Anti-theft protection method and device for cellular phone

• US 9,723,482 B2
• Filed: 07/16/2014
• Issued: 08/01/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 01/19/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tencent Technology Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Original Assignee: Tencent Technology Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Inventors: Luo, Zhanghu, Huang, Zefeng, Xiao, Quanhao, Dai, Yunfeng, Wang, Qing, Guo, Haoran, Yuan, Yixia, Song, Jiashun, Li, Pengtao
• Primary Examiner(s): Arevalo, Joseph
• Application Number:
  US14/332,718
• Publication Number:
  US 20140329500A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,112 Days
• Field of Search: 455411, 455410, 455418, 455346, 455466, 455558, 455551, 4555521
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 Authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/082 using revocation of authorisation
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/12 Detection or prevention of fraud
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/126 Anti-theft arrangements, e.g. protection against subscriber identity module [SIM] cloning
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/183 Processing at user equipment or user record carrier
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/245 from a network towards a terminal

Abstract

An anti-theft protection method and device for a cellular phone is provided. The method includes: judging whether the cellular phone satisfies a pre-set condition for starting an anti-theft mode, if so, starting the anti-theft mode; and transmitting anti-theft protection information to a designated contact to instruct the designated contact to perform anti-theft processing for the cellular phone. The device comprises a judgment module, a starting module, and a transmission module.

Claims

1. An anti-theft protection method for a cellular phone, wherein the method comprises:

judging, by a device in the cellular phone, whether the cellular phone satisfies a pre-set condition for starting an anti-theft mode, on the condition that the cellular phone satisfies the condition, starting, by the device in a cellular phone, the anti-theft mode;

transmitting, by the device in the cellular phone, anti-theft protection information to a designated contact to instruct the designated contact to perform anti-theft processing for the cellular phone;

wherein the anti-theft protection information provides preconfigured operations to be selected by the designated contact to generate an anti-theft protection instruction and indicates an instruction-transmission form for sending the generated anti-theft protection instruction, wherein the anti-theft protection instruction includes at least one of a password input box and a contact number to be displayed on the device in the cellular phone;

receiving, by the device in the cellular phone, the anti-theft protection instruction generated by the designated contact by selecting the operations indicated by the anti-theft protection information and sent by the designated contact via the instruction-transmission form; and

automatically executing, by the device in the cellular phone, the received anti-theft protection instruction.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein a process of judging whether the cellular phone satisfies a pre-set condition for starting an anti-theft mode specifically comprises:

judging whether the current user data matches pre-stored user data, on the condition that the current user data does not match the pre-stored user data, prompting a user to input an anti-theft instruction, and judging whether the user is legal according to the anti-theft instruction currently inputted by the user, and determining that the condition for starting the anti-theft mode is satisfied on the condition that the user is illegal;

or

judging whether a remote instruction for starting an anti-theft mode has been received, and determining that the condition for starting the anti-theft mode is satisfied on the condition that the remote instruction for starting an anti-theft mode has been received.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein a process of starting the anti-theft mode specifically comprises:

performing a locking operation on the cellular phone to make the current user of the cellular phone user unable to operate the cellular phone.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein after the process of starting the anti-theft mode, the method further comprises:

obtaining an unlocking instruction inputted by the current user, judging whether the unlock instruction is correct, and exiting the anti-theft mode on the condition that the unlocking instruction is correct;

or

receiving a remote unlocking instruction, and exiting the anti-theft mode in accordance with the remote unlocking instruction.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein after a process of starting the anti-theft mode, the method further comprises:

executing a pre-set anti-theft protection instruction.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the anti-theft protection information comprises the operations to be selected to generate the anti-theft protection instruction and the instruction-transmission form for sending the generated anti-theft protection instruction, and a process of the designated contact performing the anti-theft processing for the cellular phone specifically comprises:

the designated contact generating the anti-theft protection instruction by editing according to the operations selected from the anti-theft protection information, and transmitting through a device the anti-theft protection instruction to the cellular phone in the instruction-transmission form, and accordingly, upon receiving the anti-theft protection instruction, the cellular phone automatically executing the received anti-theft protection instruction.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the anti-theft protection information comprises a web address, the website corresponding to the web address is adapted for saving the operations to be selected to generate the anti-theft protection instruction and the instruction-transmission form for sending the generated anti-theft protection instruction, and a process of the designated contact performing the anti-theft processing for the cellular phone specifically comprises:

the designated contact generating the anti-theft protection instruction by selecting the operations from the website, and transmitting through a device the anti-theft protection instruction to the cellular phone in the instruction-transmission form, and accordingly, upon receiving the anti-theft protection instruction, the cellular phone automatically executing the received anti-theft protection instruction.

