Android-based mobile equipment security protection method, and device

• US 10,104,063 B2
• Filed: 08/26/2014
• Issued: 10/16/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 11/15/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Beijing Qihu Technology Co. Ltd. (360 Security Technology, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Beijing Qihu Technology Co. Ltd. (360 Security Technology, Inc.)
• Inventors: Hu, Zhong, Wang, Xin
• Primary Examiner(s): Jeudy, Josnel
• Application Number:
  US15/036,934
• Publication Number:
  US 20160285854A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,512 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/88 Detecting or preventing theft or loss
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/22 Electrical actuation
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 15/00 Identifying, scaring or incapacitating burglars, thieves or intruders, e.g. by explosives
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/24 Reminder alarms, e.g. anti-loss alarms
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/083 using passwords cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication using a predetermined code H04L9/3226
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 Authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/12 Detection or prevention of fraud
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/128 Anti-malware arrangements, e.g. protection against SMS fraud or mobile malware
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/06 Selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS]; Services to user groups; One-way selective calling services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/14 Short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD]

Abstract

The present invention discloses a method and device for the security protection of Android-based mobile equipment, the method comprising: parsing a short message received at the framework layer of a mobile equipment; determining, on the basis of the parsing result, whether contents of the short message comprise a security protection instruction; if the contents of the short message comprise the security protection instruction, providing the contents of the short message to a mobile equipment protection application of the application layer; if the contents of the short message do not comprise the security protection instruction, then proceeding to send a broadcast corresponding to the short message; wherein the mobile equipment protection application is a built-in system application, and when the sender of the short message is a predetermined object, the mobile equipment protection application performs a corresponding security protection operation according to the security protection instruction comprised in the contents of the short message.

Claims

1. A method for security protection of Android-based mobile equipment, comprising:

parsing a short message received at the framework layer of a mobile equipment;

determining, on the basis of the parsing result, whether contents of the short message comprise a security protection instruction;

providing the contents of the short message to a mobile equipment protection application of the application layer, if the contents of the short message comprise the security protection instruction;

sending a broadcast corresponding to the short message, if the contents of the short message do not comprise the security protection instruction; and

wherein the mobile equipment protection application is a built-in system application, and when the sender of the short message is a predetermined object, the mobile equipment protection application performs a corresponding security protection operation according to the security protection instruction comprised in the contents of the short message.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the parsing the short message received at the framework layer of the mobile equipment comprises:

when a short message dispatching function in the framework layer is invoked, invoking a short message checking function of a mobile equipment protection service by the short message dispatching function, the short message checking function parsing the short message.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the providing the contents of the short message to the mobile equipment protection application of the application layer comprises:

invoking, by the short message checking function, an instruction processing function of an instruction processing service in the application layer and providing the contents of the short message to the instruction processing function.

4. The method according to claim 2, wherein security protection setting information is set in the application layer, and the security protection setting information comprises:

enabling/disabling of a security protection function, a communication number of the predetermined object and a security protection instruction comprising a password.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein the method further comprises:

at the application layer, providing, by a setting function in a security management application, the security protection setting information input by a user to the framework layer by invoking a setting function of the mobile equipment protection service of the framework layer; and

storing, by the setting function in the framework layer, the security protection setting information in a folder corresponding to the mobile equipment protection application by invoking the instruction processing function of the instruction processing service of the application layer.

6. The method according to claim 4, wherein the performing the corresponding security protection operation according to the security protection instruction comprised in the contents of the short message comprises:

performing the corresponding security protection operation according to the security protection instruction comprised in the contents of the short message in the case that the security protection function is in an enabled state.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein the performing the corresponding security protection operation according to the security protection instruction comprised in the contents of the short message comprises:

performing, by the instruction processing function, an alarming, a screen locking or a data removing operation, in the case that it is determined that the security protection instruction comprised in the contents of the short message is a mobile equipment alarm instruction, a mobile equipment screen locking instruction or a data removing instruction and the password in the security protection instruction comprised in the contents of the short message is the same as the corresponding password in the security protection setting information;

or

invoking, by the instruction processing function, a locating function of a locating service in the application layer in the case that it is determined that the security protection instruction comprised in the contents of the short message is a mobile equipment locating instruction, and invoking, by the locating function, a locating function of the operating system when it is determined that the password in the security protection instruction comprised in the contents of the short message is the same as the corresponding password in the security protection setting information;

or

invoking, by the instruction processing function, a shooting function of a shooting service in the application layer in the case that it is determined that the security protection instruction comprised in the contents of the short message is a shooting instruction, and invoking, by the shooting function, a shooting function of the operating system when it is determined that the password in the security protection instruction comprised in the contents of the short message is the same as the corresponding password in the security protection setting information;

or

performing, by the instruction processing function, an alarming, a screen locking, a data removing operations and operations for invoking the locating function of the locating service in the application layer and invoking the shooting function of the shooting service in the application layer, in the case that it is determined that the security protection instruction comprised in the contents of the short message is to enable all of the security protection instructions and the password in the security protection instruction comprised in the contents of the short message is the same as the corresponding password in the security protection setting information.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the contents of the short message provided to the mobile equipment protection application of the application layer comprise:

identification information corresponding to the security protection instruction.

