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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:
Jun. 30, 2020

Filed:

Jun. 20, 2019
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Lisa M. W. Bradley, Cary, NC (US);

Jonathan Dunne, Dungarvan, IE;

Liam Harpur, Skerries, IE;

Asima Silva, Holden, MA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 12/08 (2009.01); H04W 12/06 (2009.01); H04W 56/00 (2009.01); H04W 76/14 (2018.01); H04W 12/12 (2009.01); H04W 12/00 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 12/08 (2013.01); H04W 12/06 (2013.01); H04W 12/12 (2013.01); H04W 12/1206 (2019.01); H04W 56/002 (2013.01); H04W 76/14 (2018.02); H04W 12/00504 (2019.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods for securing access to a mobile device are disclosed. A method includes: synchronizing, by a first mobile computer device, with a remote mobile computer device; transmitting, by the first mobile computer device, a tone to a surface of an object; receiving, by the first mobile computer device, a compound resonance frequency from the object based on the transmitted tone; determining, by the first mobile computer device, the received compound resonance frequency conforms to a stored compound resonance frequency; unlocking, by the first mobile computer device, the first computer device based on the determining; and establishing, by the first mobile computer device, a group connection with the remote mobile computer device based on the unlocking.


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