8. The method according to claim 5, wherein the anti-theft protection instruction specifically comprises at least one of:

an instruction for forcedly displaying a built-in content, an instruction for forcedly displaying a remote built-in content, an instruction for uploading user location information, an instruction for replacing SIM card to send a short message to a port, an instruction for automatically accepting an incoming call, an instruction for automatically shooting through a front camera and an instruction for deleting/backing up designated data.

9. A cellular phone, comprising:

an anti-theft device on the cellular phone including;

a judgment module, adapted for judging whether the cellular phone satisfies a pre-set condition for starting an anti-theft mode;

a starting module, adapted for starting the anti-theft mode on the condition that a judgment result of the judgment module is that the condition for starting the anti-theft mode is satisfied;

a transmission module, adapted for transmitting anti-theft protection information to a designated contact to instruct the designated contact to perform anti-theft processing for the cellular phone after the starting module starts the anti-theft mode;

wherein the anti-theft protection information provides preconfigured operations to be selected by the designated contact to generate an anti-theft protection instruction and indicates an instruction-transmission form for sending the generated anti-theft protection instruction, wherein the anti-theft protection instruction includes at least one of a password input box and a contact number to be displayed on the device in the cellular phone; and

a module, adapted for receiving, by the device in the cellular phone, the anti-theft protection instruction generated by the designated contact by selecting the operations indicated by the anti-theft protection information and sent by the designated contact via the instruction-transmission form; and

executing automatically, by the device in the cellular phone, the received anti-theft protection instruction.

10. The device according to claim 9, wherein the judgment module specifically comprises:

a first judgment unit, adapted for judging whether the current user data matches pre-stored user data;

a prompting unit, adapted for prompting a user to input an anti-theft instruction on the condition that a judgment result of the first judgment unit is that the current user data does not match the pre-stored user data;

a second judgment unit, adapted for judging whether the user is legal according to the anti-theft instruction currently inputted by the user, and determining that the condition for starting the anti-theft mode is satisfied on the condition that the user is illegal; and

a third judgment unit, adapted for judging whether a remote instruction for starting an anti-theft mode has been received, and determining that the condition for starting the anti-theft mode is satisfied on the condition that the remote instruction for starting an anti-theft mode has been received.

11. The device according to claim 9, wherein the starting module is specifically adapted for performing a locking operation on the cellular phone to make the current user of the cellular phone user unable to operate the cellular phone on the condition that a judgment result of the judgment module is that the condition for starting anti-theft mode is satisfied.

12. The device according to claim 11, wherein the device further comprises:

an anti-theft mode exiting module, wherein

the anti-theft mode exiting module is adapted for, after the starting module starts the anti-theft mode, obtaining an unlocking instruction inputted by the current user, judging whether the unlock instruction is correct, and exiting the anti-theft mode on the condition that the unlocking instruction is correct;

or is adapted for, after the starting module starts the anti-theft mode, receiving a remote unlocking instruction, and exiting the anti-theft mode in accordance with the remote unlocking instruction.

13. The device according to claim 9, wherein the device further comprises:

a first instruction execution module, adapted for executing a pre-set anti-theft protection instruction after the starting module starts the anti-theft mode.

14. The device according to claim 13, wherein the anti-theft protection instruction specifically comprises at least one of:

an instruction for forcedly displaying a built-in content, an instruction for forcedly displaying a remote built-in content, an instruction for uploading user location information, an instruction for replacing SIM card to send a short message to a port, an instruction for automatically accepting an incoming call, an instruction for automatically shooting through a front camera and an instruction for deleting/backing up designated data.