9. A device for security protection of Android-based mobile equipment, comprising:

one or more non-transitory computer readable medium configured to store computer-executable instruction; and

at least one processor to execute the instructions to cause;

parsing a short message received at the framework layer of a mobile equipment;

determining, on the basis of the parsing result, whether contents of the short message comprise a security protection instruction;

providing the contents of the short message to a mobile equipment protection application of the application layer, if the contents of the short message comprise the security protection instruction;

sending a broadcast corresponding to the short message, if the contents of the short message do not comprise the security protection instruction;

wherein the mobile equipment protection application is a built-in system application, and configured to perform a corresponding security protection operation according to the security protection instruction comprised in the contents of the short message when the short message is a short message sent by a predetermined object.

10. The device according to claim 9, wherein the parsing the short message received at the framework layer of the mobile equipment comprises:

when a short message dispatching function in the framework layer is invoked, invoking a short message checking function of a mobile equipment protection service by the short message dispatching function, the short message checking function parsing the short message.

11. The device according to claim 10, wherein the providing the contents of the short message to the mobile equipment protection application of the application layer comprises:

invoking, by the short message checking function, an instruction processing function of an instruction processing service in the application layer and providing the contents of the short message to the instruction processing function.

12. The device according to claim 10, wherein security protection setting information is set in the application layer, and the security protection setting information comprises:

enabling/disabling of a security protection function, a communication number of the predetermined object and a security protection instruction comprising a password.

13. The device according to claim 12, wherein the processor further executes the instructions to cause:

at the application layer, providing, by a setting function in a security management application, the security protection setting information input by a user to the framework layer by invoking a setting function of the mobile equipment protection service of the framework layer; and

storing, by the setting function in the framework layer, the security protection setting information in a folder corresponding to the mobile equipment protection application by invoking the instruction processing function of the instruction processing service of the application layer.

14. The device according to claim 12, wherein the performing the corresponding security protection operation according to the security protection instruction comprised in the contents of the short message comprises:

performing the corresponding security protection operation according to the security protection instruction comprised in the contents of the short message in the case that the security protection function is in an enabled state.

15. The device according to claim 14, wherein the performing the corresponding security protection operation according to the security protection instruction comprised in the contents of the short message comprises:

performing, by the instruction processing function, an alarming, a screen locking or a data removing operation, in the case that it is determined that the security protection instruction comprised in the contents of the short message is a mobile equipment alarm instruction, a mobile equipment screen locking instruction or a data removing instruction and the password in the security protection instruction comprised in the contents of the short message is the same as the corresponding password in the security protection setting information;

or

invoking, by the instruction processing function, a locating function of a locating service in the application layer in the case that it is determined that the security protection instruction comprised in the contents of the short message is a mobile equipment locating instruction, and invoking, by the locating function, a locating function of the operating system when it is determined that the password in the security protection instruction comprised in the contents of the short message is the same as the corresponding password in the security protection setting information;

or

invoking, by the instruction processing function, a shooting function of a shooting service in the application layer in the case that it is determined that the security protection instruction comprised in the contents of the short message is a shooting instruction, and invoking, by the shooting function, a shooting function of the operating system when it is determined that the password in the security protection instruction comprised in the contents of the short message is the same as the corresponding password in the security protection setting information;

or

performing, by the instruction processing function, an alarming, a screen locking, a data removing operations and operations for invoking the locating function of the locating service in the application layer and invoking the shooting function of the shooting service in the application layer, in the case that it is determined that the security protection instruction comprised in the contents of the short message is to enable all of the security protection instructions and the password in the security protection instruction comprised in the contents of the short message is the same as the corresponding password in the security protection setting information.

16. A non-transitory computer readable medium in which having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform operations for security protection of Android-based mobile equipment, which comprises the steps of:

parsing a short message received at the framework layer of a mobile equipment;

determining, on the basis of the parsing result, whether contents of the short message comprise a security protection instruction;

providing the contents of the short message to a mobile equipment protection application of the application layer, if the contents of the short message comprise the security protection instruction; and

sending a broadcast corresponding to the short message, if the contents of the short message do not comprise the security protection instruction,

wherein the mobile equipment protection application is a built-in system application, and when the sender of the short message is a predetermined object, the mobile equipment protection application performs a corresponding security protection operation according to the security protection instruction comprised in the contents of the short message.