Electronic apparatus and method of selectively applying security in mobile device

• US 9,973,929 B1
• Filed: 12/25/2017
• Issued: 05/15/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 02/17/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Seungman Kim
• Original Assignee: Seungman Kim
• Inventors: Kim, Seungman
• Primary Examiner(s): Osifade, Idowu O
• Application Number:
  US15/853,870
• Publication Number:
  US 20180139609A1
• Time in Patent Office: 141 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/66 with means for preventing unauthorised or fraudulent calling verifying user identity or authority in secret or secure digital communications H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/67 by electronic means
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/673 the user being required to key in a code
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72448 with means for adapting the functionality of the device according to specific conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72451 according to schedules, e.g. using calendar applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72463 to restrict the functionality of the device
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/724631 by limiting the access to the user interface, e.g. locking a touch-screen or a keypad
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72469 for operating the device by selecting functions from two or more displayed items, e.g. menus or icons
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 Authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/08 Access security
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0251 using monitoring of local events, e.g. events related to user activity
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0274 by switching on or off the equipment or parts thereof
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

A mobile device includes a display unit to display a screen to set the mobile device in a security mode and a condition as a safe zone in the security mode, a user interface to receive a user input to activate the mobile device, and a control unit to selectively apply the security mode in response to the user input when a current condition is identical to the set condition.

Claims

1. A mobile device configured to photograph an object, the mobile device comprising:

an interface unit configured to receive a user input and to wirelessly communicate with an external device to transmit or receive a data signal;

a switch configured to change the mobile device from a power saving mode to a normal mode;

a display unit having a panel configured to display a photographing object, to display a first screen to set a password as a security mode, a second screen to set an exceptional condition as a safe zone of the security mode, and a third screen to receive the password as a security check process of the security mode, wherein the exceptional condition comprises a wireless communication condition and an area condition; and

a control unit configured to not display the third screen and to change the mobile device from the power saving mode to the normal mode without the password as the safe zone of the security mode when a current location of the mobile device matches the area condition and when a current wireless communication of the mobile device matches the wireless communication condition, and configured to display the third screen on the display unit and to change the mobile device from the power saving mode to the normal mode by receiving the password as the security check process of the security mode when the current location of the mobile device does not match the area condition or when the current wireless communication of the mobile device does not match the wireless communication condition.

2. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein:

the wireless communication condition is a wireless connection between the interface unit and the external device to transmit or receive the data signal; and

the area condition is an area in which the mobile device is located.

3. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the area condition is associated with the data signal of the wireless communication condition.

4. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the area condition is an area which is settable according to communication of the interface unit with the external device.

5. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the area condition comprises an area defined by a line.

6. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein:

the area condition is an area, a house, or an environment;

the current location does not match the area condition when the mobile device is away from the area, the house, or the environment; and

the current location matches the area condition when the mobile device is in the area, the house, or the environment.

7. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the external device comprises at least one of a WIFI device, a wireless communication station, a carrier service station, a service provider, a wireless communication device, a network, another mobile device, a home appliance, a vehicle, and a medical device.

8. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the switch comprises a sensor to detect a motion of the mobile device or to detect a motion or image of a user.

9. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the exceptional condition is set in the second screen after the password is set in the first screen.

10. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the control unit determines whether the exceptional condition of the security mode is met, after the mobile device is changed from the normal mode to the power saving mode after the exceptional condition is set in the second screen.

11. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the control unit displays or does not display the third screen to change the mobile device from the power saving mode to the normal mode, in response to an operation of the switch after the mobile device is changed from the normal mode to the power saving mode after the exceptional condition is set in the second screen.

12. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the control unit performs the security check process or the exceptional condition in the security mode, in response to an operation of the switch after the mobile device is changed from the normal mode to the power saving mode after the exceptional condition is set in the second screen.

13. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein:

the display unit displays an unlock message section according to an operation of the switch; and

the display unit displays or does not display the third screen according to a comparison between a current condition of the mobile device and the exceptional condition, in response to an operation of the unlock message section.

14. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein:

the third screen is not displayed when the switch operates and when a current condition of the mobile device matches the exceptional condition; and

the third screen is displayed when the switch operates and when the current condition of the mobile device does not match the exceptional condition.

15. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the display unit displays a screen including a menu to indicate a connection state of the external device in which the interface unit wirelessly communicates with the external device to transmit or receive the data signal.

16. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the control unit requires the password when the area condition is to be changed.

17. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the wireless communication condition comprises at least one of a selection of one of external devices, a connection state of the mobile device with the external device to transmit or receive the data signal, and a communication method of the mobile device with the external device by using a carrier, a telephone number, or a personal character.

19. The mobile device of claim 17, wherein:

the time condition comprises a time period; and

the signal condition comprises a predetermined signal received from the external device and recognized by the mobile device.

20. The mobile device of claim 17, wherein the wireless communication condition comprises at least one of:

a selection of one of a plurality of external devices to transmit or receive the data signal;

a connection state of the mobile device with the external device to transmit or receive the data signal; and

a communication method of the mobile device with the external device to transmit or receive the data signal by using a carrier, a telephone number, or a personal character.

18. A mobile device configured to photograph an object, the mobile device comprising:

an interface unit configured to receive a user input and to wirelessly communicate with an external device to transmit or receive a data signal;

a switch configured to change the mobile device from a power saving mode to a normal mode;

a display unit having a panel configured to display a photographing object, to display a first screen to set a password as a security mode, a second screen to set an exceptional condition as a safe zone of the security mode, and a third screen to receive the password as a security check process of the security mode, wherein the exceptional condition comprises a wireless communication condition and at least one of an area condition, a time condition, and a signal condition; and

a control unit configured to not display the third screen and to change the mobile device from the power saving mode to the normal mode without the password as the safe zone of the security mode when the switch operates and when a current condition of the mobile device matches the exceptional condition, and configured to display the third screen on the display unit and to change the mobile device from the power saving mode to the normal mode by receiving the password as the security process of the security mode when the switch operates or when the current condition of the mobile device does not match the exceptional condition.