Method and device for providing a private page

• US 9,607,157 B2
• Filed: 03/27/2014
• Issued: 03/28/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/27/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kim, Yoon-su, Sohn, Jung-joo, Lee, Keum-koo, Jin, Young-kyu, Park, Yong-gook
• Primary Examiner(s): Smithers, Matthew
• Application Number:
  US14/227,541
• Publication Number:
  US 20140298478A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,097 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/31 User authentication
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/60 Protecting data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6218 to a system of files or objects, e.g. local or distributed file system or database
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6281 at program execution time, where the protection is within the operating system
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/84 output devices, e.g. displays or monitors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2105 Dual mode as a secondary aspect
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2149 Restricted operating environment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/013 Eye tracking input arrangements G06F3/015 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0346 with detection of the device orientation or free movement in a 3D space, e.g. 3D mice, 6-DOF [six degrees of freedom] pointers using gyroscopes, accelerometers or tilt-sensors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/02 Protecting privacy or anonymity, e.g. protecting personally identifiable information [PII]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/03 Protecting confidentiality, e.g. by encryption

Abstract

Methods and devices for providing a private page are provided. A method includes operations of entering a security mode based on a user input; extracting the private page that corresponds to the security mode; and providing both the private page and a normal page that is provided during a normal mode, wherein the private page includes at least one object that is selected by a user so as to be provided during the security mode. A device includes a user input configured to receive a user input; a controller configured to enter a security mode based on the received user input, and extracting a private page that corresponds to the security mode; and a display configured to provide both the private page and a normal page that is provided during a normal mode, wherein the private page comprises at least one object that is selected by a user so as to be provided during the security mode.

Claims

1. A method of providing a private page, the method comprising:

entering a security mode based on a user input;

extracting the private page that corresponds to the security mode; and

providing both the private page and a normal page that is provided during a normal mode,

wherein the private page comprises at least one object that is selected by a user so as to be provided during the security mode, the at least one object being movable by the user between the private page and the normal page,

wherein the normal mode provides the normal page without the private page, the normal page comprises at least one object that is selected by the user so as to be provided during the normal mode.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one object is prevented from being provided during the normal mode.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one object comprises at least one of an application, at least one function provided by the application, and at least one content provided by the application.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a user input to move a first object comprised in the normal page to the private page;

displaying the first object in the private page; and

preventing the first object and information related to the first object from being provided during the normal mode.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the information related to the first object comprises at least one of an icon of the first object, installation information related to the first object, notice information related to the first object, and usage history information related to the first object.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the preventing comprises:

extracting a second object related to the first object; and

preventing the second object or information related to the second object from being provided during the normal mode.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the providing comprises displaying a predetermined indicator which indicates the private page on the private page.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the predetermined indicator comprises at least one of a predetermined color, a predetermined background image, a predetermined icon, and a predetermined text.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying an indicator on the at least one object comprised in the private page, wherein the indicator corresponds to the private page.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying an image which corresponds to the security mode on a status information window.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

detecting an occurrence of a notice event;

determining a page that comprises an object related to the notice event; and

providing notice information, based on a notifying method that corresponds to the determined page.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the providing of the notice information comprises:

detecting an occurrence of a notice event related to an object comprised in the private page during the normal mode; and

providing notice information related to the object, based on a notifying method that corresponds to the private page.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the entering comprises receiving a second user input that is distinguished from a first user input to enter the normal mode.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the security mode comprises a plurality of security modes that respectively correspond to a plurality of user inputs.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the entering further comprises:

entering a first security mode, based on a first user input; and

entering a second security mode, based on a second user input.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the entering of the security mode comprises distinguishing between the first user input and the second user input, based on at least one of pattern information, number information, information related to a user'"'"'s gaze direction, information related to a user'"'"'s face, fingerprint information, tilt information, and motion information that are input to a locked screen.

33. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program, wherein the program, when executed by a processor of a computer, causes the computer to execute the method of claim 1.

