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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2019

Filed:

Oct. 06, 2015
Applicant:

Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., Singapore, SG;

Inventor:

William E. Atherton, Hillsborough, NC (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/00 (2013.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04W 12/06 (2009.01); G06F 21/32 (2013.01); G06F 21/40 (2013.01); H04M 1/725 (2006.01); H04W 4/02 (2018.01); H04W 12/08 (2009.01); H04W 88/02 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/0861 (2013.01); G06F 21/32 (2013.01); G06F 21/40 (2013.01); H04L 63/0492 (2013.01); H04L 63/0853 (2013.01); H04M 1/72577 (2013.01); H04W 12/06 (2013.01); G06F 2221/2111 (2013.01); H04L 63/107 (2013.01); H04M 1/72569 (2013.01); H04W 4/023 (2013.01); H04W 12/08 (2013.01); H04W 88/02 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method includes running an application on a mobile computing device, the mobile computing device accepting biometric input, and the mobile computing device enabling one or more function of the application only in response to the biometric input indicating that more than one person is present in the same location. Examples of suitable biometric input include a fingerprint, heartbeat, iris scan, facial recognition, and voice recognition. The biometric input may be provided directly to the mobile computing device from the more than one person present, or the biometric input may be provided by a first person to a first mobile computing device and by a second person to a second mobile computing device.


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