Mobile device locking

• US 10,375,575 B2
• Filed: 10/16/2018
• Issued: 08/06/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/24/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Bradley, Lisa M. W., Dunne, Jonathan, Harpur, Liam, Silva, Asima
• Primary Examiner(s): Di Prisco, German Viana
• Application Number:
  US16/161,554
• Publication Number:
  US 20190053056A1
• Time in Patent Office: 294 Days
• Field of Search: None
• 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 12/65 Environment-dependent, e.g. using captured environmental data
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 56/002 Mutual synchronization
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/14 Direct-mode setup

Abstract

Systems and methods for securing access to a mobile device are disclosed. A method includes: synchronizing, by a first mobile computer device, with a remote mobile computer device; transmitting, by the first mobile computer device, a tone to a surface of an object; receiving, by the first mobile computer device, a compound resonance frequency from the object based on the transmitted tone; determining, by the first mobile computer device, the received compound resonance frequency conforms to a stored compound resonance frequency; unlocking, by the first mobile computer device, the first computer device based on the determining; and establishing, by the first mobile computer device, a group connection with the remote mobile computer device based on the unlocking.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method, comprising:

synchronizing, by a first mobile computer device, with a remote mobile computer device;

transmitting, by the first mobile computer device, a tone to a surface of an object;

receiving, by the first mobile computer device, a compound resonance frequency from the object based on the transmitted tone;

determining, by the first mobile computer device, the received compound resonance frequency conforms to a stored compound resonance frequency;

unlocking, by the first mobile computer device, the first mobile computer device based on the determining; and

establishing, by the first mobile computer device, a group connection with the remote mobile computer device based on the unlocking.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the synchronizing comprises:

transmitting synchronization information to the remote mobile computer device; and

receiving synchronization response data from the remote mobile computer device based on transmitting the synchronization information.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the synchronizing comprises:

transmitting synchronization information including timing data of a time to transmit a tone to a surface of an object; and

receiving synchronization response data based on the transmitting synchronization information.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the compound resonance frequency comprises a temporal period, a transmissibility, and a damping coefficient of the surface of the object.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising locking, by the first mobile computer device, the first mobile computer device based on determining the received compound resonance frequency does not conform to the stored compound resonance frequency.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the tone comprises one of a pulse of white noise and a pulse of a particular frequency.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein a speaker on the first mobile computer device transmits the tone.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein a microphone on the first mobile computer device receives the compound resonance signal.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the stored compound resonance frequency is a stored compound resonance frequency of a trusted object.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the determining comprises comparing a resonance frequency, temporal period, transmissibility, and damping coefficient of the received compound resonance frequency from the object to the stored resonance frequency, temporal period, transmissibility, and damping coefficient of the trusted object.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the unlocking is based on the compound resonance frequency from the object conforming to the stored compound resonance frequency of a trusted object.

12. A computer implemented method, comprising:

synchronizing, by a first mobile computer device, with a remote mobile computer device;

transmitting, by the first mobile computer device, a tone to a surface of an object;

receiving, by the first mobile computer device, a compound resonance frequency from the object, wherein the compound resonance frequency is a frequency response of the object when the object is driven by the first mobile computer device and the remote mobile computer device;

determining, by the first mobile computer device, the received compound resonance frequency conforms to a stored compound resonance frequency; and

unlocking, by the first mobile computer device, the first mobile computer device based on the determining.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising transmitting, by the first mobile computer device and based on the unlocking, a request to establish a group connection with the remote mobile computer device.