the at least one hardware computing device at least partially based on at least one direction received from the at least one authorized user; and

enable one or more automatic tasks, including at least transmitting one or more alerts indicative of one or more of the at least one authorized user or the at least one hardware computing device.

21. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least one hardware computing device comprises:

one or more of at least one personal digital assistant (PDA), at least one personal entertainment device, at least one mobile phone, at least one smartphone, at least one laptop computer, at least one tablet personal computer, at least one netbook, at least one slate computer, at least one e-reader, at least one networked computer, at least one computing system comprised of a cluster of processors, at least one computing system comprised of a cluster of servers, at least one workstation computer, or at least one desktop computer.

22. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least one hardware computing device is configured to maintain at least one behavioral fingerprint, the at least one behavioral fingerprint associated with the at least one hardware computing device and at least one authorized user of the at least one hardware computing device, detect, at least partially based on at least one comparative analysis, at least one indication that the at least one hardware computing device is not under control of the at least one authorized user, the at least one comparative analysis including at least comparing at least a portion of at least one image associated with the at least one behavioral fingerprint to at least a portion of at least one image captured by at least one image sensor of the at least one hardware computing device, control at least one security-related aspect of the at least one hardware computing device at least partially based on at least one direction received from the at least one authorized user, and enable one or more automatic tasks, including at least transmitting one or more alerts indicative of one or more of the at least one authorized user or the at least one hardware computing device from at least one memory.

2. A system, comprising:

circuitry for maintaining at least one behavioral fingerprint, the at least one behavioral fingerprint associated with at least one computing device and at least one authorized user of the at least one computing device;

circuitry for detecting, at least partially based on at least one comparative analysis, at least one indication that the at least one computing device is not under control of the at least one authorized user, the at least one comparative analysis including at least comparing at least a portion of at least one image associated with the at least one behavioral fingerprint to at least a portion of at least one image captured by at least one image sensor of the at least one computing device;

circuitry for controlling at least one security-related aspect of the at least one computing device at least partially based on at least one direction received from the at least one authorized user; and

circuitry for enabling one or more automatic tasks, including at least transmitting one or more alerts indicative of one or more of the at least one authorized user or the at least one computing device.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein circuitry for enabling one or more automatic tasks, including at least transmitting one or more alerts indicative of one or more of the at least one authorized user or the at least one computing device comprises:

circuitry for transmitting at least one alert associated with notifying the at least one authorized user of the detecting at least one indication that the at least one computing device is not under control of the at least one authorized user.

4. The system of claim 2, wherein circuitry for enabling one or more automatic tasks, including at least transmitting one or more alerts indicative of one or more of the at least one authorized user or the at least one computing device comprises:

circuitry for transmitting at least one alert to at least one application running on the at least one computing device.

5. The system of claim 2, wherein circuitry for enabling one or more automatic tasks, including at least transmitting one or more alerts indicative of one or more of the at least one authorized user or the at least one computing device comprises:

circuitry for transmitting at least one signal to alert at least one task available to be performed by the at least one computing device.

6. The system of claim 2, wherein circuitry for enabling one or more automatic tasks, including at least transmitting one or more alerts indicative of one or more of the at least one authorized user or the at least one computing device comprises:

circuitry for transmitting at least one alert to at least one of (a) one or more other computing devices, (b) one or more applications running on at least one cloud computing system, or (c) one or more internet available entities via at least one cloud computing system.

7. The system of claim 2, wherein circuitry for enabling one or more automatic tasks, including at least transmitting one or more alerts indicative of one or more of the at least one authorized user or the at least one computing device comprises:

circuitry for enabling performance of one or more tasks, the one or more tasks including at least the transmitting one or more alerts, at least partially based on the detecting at least one indication that the at least one computing device is not under control of the at least one authorized user.

8. The system of claim 2, wherein circuitry for enabling one or more automatic tasks, including at least transmitting one or more alerts indicative of one or more of the at least one authorized user or the at least one computing device comprises:

circuitry for enabling performance of one or more tasks at least one of previous to, concurrently with, or subsequent to the transmitting the one or more alerts.