15. The device according to claim 9, wherein the anti-theft protection information comprises the operations to be selected to generate the anti-theft protection instruction and the instruction-transmission form for sending the generated anti-theft protection instruction, and the module comprises:

a second instruction execution module, adapted for, after the designated contact transmitting the anti-theft protection instruction through a second device to the cellular phone in the instruction-transmission form, wherein the anti-theft protection instruction is generated by the designated contact by editing according to the operations selected from the anti-theft protection information;

receiving the anti-theft protection instruction, and automatically executing the received anti-theft protection instruction.

16. The device according to claim 9, wherein the anti-theft protection information comprises a web address, the website corresponding to the web address is adapted for saving operations to be selected to generate the anti-theft protection instruction and the instruction-transmission form for sending the generated anti-theft protection instruction, the module comprises:

a second instruction execution module, adapted for, after the designated contact transmitting the anti-theft protection instruction through a second device to the cellular phone in the instruction-transmission form, wherein the anti-theft protection instruction is generated by the designated contact by selecting the operations from the website;

receiving the anti-theft protection instruction, and automatically executing the received anti-theft protection instruction.

17. A non-transitory computer-readable medium, having a set of instructions stored thereon, wherein when the set of instructions is executed, a computer is enabled to perform an anti-theft protection method for a cellular phone, comprising:

judging whether the cellular phone satisfies a pre-set condition for starting an anti-theft mode, on the condition that the cellular phone satisfies the condition, starting the anti-theft mode;

transmitting anti-theft protection information to a designated contact to instruct the designated contact to perform anti-theft processing for the cellular phone;

wherein the anti-theft protection information provides preconfigured operations to be selected by the designated contact to generate an anti-theft protection instruction and indicates an instruction-transmission form for sending the generated anti-theft protection instruction, wherein the anti-theft protection instruction includes at least one of a password input box and a contact number to be displayed on the device in the cellular phone;

receiving the anti-theft protection instruction generated by the designated contact by selecting the operations indicated by the anti-theft protection information and sent by the designated contact via the instruction-transmission form; and

automatically executing the received anti-theft protection instruction.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 17, wherein a process of judging whether the cellular phone satisfies a pre-set condition for starting an anti-theft mode specifically comprises:

judging whether the current user data matches pre-stored user data, on the condition that the current user data does not match the pre-stored user data, prompting a user to input an anti-theft instruction, and judging whether the user is legal according to the anti-theft instruction currently inputted by the user, and determining that the condition for starting the anti-theft mode is satisfied on the condition that the user is illegal;

or

judging whether a remote instruction for starting an anti-theft mode has been received, and determining that the condition for starting the anti-theft mode is satisfied on the condition that the remote instruction for starting an anti-theft mode has been received.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 17, wherein a process of starting the anti-theft mode specifically comprises:

performing a locking operation on the cellular phone to make the current user of the cellular phone user unable to operate the cellular phone.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 17, wherein

on the condition that the anti-theft protection information comprises the operations to be selected to generate the anti-theft protection instruction and the instruction-transmission form for sending the generated anti-theft protection instruction, a process of the designated contact performing the anti-theft processing for the cellular phone specifically comprises:

the designated contact generating the anti-theft protection instruction by editing according to the operations selected from the anti-theft protection information, and transmitting through a device the anti-theft protection instruction to the cellular phone in the instruction-transmission form, and accordingly, upon receiving the anti-theft protection instruction, the cellular phone automatically executing the received anti-theft protection instruction;

or

on the condition that the anti-theft protection information comprises a web address corresponding to the website adapted for saving operations to be selected to generate the anti-theft protection instruction and the instruction-transmission form for sending the generated anti-theft protection instruction, a process of the designated contact performing the anti-theft processing for the cellular phone specifically comprises;

the designated contact generating the anti-theft protection instruction by selecting the operations from the website, and transmitting through a device the anti-theft protection instruction to the cellular phone in the instruction-transmission form, and accordingly, upon receiving the anti-theft protection instruction, the cellular phone automatically executing the received anti-theft protection instruction.