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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2018
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Pasquale A. Catalano, Wallkill, NY (US);
Samuel R. Connor, Apex, NC (US);
Andrew G. Crimmins, Montrose, NY (US);
John Thomas Kinnear, Jr., LaGrangeville, NY (US);
Arkadiy O. Tsfasman, Wappingers Falls, NY (US);
John S. Werner, Fishkill, NY (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the invention are directed to a computer-implemented-method of operating a computing device. The computer-implemented method includes using a local touch-activated sensor of the computing device to receive an input signal, wherein the input signal has been generated at a remote touch-activated sensor based on capacitive coupling between the remote touch-activated sensor and a human, passed to the human using the capacitive coupling between the remote touch-activated sensor and the human, passed through the human, and transmitted from the human to the local touch-activated sensor of the computing device using a capacitive coupling between the human and the local touch-activated sensor. Functionality of the computing device is limited based at least in part on analyzing, using the computing device, at least one characteristic of the input signal.