9. The system of claim 2, wherein circuitry for enabling one or more automatic tasks, including at least transmitting one or more alerts indicative of one or more of the at least one authorized user or the at least one computing device comprises:

circuitry for transmitting the one or more alerts at least one of previous to, concurrently with, or subsequent to the controlling at least one security-related aspect of the at least one computing device.

10. The system of claim 2, wherein circuitry for controlling at least one security-related aspect of the at least one computing device at least partially based on at least one direction received from the at least one authorized user comprises:

circuitry for receiving the at least one direction from the at least one authorized user via at least one network connection.

11. The system of claim 2, wherein circuitry for controlling at least one security-related aspect of the at least one computing device at least partially based on at least one direction received from the at least one authorized user comprises:

circuitry for controlling the at least one computing device wherein the at least one computing device includes at least one locking device, the at least one locking device including one or more of a key fob, a door lock device, an entry gate, a safe, or a cage.

12. The system of claim 2, wherein circuitry for controlling at least one security-related aspect of the at least one computing device at least partially based on at least one direction received from the at least one authorized user comprises:

circuitry for facilitating at least one disabling action relating to the at least one computing device responsive to at least one user-configurable setting of the at least one computing device if the at least one computing device is not under control of the at least one authorized user, the at least one user-configurable setting provided at least one of by default or by the at least one authorized user previous to detecting the at least one indication that the at least one computing device is not under control of the at least one authorized user.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein circuitry for facilitating at least one disabling action relating to the at least one computing device responsive to at least one user-configurable setting of the at least one computing device if the at least one computing device is not under control of the at least one authorized user, the at least one user-configurable setting provided at least one of by default or by the at least one authorized user previous to detecting the at least one indication that the at least one computing device is not under control of the at least one authorized user comprises:

circuitry for facilitating at least one disabling action relating to the at least one computing device responsive to at least one number of invalid image-based login attempts, the at least one number of invalid image-based login attempts provided at least one of by default or by the at least one authorized user previous to detecting the at least one indication that the at least one computing device is not under control of the at least one authorized user.

15. The system of claim 2, wherein circuitry for detecting, at least partially based on at least one comparative analysis, at least one indication that the at least one computing device is not under control of the at least one authorized user, the at least one comparative analysis including at least comparing at least a portion of at least one image associated with the at least one behavioral fingerprint to at least a portion of at least one image captured by at least one image sensor of the at least one computing device comprises:

circuitry for detecting, at least partially based on at least one facial recognition result, at least one indication that the at least one computing device is not under control of the at least one authorized user.

16. The system of claim 2, wherein circuitry for controlling at least one security-related aspect of the at least one computing device at least partially based on at least one direction received from the at least one authorized user comprises:

circuitry for facilitating at least one disabling action relating to the at least one computing device responsive to at least one direction received from the at least one authorized user to at least partially disable the at least one computing device if the at least one computing device is not under control of the at least one authorized user, the at least one direction received from the at least one authorized user previous to detecting the at least one indication that the at least one computing device is not under control of the at least one authorized user.

17. The system of claim 2, wherein circuitry for maintaining at least one behavioral fingerprint, the at least one behavioral fingerprint associated with at least one computing device and at least one authorized user of the at least one computing device comprises:

circuitry for maintaining at least one behavioral fingerprint, the at least one behavioral fingerprint associated with (a) one or more of at least one small form factor computing device, at least one laptop, at least one netbook, at least one tablet computer, at least one slate computer, at least one e-reader, at least one mobile phone, at least one mobile device, or at least one smartphone as the at least one computing device and (b) the at least one authorized user of the at least one computing device.

18. The system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry for maintaining, the circuitry for detecting, the circuitry for controlling, and the circuitry for enabling are effected on the at least one computing device.

19. The system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry for maintaining, the circuitry for detecting, the circuitry for controlling, and the circuitry for enabling are effected on at least one other computing device distal to the at least one computing device.

