Mobile communication apparatus having anti-theft and auto-notification functions

• US 10,064,050 B2
• Filed: 12/08/2015
• Issued: 08/28/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 07/25/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: MediaTek, Inc.
• Original Assignee: MediaTek, Inc.
• Inventors: Jain, Anku, Kumar, Amit, Tu, Guan-Hua
• Primary Examiner(s): Ajibade Akonai, Olumide T
• Application Number:
  US14/962,613
• Publication Number:
  US 20160094987A1
• Time in Patent Office: 994 Days
• Field of Search: 455410, 455411
• 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: H04W 12/02 Protecting privacy or anonymity, e.g. protecting personally identifiable information [PII]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 Authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/08 Access security
• 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 72/51 based on terminal or device properties
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/183 Processing at user equipment or user record carrier
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/20 Transfer of user or subscriber data
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

A mobile communication apparatus comprises an anti-theft control circuit and a transmission control circuit. The anti-theft control circuit has an information management module and a security module. The information management module is used for storing a user personal database comprising at least one of a phonebook database, a schedule database, and an e-mail database. The transmission control circuit is used for transmitting data and/or signals. When the transmission control circuit receives a remote message, the security module examines whether the remote message is a predetermined legitimate remote control message; wherein if YES, the transmission control circuit sends out at least one record of the phonebook database, the schedule database, and the e-mail database to an electronic apparatus indicated by the remote message.

Claims

1. A mobile communication apparatus, comprising:

an anti-theft control circuit, determining whether the mobile communication apparatus is lost or stolen and comprising;

an information management module, storing a user'"'"'s personal database comprising at least one of a phonebook database, a schedule database and an e-mail database; and

a security module, performing a security action when the mobile communication apparatus is lost or stolen; and

a transmission control circuit, transmitting data and/or signals;

wherein when the transmission control circuit receives a remote message and the security module decodes the remote message using a pre-stored security code and determines that the remote message is a predetermined legitimate remote control message, the mobile communication apparatus is determined to be lost or stolen;

wherein when the mobile communication apparatus is lost or stolen, the transmission control circuit transmits a notice message, wherein a currently used SIM card is not owned by an original owner of the mobile communication apparatus and the notice message is for enabling user information corresponding to the currently used SIM card to reach a recipient of the notice message;

wherein the user information corresponding to the currently used SIM card includes a phone number corresponding to the currently used SIM card.

2. The mobile communication apparatus of claim 1, wherein the remote message is generated by an electronic device when the electronic device receives the notice message.

3. The mobile communication apparatus of claim 1, wherein when the remote message is confirmed to be the predetermined legitimate remote control message, the transmission control circuit sends out the at least one record of the phonebook database, the schedule database and the e-mail database according to a predetermined contact information.

4. The mobile communication apparatus of claim 1, wherein the security action comprises a step of locking up and encrypting at least one record of the phonebook database, the schedule database and the e-mail database according to the remote message.

5. The mobile communication apparatus of claim 1, wherein the transmission control circuit sends out at least one record of the phonebook database, the schedule database and the e-mail database when the mobile communication apparatus is determined to be lost or stolen, and deletes the at least one record of the phonebook database, the schedule database and the e-mail database after sending the at least one record of the phonebook database, the schedule database and the e-mail database out.

6. A method for protecting personal data applied in a mobile communication apparatus, comprising:

providing a user'"'"'s personal database comprising at least one of a phonebook database, a schedule database and an e-mail database, which is stored in the mobile communication apparatus;

getting second identification information from a second SIM card installed within the mobile communication apparatus;

comparing the second identification information with prestored first identification information corresponding to a first SIM card;

determining that the mobile communication apparatus is stolen or lost when the second identification information is different from the first identification information; and

when the mobile communication apparatus is stolen or lost, performing either or both of sending out at least a record of the phonebook database, the schedule database and the e-mail database to a predetermined contact information and deleting the at least one record of the phonebook database, the schedule database and the e-mail database,

wherein each of the first and second identification information is an Integrated Circuit Card Identification (ICCID), and the ICCID is a number physically printed on a SIM card.