IP Library Granted Patent US 9,723,482
Granted Patent B2
US 9,723,482 · App. 14/332,718 · Granted Aug 1, 2017

Anti-theft protection method and device for cellular phone

Inventors: Qing Wang (Shenzhen, CN); Zhanghu Luo (Shenzhen, CN); Zefeng Huang (Shenzhen, CN); Haoran Guo (Shenzhen, CN); Quanhao Xiao (Shenzhen, CN); Yixia Yuan (Shenzhen, CN); Jiashun Song (Shenzhen, CN); Pengtao Li (Shenzhen, CN); Yunfeng Dai (Shenzhen, CN)
Assignee: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
H04W12/06H04W8/183H04W12/12H04W8/245
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Patent No.
US 9,723,482
App. No.
14/332,718
Granted
Aug 1, 2017
Kind
B2
Abstract

An anti-theft protection method and device for a cellular phone is provided. The method includes: judging whether the cellular phone satisfies a pre-set condition for starting an anti-theft mode, if so, starting the anti-theft mode; and transmitting anti-theft protection information to a designated contact to instruct the designated contact to perform anti-theft processing for the cellular phone. The device comprises a judgment module, a starting module, and a transmission module.

Claims (56)

1. An anti-theft protection method for a cellular phone, wherein the method comprises:

judging, by a device in the cellular phone, whether the cellular phone satisfies a pre-set condition for starting an anti-theft mode, on the condition that the cellular phone satisfies the condition, starting, by the device in a cellular phone, the anti-theft mode;

transmitting, by the device in the cellular phone, anti-theft protection information to a designated contact to instruct the designated contact to perform anti-theft processing for the cellular phone; wherein the anti-theft protection information provides preconfigured operations to be selected by the designated contact to generate an anti-theft protection instruction and indicates an instruction-transmission form for sending the generated anti-theft protection instruction, wherein the anti-theft protection instruction includes at least one of a password input box and a contact number to be displayed on the device in the cellular phone;

receiving, by the device in the cellular phone, the anti-theft protection instruction generated by the designated contact by selecting the operations indicated by the anti-theft protection information and sent by the designated contact via the instruction-transmission form; and

automatically executing, by the device in the cellular phone, the received anti-theft protection instruction.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein a process of judging whether the cellular phone satisfies a pre-set condition for starting an anti-theft mode specifically comprises:

judging whether the current user data matches pre-stored user data, on the condition that the current user data does not match the pre-stored user data, prompting a user to input an anti-theft instruction, and judging whether the user is legal according to the anti-theft instruction currently inputted by the user, and determining that the condition for starting the anti-theft mode is satisfied on the condition that the user is illegal; or

judging whether a remote instruction for starting an anti-theft mode has been received, and determining that the condition for starting the anti-theft mode is satisfied on the condition that the remote instruction for starting an anti-theft mode has been received.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein a process of starting the anti-theft mode specifically comprises:

performing a locking operation on the cellular phone to make the current user of the cellular phone user unable to operate the cellular phone.

4. The method according to claim 3 , wherein after the process of starting the anti-theft mode, the method further comprises:

obtaining an unlocking instruction inputted by the current user, judging whether the unlock instruction is correct, and exiting the anti-theft mode on the condition that the unlocking instruction is correct; or

receiving a remote unlocking instruction, and exiting the anti-theft mode in accordance with the remote unlocking instruction.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein after a process of starting the anti-theft mode, the method further comprises:

executing a pre-set anti-theft protection instruction.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the anti-theft protection information comprises the operations to be selected to generate the anti-theft protection instruction and the instruction-transmission form for sending the generated anti-theft protection instruction, and a process of the designated contact performing the anti-theft processing for the cellular phone specifically comprises:

the designated contact generating the anti-theft protection instruction by editing according to the operations selected from the anti-theft protection information, and transmitting through a device the anti-theft protection instruction to the cellular phone in the instruction-transmission form, and accordingly, upon receiving the anti-theft protection instruction, the cellular phone automatically executing the received anti-theft protection instruction.

7. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the anti-theft protection information comprises a web address, the website corresponding to the web address is adapted for saving the operations to be selected to generate the anti-theft protection instruction and the instruction-transmission form for sending the generated anti-theft protection instruction, and a process of the designated contact performing the anti-theft processing for the cellular phone specifically comprises:

the designated contact generating the anti-theft protection instruction by selecting the operations from the website, and transmitting through a device the anti-theft protection instruction to the cellular phone in the instruction-transmission form, and accordingly, upon receiving the anti-theft protection instruction, the cellular phone automatically executing the received anti-theft protection instruction.

8. The method according to claim 5 , wherein the anti-theft protection instruction specifically comprises at least one of:

an instruction for forcedly displaying a built-in content, an instruction for forcedly displaying a remote built-in content, an instruction for uploading user location information, an instruction for replacing SIM card to send a short message to a port, an instruction for automatically accepting an incoming call, an instruction for automatically shooting through a front camera and an instruction for deleting/backing up designated data.