20. The system of claim 2, wherein circuitry for detecting, at least partially based on at least one comparative analysis, at least one indication that the at least one computing device is not under control of the at least one authorized user, the at least one comparative analysis including at least comparing at least a portion of at least one image associated with the at least one behavioral fingerprint to at least a portion of at least one image captured by at least one image sensor of the at least one computing device comprises:

circuitry for detecting the at least one indication that the at least one computing device is not under control of the at least one authorized user at least partially via one or more of at least one statistical algorithm, at least one statistical probability function, at least one weighting function, at least one pass image, or at least one face detection, in association with the at least one behavioral fingerprint.

23. The system of claim 2, wherein circuitry for controlling at least one security-related aspect of the at least one computing device automatically at least partially based on the detected at least one indication responsive to at least one security-related direction received from the at least one authorized user comprises:

circuitry for controlling at least one security-related aspect of the at least one computing device automatically at least partially based on the detected at least one indication responsive to at least one security-related direction received from the at least one authorized user, the at least one security-related aspect associated with at least one of authentication, access, passwords, authorization, certificates, ownership, membership, encryption, or trust.

24. The system of claim 2, wherein circuitry for maintaining at least one behavioral fingerprint, the at least one behavioral fingerprint associated with at least one computing device and at least one authorized user of the at least one computing device comprises:

circuitry for maintaining at least one behavioral fingerprint, the at least one behavioral fingerprint associated with at least one computing device and at least one network-accessible user.

25. The system of claim 2, wherein circuitry for maintaining at least one behavioral fingerprint, the at least one behavioral fingerprint associated with at least one computing device and at least one authorized user of the at least one computing device comprises:

circuitry for at least one of generating or altering at least one behavioral fingerprint, the at least one behavioral fingerprint associated with at least one computing device and at least one authorized user of the at least one computing device.

26. The system of claim 2, wherein circuitry for detecting, at least partially based on at least one comparative analysis, at least one indication that the at least one computing device is not under control of the at least one authorized user, the at least one comparative analysis including at least comparing at least a portion of at least one image associated with the at least one behavioral fingerprint to at least a portion of at least one image captured by at least one image sensor of the at least one computing device comprises:

circuitry for detecting at least one indication of at least one invalid pass image captured by the at least one image sensor associated with unlocking the at least one computing device at least partially based on the at least one behavioral fingerprint.

27. The system of claim 2, wherein circuitry for maintaining at least one behavioral fingerprint, the at least one behavioral fingerprint associated with at least one computing device and at least one authorized user of the at least one computing device comprises:

circuitry for storing at least one image captured by at least one image sensor of the at least one computing device responsive to at least one command invoked by the at least one authorized user related to at least one security aspect.

28. The system of claim 2, wherein circuitry for detecting, at least partially based on at least one comparative analysis, at least one indication that the at least one computing device is not under control of the at least one authorized user, the at least one comparative analysis including at least comparing at least a portion of at least one image associated with the at least one behavioral fingerprint to at least a portion of at least one image captured by at least one image sensor of the at least one computing device comprises:

circuitry for detecting, at least partially via the at least one image sensor of the at least one computing device, at least one indication of at least one unrecognized face associated with unlocking the at least one computing device at least partially based on the at least one behavioral fingerprint.

29. The system of claim 2, wherein circuitry for maintaining at least one behavioral fingerprint, the at least one behavioral fingerprint associated with at least one computing device and at least one authorized user of the at least one computing device comprises:

circuitry for storing at least one image associated with a face unlock feature of a mobile device in the at least one behavioral fingerprint associated with the mobile device, including at least capturing at least one image of at least one face using at least one image sensor of the mobile device during setup of the face unlock feature of the mobile device.

30. The system of claim 2, wherein circuitry for maintaining at least one behavioral fingerprint, the at least one behavioral fingerprint associated with at least one computing device and at least one authorized user of the at least one computing device comprises:

circuitry for storing at least one image associated with a face unlock feature of a mobile device in the at least one behavioral fingerprint associated with the mobile device, including at least capturing at least one image of at least one face using at least one image sensor of the mobile device during setup of the face unlock feature of the mobile device; and

circuitry for storing at least one indication of at least one audio recording associated with the face unlock feature of the mobile device in the at least one behavioral fingerprint associated with the mobile device, including at least capturing the at least one audio recording using at least one microphone of the mobile device during setup of the face unlock feature of the mobile device.

