Method and apparatus for secure access controlling of terminal

• US 9,860,821 B2
• Filed: 08/25/2015
• Issued: 01/02/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 01/27/2015
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: Jung, Woo Sug
• Primary Examiner(s): Nealon, William
• Application Number:
  US14/834,610
• Publication Number:
  US 20160219492A1
• Time in Patent Office: 861 Days
• Field of Search: 455411
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/08 Access security
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/63 Location-dependent; Proximity-dependent
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/68 Gesture-dependent or behaviour-dependent
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/04 based on user or terminal location or mobility data, e.g. moving direction, speed

Abstract

Provided herein is an apparatus and method for secure access controlling of a terminal, and more particularly, to a method for secure access controlling of a terminal configured to analyze a behavior pattern of the terminal based on location tracking and path anticipating of the terminal, compare a current location and an anticipated path so as to restrict secure access when an abnormality is discovered from the behavior pattern, and an apparatus thereof, the method including inferring an anticipated path of the terminal based on location information of the terminal collected on a predetermined cycle; determining whether or not the terminal deviated from the anticipated path by comparing a current location of the terminal and the anticipated path of the terminal; and in response to determining that the terminal deviated from the anticipated path, rejecting a secure access request of the terminal.

Claims

1. A method for an apparatus to control secure access controlling of a terminal, the apparatus comprising a controller configured to perform the steps of the method comprising:

inferring an anticipated path of the terminal based on location information of the terminal collected on a predetermined cycle;

determining whether or not the terminal deviated from the anticipated path by comparing a current location of the terminal and the anticipated path; and

rejecting, when the terminal deviated from the anticipated path, a secure access request of the terminal unless an approval for location deviation is obtained upon a terminal managing person submitting a location approval request to an input unit within the terminal upon a notification received by the terminal managing person that the terminal has deviated from the anticipated path.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the program code that determines whether or not the terminal deviated from the anticipated path comprises:

program code that determines whether or not the terminal deviated from a sample anticipated path that consists of at least part of the anticipated path; and

program code that determines, when the terminal deviated from the sample anticipated path, whether or not the terminal deviated from the entire anticipated path.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the program code that determines whether or not the terminal deviated from the anticipated path comprises:

program code that computes an error range of the anticipated path based on the location information of the terminal collected on the predetermined cycle; and

program code that determines, when the current location of the terminal being outside the error range of the anticipated path, that the terminal deviated from the anticipated path.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the error range of the anticipated path consists of a circle having a location of the terminal at a first time point as a center, and a difference between the location of the terminal at the first time point and a location of the terminal at a second time point that comes before the first time point as a radius.

5. The method according to claim 1, further comprising, program code that outputs, when the terminal deviated from the anticipated path, information on deviation from the anticipated path.

6. The method according to claim 5, further comprising, program code that re-infers, when the request for approval of the current location is sensed in response to the information on the deviation from the anticipated path of the terminal, the anticipated path based on the current location.

7. The method according to claim 1, further comprising program code that collects information on a user of the terminal, and wherein inferring the anticipated path comprises inferring the anticipated path based on the information on the user of the terminal.

8. An apparatus for secure access controlling of a terminal, the apparatus comprising:

a communication unit configured to receive location information of the terminal collected on a predetermined cycle; and

a control unit configured to infer an anticipated path of the terminal based on the location information of the terminal collected on the predetermined cycle, compare a current location of the terminal and the anticipated path, determine whether or not the terminal deviated from the anticipated path, reject, when the terminal deviated from the anticipated path, a secure access request of the terminal unless an approval for location deviation is obtained upon a terminal managing person submitting a location approval request to an input unit within the terminal upon a notification received by the terminal managing person that the terminal has deviated from the anticipated path.

9. The apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the control unit determines whether or not the terminal deviated from a sample anticipated path that consists of at least part of the anticipated path, and determines, when the terminal deviated from the sample anticipated path, that the terminal deviated from the entire anticipated path.

10. The apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the control unit computes an error range of the anticipated path based on the location information of the terminal collected on the predetermined cycle, and determines, when the current location of the terminal being outside the error range of the anticipated path, that the terminal deviated from the anticipated path.

11. The apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the error range of the anticipated path consists of a circle having a location of the terminal at a first time point as a center, and a difference between the location of the terminal at the first time point and a location of the terminal at a second time point that comes before the first time point as a radius.

12. The apparatus according to claim 8, further comprising an output unit configured to, output, when the terminal deviated from the anticipated path, information on deviation from the anticipated path.

13. The apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the control unit, re-infers, when the request for approval of the current location is sensed in response to the information on the deviation from the anticipated path of the terminal, the anticipated path based on the current location.

14. The apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the communication unit receives information on a user of the terminal, and the control unit infers the anticipated path based on the information on the user of the terminal.