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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:
May. 14, 2019

Filed:

Sep. 27, 2016
Applicant:

Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Rachana Bedekar, Culver City, CA (US);

Hai Zhao, Culver City, CA (US);

Jiajia Liu, Culver City, CA (US);

Assignee:

Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/55 (2013.01); G06F 21/60 (2013.01); G06F 3/0488 (2013.01); G06F 3/0484 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/554 (2013.01); G06F 3/04883 (2013.01); G06F 21/604 (2013.01); G06F 3/04842 (2013.01);
Abstract

The disclosed computer-implemented method for preventing unauthorized access to computing devices implementing computer accessibility services may include (i) detecting, at a client computing device, an instruction to perform a user interface action utilizing a computer accessibility service, (ii) determining, at the client computing device, whether the instruction was triggered based on a touch event initiated by a user of the client computing device, and (iii) performing, at the client computing device, a security action in response to determining that the instruction was not triggered based on a touch event initiated by the user. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.


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