Accessible region of a device

• US 9,384,340 B2
• Filed: 02/28/2011
• Issued: 07/05/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 02/28/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Inventors: Solomon, Mark C, Wong, Glenn A, Mitchell, April Slayden, Wee, Susie, Robinson, Ian N, Chatterjee, Manjirnath
• Primary Examiner(s): Girma, Fekadeselassie
• Assistant Examiner(s): EUSTAQUIO, CAL J
• Application Number:
  US13/037,326
• Publication Number:
  US 20120218073A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,954 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/35 communicating wirelessly
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2111 Location-sensitive, e.g. geographical location, GPS
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2141 Access rights, e.g. capability lists, access control lists, access tables, access matrices

Abstract

A device to detect a portable device associated with a user accessing an accessible region of the device with a sensor, identify the portable device and log the user into the device with a profile of the user if the accessible region is accessed by the portable device, and generate a session on the device based on the profile of the user.

Claims

1. A method for logging a user into a device comprising:

detecting, by a sensor of the device, a touch of a portable communication device on an accessible region of the device, wherein the portable communication device is associated with a user;

in response to detecting the touch of the portable communication device on the accessible region, identifying the portable communication device and logging the user into the device using a profile of the user; and

generating a session on the device based on the profile of the user.

2. The method for logging the user into the device of claim 1 wherein the accessible region comprises a subset of a surface of the device defined for logging the user into the device.

3. The method for logging the user into the device of claim 1 further comprising prompting the portable communication device for an identification in response to the sensor detecting the touch of the portable communication device on the accessible region of the device.

4. The method for logging the user into the device of claim 3 wherein the profile of the user is received from the portable communication device and the device uses the profile of the user to identify the portable communication device and to log the user into the device.

5. The method for logging the user into the device of claim 3 wherein identifying the user includes receiving, from the portable communication device, a unique identification for the device to authenticate.

6. The method for logging the user into the device of claim 5 wherein the device retrieves the profile of the user from at least one of the device, the portable communication device, and a server in response to authenticating the unique identification of the portable device.

7. The method for logging the user into the device of claim 1 further comprising retrieving data associated with the profile of the user from at least one of the portable communication device, the device, and a server to include in the session of the device.

8. The method for logging the user into the device of claim 7 further comprising detecting the user accessing data associated with the profile of the user in the session with the sensor.

9. A device comprising:

a sensor to detect a touch of a portable communication device on an accessible region of the device, wherein the portable communication device is associated with a user;

a communication component to receive a profile of the user from the portable communication device if the sensor detects the accessible region being accessed; and

a controller to identify the portable communication device and log the user into a session of the device using the profile of the user received from the portable communication device;

wherein the controller generates a session of the device for the user based on the profile of the user.

10. The device of claim 9 wherein an accessible region of the device comprises a subset of a surface of the device defined for logging the user into the device.

11. The device of claim 9 wherein the portable communication device includes a portable communication component to transmit the profile of the user to the device in response to a request from the device.

12. The device of claim 9 further comprising a display device configured to render a user interface of the session of the device based on the profile of the user.

13. The device of claim 12 wherein at least one accessible region is included on the display device.

14. The device of claim 13 wherein the user interface of the session is generated at an accessed region included on the display device.

15. The device of claim 9 further comprising an additional component with at least one accessible region.

16. The device of claim 9 wherein the sensor includes at least one of a proximity device, a touch device, an image capture device, a time of flight device, a stereoscopic device, and a light sensor.

17. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions that if executed cause a controller to:

detect a touch of a portable communication device on an accessible region of the device, wherein the portable communication device is associated with a user;

receive a profile associated with the user from the portable communication device in response to the touch of the portable communication device on the accessible region; and

identify the user and log the user into a user session of the device using the profile of the user.

18. The computer readable medium comprising instructions of claim 17 wherein the profile of the user includes at least one of a unique identification, a username of the user, a password of the user, a configuration setting associated with the user, an application associated with the user, and data associated with the user.

19. The computer readable medium comprising instructions of claim 17 wherein the controller additionally prompts the user for a second identification in response to the accessible region being accessed.