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Patent No.:

US 11934509 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2024

Filed:

May. 24, 2021

Methods for maintaining user access to computing devices based on determining user control

Applicant:

Lookout, Inc., Boston, MA (US);

Inventors:

Kevin Patrick Mahaffey, San Francisco, CA (US);

Brian James Buck, Livermore, CA (US);

Assignee:

Lookout, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);

Attorneys:

Dergosits & Noah LLP

Michael E. Dergosits

Primary Examiner:

Don G Zhao

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/00 (2006.01); G06F 21/35 (2013.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01); H04W 12/06 (2021.01); H04W 12/64 (2021.01); H04R 1/10 (2006.01); H04W 12/61 (2021.01); H04W 84/18 (2009.01); H04W 88/02 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/35 (2013.01); H04L 63/0853 (2013.01); H04L 63/105 (2013.01); H04W 12/06 (2013.01); H04W 12/64 (2021.01); H04R 1/1008 (2013.01); H04R 1/1041 (2013.01); H04W 12/61 (2021.01); H04W 84/18 (2013.01); H04W 88/02 (2013.01);
Abstract

The method disclosed herein provides for performing user authentication and maintaining user authentication and access to a first device based on the user maintaining control of the first device. The continued control may be based on determining the user's continued possession of the first device, or determining an acceptable proximity of the user to the first device. The proximity of the user may be determined using a second device associated with the user, or sensors associated with the first device.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Mahaffey, Kevin. (2024). Methods for maintaining user access to computing devices based on determining user control (U.S. Patent No. 11934509). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/11934509

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