Resonance frequency device locking

• US 10,588,020 B2
• Filed: 11/30/2018
• Issued: 03/10/2020
• 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:
  US16/205,958
• Publication Number:
  US 20190104414A1
• Time in Patent Office: 466 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/67 by electronic means
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/082 using revocation of authorisation

Abstract

Systems and methods for securing access to a mobile device are disclosed. A method includes: transmitting, by a computer device, a tone to a surface of an object; detecting, by the computer device, a frequency response from the object based on the transmitted tone; determining, by the computer device, that the detected frequency response from the surface of the object conforms to a stored frequency response; and unlocking, by the computer device, the computer device based on the determining.

Claims

1. A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a computer device to cause the computer device to:

transmit a tone to a surface of an object;

detect a frequency response from the object based on the transmitted tone;

determine that the detected frequency response from the surface of the object conforms to a stored frequency response, wherein the determining comprises comparing a detected resonance frequency of the object to a stored resonance frequency; and

unlock the computer device based on the determining,

wherein the stored frequency response is a resonance frequency of a trusted object; and

the determining comprises comparing the detected resonance frequency, a detected temporal period, a detected transmissibility, and a detected damping coefficient of the object to the stored resonance frequency, a stored temporal period, a stored transmissibility, and a stored damping coefficient.

2. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the frequency response comprises the resonance frequency of the object.

3. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the frequency response comprises a temporal period, a transmissibility, and a damping coefficient of the surface of the object.

4. The computer program product of claim 3, wherein a microphone on the computer device receives the frequency response.

5. The computer program product of claim 1, further comprising calibrating, by the computer device, the computer device to the object.

6. The computer program product of claim 5, wherein the calibrating comprises:

transmitting multiple signals to the object;

receiving a resonance frequency from the object;

storing the resonance frequency of the object.

7. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the tone comprises one of a pulse of white noise and a pulse of a particular frequency.

8. The computer program product of claim 7, wherein a speaker on the computer device transmits the tone.

9. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the unlocking is based on the detected frequency response from the object conforming to the stored frequency response of the trusted object.

10. A system, comprising:

a CPU, a computer readable memory and a computer readable storage medium associated with a computer device;

program instructions to calibrate the computer device to a first object;

program instructions to transmit a first tone to a surface of the first object;

program instructions to detect a first frequency response from the first object based on the transmitted first tone;

program instructions to determine that the detected first frequency response from the surface of the first object conforms to a stored first frequency response;

program instructions to, based on the determining that the detected first frequency response from the surface of the first object conforms to the stored first frequency response, transmit a second tone to a surface of a second object;

program instructions to detect a second frequency response from the second object based on the transmitted second tone;

program instructions to determine that the detected second frequency response from the surface of the second object conforms to a stored second frequency response; and

program instructions to unlock the computer device based on the determining that the detected first frequency response from the surface of the first object conforms to the stored first frequency response and the determining that the detected second frequency response from the surface of the second object conforms to the stored second frequency response,

wherein each of the first frequency response and the second frequency response comprises a temporal period, a transmissibility, and a damping coefficient of the surface of the object;

the stored first frequency response is a resonance frequency of a first trusted object, and the stored second frequency response is a resonance frequency of a second trusted object; and

the program instructions are stored on the computer readable storage medium for execution by the CPU via the computer readable memory.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein each of the first tone and the second tone comprises one of a pulse of white noise and a pulse of a particular frequency.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein a microphone on the computing device receives the first frequency response and the second frequency response.

13. The system of claim 10, wherein the unlocking is based on the detected first frequency response from the first object conforming to the stored first frequency response of the first trusted object and the detected second frequency response from the second object conforming to the stored second frequency response of the second trusted object.

14. A computer implemented method, comprising:

calibrating a computer device to a first object;

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

detecting, by the computer device, a first frequency response from the first object based on the transmitted first tone;

determining, by the computer device, that the detected first frequency response from the surface of the first object conforms to a stored first frequency response;

based on the determining that the detected first frequency response from the surface of the first object conforms to the stored first frequency response, transmitting, by the computer device, a second tone to a surface of a second object;

detecting, by the computer device, a second frequency response from the second object based on the transmitted second tone;

determining, by the computer device, that the detected second frequency response from the surface of the second object conforms to a stored second frequency response; and

unlocking the computer device based on the determining that the detected first frequency response from the surface of the first object conforms to the stored first frequency response and the determining that the detected second frequency response from the surface of the second object conforms to the stored second frequency response,

wherein each of the first frequency response and the second frequency response comprises a temporal period, a transmissibility, and a damping coefficient of the surface of the object; and

the stored first frequency response is a resonance frequency of a first trusted object, and the stored second frequency response is a resonance frequency of a second trusted object.

15. The computer implemented method of claim 14, wherein each of the first tone and the second tone comprises one of a pulse of white noise and a pulse of a particular frequency.

16. The computer implemented method of claim 14, wherein a microphone on the computing device receives the first frequency response and the second frequency response.

17. The computer implemented method of claim 14, wherein the unlocking is based on the detected first frequency response from the first object conforming to the stored first frequency response of the first trusted object and the detected second frequency response from the second object conforming to the stored second frequency response of the second trusted object.