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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:
Oct. 17, 2017

Filed:

Aug. 05, 2015
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Maggie Phung, Round Rock, TX (US);

Eric J. Rozner, Austin, TX (US);

Chin Ngai Sze, Austin, TX (US);

Zhennan Wang, Austin, TX (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 17/00 (2015.01); H04B 1/3888 (2015.01); H04B 17/10 (2015.01); H04W 88/02 (2009.01); H04B 17/18 (2015.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/3888 (2013.01); H04B 17/104 (2015.01); H04B 17/18 (2015.01); H04W 88/02 (2013.01);
Abstract

Provided are techniques for automatically protecting portable and wearable electronic devices from potential hazards by predicting when such hazards may occur. Techniques may include monitoring a plurality of sensors on the mobile computing device; receiving, on the mobile computing device, context data from a plurality of context-service applications; selecting a set of device-protection policies based upon an availability of the plurality of sensors and the plurality of context-service applications, wherein the set of device-protection policies are configured to determine a level of risk to the mobile computing device based on sensor data received from the plurality of sensors and the context data; applying the sensor data and the context data to the set of device-protection policies to generate the level of risk; and triggering a self-protection action if the level of risk exceeds a pre-determined threshold level of risk.


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