31. The system of claim 2, wherein circuitry for maintaining at least one behavioral fingerprint, the at least one behavioral fingerprint associated with at least one computing device and at least one authorized user of the at least one computing device comprises:

circuitry for storing at least two images associated with a face unlock feature of a mobile device in the at least one behavioral fingerprint associated with the mobile device, including at least capturing at least one first image of at least one face using at least one image sensor of the mobile device and capturing at least one second image of the at least one face using the at least one image sensor of the mobile device, the at least one first image or the at least one second image usable in the face unlock feature of the mobile device via the comparative analysis.

32. The system of claim 2, wherein circuitry for detecting, at least partially based on at least one comparative analysis, at least one indication that the at least one computing device is not under control of the at least one authorized user, the at least one comparative analysis including at least comparing at least a portion of at least one image associated with the at least one behavioral fingerprint to at least a portion of at least one image captured by at least one image sensor of the at least one computing device comprises:

circuitry for receiving at least one request to unlock the at least one computing device at least partially using at least one face unlock feature of the at least one computing device;

circuitry for obtaining the at least one image captured by the at least one image sensor of the at least one computing device;

circuitry for comparing at least a portion of the at least one image captured by the at least one image sensor of the at least one computing device with at least a portion of at least one image associated with the at least one behavioral fingerprint; and

circuitry for unlocking the at least one computing device at least partially based on the comparing.

33. The system of claim 32, wherein the at least one computing device includes a mobile phone capable of being unlocked using a face unlock feature.

34. The system of claim 2, wherein circuitry for controlling at least one security-related aspect of the at least one computing device at least partially based on at least one direction received from the at least one authorized user comprises:

circuitry for receiving at least one indication from at least one face unlock aspect of the at least one computing device of at least one attempt to face unlock the at least one computing device by other than the at least one authorized user; and

circuitry for maintaining at least one locked status of the at least one computing device at least partially based on the at least one authorized user previously configuring the face unlock feature as the at least one direction received from the at least one authorized user.

35. The system of claim 2, wherein circuitry for controlling at least one security-related aspect of the at least one computing device at least partially based on at least one direction received from the at least one authorized user comprises:

circuitry for maintaining at least one locked state of the at least one computing device responsive to at least one failed screen unlock attempt indicated by the at least one comparative analysis, the at least one direction received from the at least one authorized user including at least one screen lock setting of the at least one computing device authorized by the at least one authorized user previous to the at least one failed screen unlock attempt; and

wherein circuitry for enabling one or more automatic tasks, including at least transmitting one or more alerts indicative of one or more of the at least one authorized user or the at least one computing device includes at least;

circuitry for automatically sending at least one instruction to at least one module of the at least one computing device configured for incrementing at least one failed screen unlock attempts counter responsive to the at least one failed screen unlock attempt.

36. The system of claim 2, wherein circuitry for detecting, at least partially based on at least one comparative analysis, at least one indication that the at least one computing device is not under control of the at least one authorized user, the at least one comparative analysis including at least comparing at least a portion of at least one image associated with the at least one behavioral fingerprint to at least a portion of at least one image captured by at least one image sensor of the at least one computing device comprises:

circuitry for detecting the at least one indication that the at least one computing device is not under control of the at least one authorized user, including at least one indication of other than the at least one authorized user at least one of in possession of or attempting to use the at least one computing device.

14. A method, comprising:

maintaining at least one behavioral fingerprint, the at least one behavioral fingerprint associated with at least one computing device and at least one authorized user of the at least one computing device;

detecting, at least partially based on at least one comparative analysis, at least one indication that the at least one computing device is not under control of the at least one authorized user, the at least one comparative analysis including at least comparing at least a portion of at least one image associated with the at least one behavioral fingerprint to at least a portion of at least one image captured by at least one image sensor of the at least one computing device;

controlling at least one security-related aspect of the at least one computing device at least partially based on at least one direction received from the at least one authorized user; and

enabling one or more automatic tasks, including at least transmitting one or more alerts indicative of one or more of the at least one authorized user or the at least one computing device.