Team security for portable information devices
First Claim
1. A portable information device including a user interface device adapted to originate and consume information on behalf of a user, the device having a security arrangement adapted for team-assisted security functionality, the device comprising:
- computer circuitry, including a processor operatively coupled to a data store;
a user interface, including display and user input devices;
wireless communications circuitry; and
a power supply that provides power to the computer circuitry, user interface, and wireless communications circuitry, the power supply including an on-board energy source;
wherein the computer circuitry includes a security module adapted to provide team-assisted security services in the portable information device, the security module including;
a thick client security portion adapted to locally process security-related tasks on the computer circuitry;
a security team connection module adapted to facilitate local wireless connectivity via the wireless communication circuitry between the portable information device and a security module of at least one other portable information device; and
a security task coordinator module adapted to locally decide, exclusive of the security team connection module, which of the security-related tasks is to be processed remotely by the security team in lieu of being processed locally on the portable information device using the computer circuitry, by at least determining, by a local analysis executed by the security task coordinator module, an indication of security priority for the portable information device;
wherein the security module is adapted to conduct an exchange of security-related information between the thick client security portion and the at least one other portable information device via the security team connection module; and
wherein the security module is configured to process, via the thick client security portion, a first security task of the security-related tasks on the computer circuitry to produce a first security task output, and to transmit, via the security team connection module, the first security task output to at least one portable information device of the security team.
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Abstract
A portable information device (PID) having a security module that conducts security-related functionality. At least some of the security-related functionality for the benefit of the PID is provided by a security team of at least one other PID. In one type of arrangement, when configured in a team processing mode, certain ones of the security functions or components operating for the benefit of the PID can be processed on one or more of the security team member devices. In another type of arrangement, the team of devices exchanges security-related information determined as a result of a single team member device'"'"'s processing of one or more security-related tasks.
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17 Claims
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1. A portable information device including a user interface device adapted to originate and consume information on behalf of a user, the device having a security arrangement adapted for team-assisted security functionality, the device comprising:
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computer circuitry, including a processor operatively coupled to a data store; a user interface, including display and user input devices; wireless communications circuitry; and a power supply that provides power to the computer circuitry, user interface, and wireless communications circuitry, the power supply including an on-board energy source; wherein the computer circuitry includes a security module adapted to provide team-assisted security services in the portable information device, the security module including; a thick client security portion adapted to locally process security-related tasks on the computer circuitry; a security team connection module adapted to facilitate local wireless connectivity via the wireless communication circuitry between the portable information device and a security module of at least one other portable information device; and a security task coordinator module adapted to locally decide, exclusive of the security team connection module, which of the security-related tasks is to be processed remotely by the security team in lieu of being processed locally on the portable information device using the computer circuitry, by at least determining, by a local analysis executed by the security task coordinator module, an indication of security priority for the portable information device; wherein the security module is adapted to conduct an exchange of security-related information between the thick client security portion and the at least one other portable information device via the security team connection module; and wherein the security module is configured to process, via the thick client security portion, a first security task of the security-related tasks on the computer circuitry to produce a first security task output, and to transmit, via the security team connection module, the first security task output to at least one portable information device of the security team. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. In a portable information device (PID) including a user interface device adapted to originate and consume information on behalf of a user, and having a dynamically self-configuring security module, a method for distributing security-related processing to a team of at least one other portable information device communicatively coupled to the PID, the method comprising:
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maintaining, by the PID, a list of the at least one other portable information device that is authorized to process security-related tasks for the benefit of the PID, the at least one other portable information device also including a user interface device adapted to originate and consume information on behalf of a user; locally deciding, by the PID, and exclusive of the team, whether to distribute a security-related task to be processed by a device of the team that is different than the PID in lieu of being processed locally by the PID, wherein the deciding is based on a characteristic of the task and on current available computing capacity of the PID, wherein the characteristic of the task is at least an indication of security priority for the portable information device; in response to a decision to distribute the security-related task, posting, by the PID, the task to a task list that is accessible to devices of the team; and receiving, by the PID, an output generated by at least one device of the team in response to a completion of processing of the task. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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