17. A device comprising:

a user input configured to receive a user input;

a controller configured to enter a security mode based on the received user input, and extract a private page that corresponds to the security mode; and

a display configured to provide both the private page and a normal page that is provided during a normal mode,

wherein the private page comprises at least one object that is selected by a user so as to be provided during the security mode, the at least one object being movable by the user between the private page and the normal page,

wherein the normal mode provides the normal page without the private page, the normal page comprises at least one object that is selected by the user so as to be provided during the normal mode.

18. The device of claim 17, wherein upon being in a security mode, the controller is configured to prevent the at least one object from being provided during the normal mode.

19. The device of claim 17, wherein the at least one object comprises at least one of an application, at least one function provided by the application, and at least one content provided by the application.

20. The device of claim 17, wherein the user input is configured to receive a user input to move a first object comprised in the normal page to the private page,

the display to display the first object on the private page, and

the controller is configured to prevent the first object and information related to the first object from being provided during the normal mode.

21. The device of claim 20, wherein the information related to the first object comprises at least one of an icon of the first object, installation information related to the first object, notice information related to the first object, and use history information related to the first object.

22. The device of claim 20, wherein the controller is configured to extract a second object related to the first object, and prevent the second object or information related to the second object from being provided during the normal mode.

23. The device of claim 17, wherein the display is configured to display a predetermined indicator which indicates the private page on the private page.

24. The device of claim 23, wherein the predetermined indicator comprises at least one of a predetermined color, a predetermined background image, a predetermined icon and a predetermined text.

25. The device of claim 17, wherein the display is configured to display an indicator on the at least one object comprised in the private page, wherein the indicator corresponds to the private page.

26. The device of claim 17, wherein the display is configured to display an image which corresponds to the security mode on a status information window.

27. The device of claim 17, wherein the controller is configured to detect an occurrence of a notice event, determine a page that comprises an object related to the notice event, and provides notice information, based on a notifying method that corresponds to the determined page.

28. The device of claim 27, wherein the controller is configured to detect an occurrence of a notice event related to an object comprised in the private page during the normal mode, and provide notice information related to the object, based on a notifying method that corresponds to the private page.

29. The device of claim 17, wherein the user input is configured to receive a second user input that is distinguished from a first user input of entering the normal mode.

30. The device of claim 17, wherein the security mode comprises a plurality of security modes that respectively correspond to a plurality of user inputs.

31. The device of claim 30, wherein the controller is configured to enter a first security mode, based on a first user input, and enters a second security mode, based on a second user input different from the first user input.

32. The device of claim 31, wherein the controller is configured to distinguish between the first user input and the second user input, based on at least one of pattern information, number information, information about a user'"'"'s gaze direction, information about a user'"'"'s face, fingerprint information, tilt information and motion information that are input to a lock screen.

34. A plural mode device having a normal mode and at least one security mode, the device comprising:

a user input configured to receive an input from a user to enter a normal mode or to enter one or more security modes; and

a controller configured to enter a device into a normal mode in response to an input for a normal mode being input by a user, and to enter a device into a security mode in response to an input to enter a security mode being input by the user, wherein in normal mode a user accesses one or more normal pages and in security mode the user accesses the one or more normal pages and one or more pages designated by the user as private pages, wherein the one or more private pages comprise at least one object that is selected by a user so as to be provided during the security mode, the at least one object being movable by the user between the private page and the normal page,

wherein the normal mode provides the normal page without the one or more private pages, the normal page comprises at least one object that is selected by the user so as to be provided during the normal mode.

35. The plural mode device of claim 34, further comprising a display to display the one or more normal pages in normal mode and display both the one or more private pages and the one or more normal pages in security mode.

36. The plural mode device of claim 34, wherein the controller is configured to prevent private pages from being displayed during normal mode.

37. The plural mode device of claim 34, wherein the at least one object comprises at least one of an application, at least one function provided by the application, and at least one content provided by the application.

38. The plural mode device of claim 34, wherein the user input is configured to receive a user input to move a first object comprising a normal page to the one or more private pages.