Multi touch combination for viewing sensitive information

• US 10,545,660 B2
• Filed: 05/03/2013
• Issued: 01/28/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 05/03/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Malikie Innovations Limited (Key Patent Innovations Limited)
• Original Assignee: Blackberry Limited
• Inventors: Sandstrom, Henrik, Berglund, Carl Fredrik Alexander
• Primary Examiner(s): Sadio, Insa
• Application Number:
  US13/887,003
• Publication Number:
  US 20140331188A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,461 Days
• Field of Search: 345156, 345173-184
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/36 by graphic or iconic representation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6209 to a single file or object, e.g. in a secure envelope, encrypted and accessed using a key, or with access control rules appended to the object itself
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04808 Several contacts: gestures triggering a specific function, e.g. scrolling, zooming, right-click, when the user establishes several contacts with the surface simultaneously; e.g. using several fingers or a combination of fingers and pen
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

A method at an electronic device including a user input device, the method comprising: receiving data comprising displayable content and data indicating that touch events corresponding to a pattern of multiple touches are to be detected in order to display the displayable content; upon detecting touch events corresponding to the pattern of multiple touches, displaying the displayable content; and ceasing to display the displayable content once the touch events corresponding to the pattern of multiple touches are no longer detected.

Claims

1. A method at an electronic device including a user input device, the method comprising:

receiving, at the electronic device and from a sending device, first data comprising displayable content and second data indicating a security pattern that is to be detected on the electronic device in order to display the displayable content, wherein the second data indicates touch events corresponding to the security pattern of multiple touches, and the sending device is different than the electronic device;

while detecting, at the electronic device, touch events corresponding to the security pattern of multiple touches, displaying the displayable content on a display of the electronic device; and

removing the displayable content from the display as soon as the touch events corresponding to the security pattern of multiple touches are no longer detected at the electronic device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the second data indicates one of a plurality of security patterns of multiple touches stored on the electronic device.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the second data indicates a complexity of the security pattern of multiple touches.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the second data comprises details of the security pattern of multiple touches.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein displaying the displayable content triggers a timer, and an expiration of the timer causes the electronic device to remove the displayable content from the electronic device.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising receiving an indication of a duration of the timer.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying the security pattern of multiple touches.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising indicating when the detected touch events do not match the security pattern of multiple touches.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the security pattern of multiple touches corresponds to individual touches detected at multiple locations on the electronic device.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the security pattern of multiple touches corresponds to one or more touches moving over different locations on the electronic device.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the displayable content is an image, or a video, or a text, or any combination thereof.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the display and the user input device operate together as a touch-sensitive display.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the user input device comprises one or more of the following:

a touch-sensitive display, one or more hardware buttons, and a touch-sensitive panel.

14. An electronic device comprising:

a user input device;

one or more processors; and

memory comprising instructions which when executed by the one or more processors cause the electronic device to;

receive, at the electronic device and from a sending device, first data comprising displayable content and second data indicating a security pattern that is to be detected on the electronic device in order to display the displayable content, wherein the second data indicates touch events corresponding to the security pattern of multiple touches, and the sending device is different than the electronic device;

during detection of touch events corresponding to the security pattern of multiple touches at the electronic device, display the displayable content on a display of the electronic device; and

remove the displayable content from the display as soon as the touch events corresponding to the security pattern of multiple touches are no longer detected at the electronic device.

15. The electronic device of claim 14, wherein the second data indicates one of a plurality of security patterns of multiple touches stored on the electronic device.

16. The electronic device of claim 14, wherein the second data comprises details of the security pattern of multiple touches.

17. The electronic device of claim 14, wherein displaying the displayable content triggers a timer, and an expiration of the timer causes the electronic device to remove the displayable content from the electronic device.

18. The electronic device of claim 17, wherein the instructions which when executed by the one or more processors further cause the electronic device to receive an indication of a duration of the timer.

19. The electronic device of claim 14, wherein the memory comprises further instructions to display the security pattern of multiple touches.

20. The electronic device of claim 14, wherein the memory comprises further instructions to indicate when the detected touch events do not match the security pattern of multiple touches.

21. The electronic device of claim 14, wherein the security pattern of multiple touches corresponds to individual touches detected at multiple locations on the electronic device.

22. The electronic device of claim 14, wherein the security pattern of multiple touches corresponds to one or more touches moving over different locations on the electronic device.

23. The electronic device of claim 14, wherein the display and the user input device operate together as a touch-sensitive display.

24. The electronic device of claim 14, wherein the user input device comprises one or more of the following:

a touch-sensitive display, one or more hardware buttons, and a touch-sensitive panel.

25. One or more non-transitory computer readable media comprising instructions, which when executed by one or more of the processors of an electronic device having a user input device, cause the electronic device to:

receive, at the electronic device and from a sending device, first data comprising displayable content and second data indicating a security pattern that is to be detected on the electronic device in order to display the displayable content, wherein the second data indicates touch events corresponding to the security pattern of multiple touches, and the sending device is different than the electronic device;

during detection of touch events corresponding to the security pattern of multiple touches at the electronic device, display the displayable content on a display of the electronic device; and

remove the displayable content from the display as soon as the touch events corresponding to the security pattern of multiple touches are no longer detected at the electronic device.