9. A cellular phone, comprising:

an anti-theft device on the cellular phone including:

a judgment module, adapted for judging whether the cellular phone satisfies a pre-set condition for starting an anti-theft mode;

a starting module, adapted for starting the anti-theft mode on the condition that a judgment result of the judgment module is that the condition for starting the anti-theft mode is satisfied;

a transmission module, adapted for transmitting anti-theft protection information to a designated contact to instruct the designated contact to perform anti-theft processing for the cellular phone after the starting module starts the anti-theft mode; wherein the anti-theft protection information provides preconfigured operations to be selected by the designated contact to generate an anti-theft protection instruction and indicates an instruction-transmission form for sending the generated anti-theft protection instruction, wherein the anti-theft protection instruction includes at least one of a password input box and a contact number to be displayed on the device in the cellular phone; and

a module, adapted for receiving, by the device in the cellular phone, the anti-theft protection instruction generated by the designated contact by selecting the operations indicated by the anti-theft protection information and sent by the designated contact via the instruction-transmission form; and executing automatically, by the device in the cellular phone, the received anti-theft protection instruction.

10. The device according to claim 9 , wherein the judgment module specifically comprises:

a first judgment unit, adapted for judging whether the current user data matches pre-stored user data;

a prompting unit, adapted for prompting a user to input an anti-theft instruction on the condition that a judgment result of the first judgment unit is that the current user data does not match the pre-stored user data;

a second judgment unit, adapted for judging whether the user is legal according to the anti-theft instruction currently inputted by the user, and determining that the condition for starting the anti-theft mode is satisfied on the condition that the user is illegal; and

a third judgment unit, adapted for judging whether a remote instruction for starting an anti-theft mode has been received, and determining that the condition for starting the anti-theft mode is satisfied on the condition that the remote instruction for starting an anti-theft mode has been received.

11. The device according to claim 9 , wherein the starting module is specifically adapted for performing a locking operation on the cellular phone to make the current user of the cellular phone user unable to operate the cellular phone on the condition that a judgment result of the judgment module is that the condition for starting anti-theft mode is satisfied.

12. The device according to claim 11 , wherein the device further comprises: an anti-theft mode exiting module, wherein

the anti-theft mode exiting module is adapted for, after the starting module starts the anti-theft mode, obtaining an unlocking instruction inputted by the current user, judging whether the unlock instruction is correct, and exiting the anti-theft mode on the condition that the unlocking instruction is correct; or is adapted for, after the starting module starts the anti-theft mode, receiving a remote unlocking instruction, and exiting the anti-theft mode in accordance with the remote unlocking instruction.

13. The device according to claim 9 , wherein the device further comprises:

a first instruction execution module, adapted for executing a pre-set anti-theft protection instruction after the starting module starts the anti-theft mode.

14. The device according to claim 13 , wherein the anti-theft protection instruction specifically comprises at least one of:

an instruction for forcedly displaying a built-in content, an instruction for forcedly displaying a remote built-in content, an instruction for uploading user location information, an instruction for replacing SIM card to send a short message to a port, an instruction for automatically accepting an incoming call, an instruction for automatically shooting through a front camera and an instruction for deleting/backing up designated data.

15. The device according to claim 9 , wherein the anti-theft protection information comprises the operations to be selected to generate the anti-theft protection instruction and the instruction-transmission form for sending the generated anti-theft protection instruction, and the module comprises:

a second instruction execution module, adapted for, after the designated contact transmitting the anti-theft protection instruction through a second device to the cellular phone in the instruction-transmission form, wherein the anti-theft protection instruction is generated by the designated contact by editing according to the operations selected from the anti-theft protection information; receiving the anti-theft protection instruction, and automatically executing the received anti-theft protection instruction.

16. The device according to claim 9 , wherein the anti-theft protection information comprises a web address, the website corresponding to the web address is adapted for saving operations to be selected to generate the anti-theft protection instruction and the instruction-transmission form for sending the generated anti-theft protection instruction, the module comprises:

a second instruction execution module, adapted for, after the designated contact transmitting the anti-theft protection instruction through a second device to the cellular phone in the instruction-transmission form, wherein the anti-theft protection instruction is generated by the designated contact by selecting the operations from the website; receiving the anti-theft protection instruction, and automatically executing the received anti-theft protection instruction.

17. A non-transitory computer-readable medium, having a set of instructions stored thereon, wherein when the set of instructions is executed, a computer is enabled to perform an anti-theft protection method for a cellular phone, comprising:

judging whether the cellular phone satisfies a pre-set condition for starting an anti-theft mode, on the condition that the cellular phone satisfies the condition, starting the anti-theft mode;

transmitting anti-theft protection information to a designated contact to instruct the designated contact to perform anti-theft processing for the cellular phone; wherein the anti-theft protection information provides preconfigured operations to be selected by the designated contact to generate an anti-theft protection instruction and indicates an instruction-transmission form for sending the generated anti-theft protection instruction, wherein the anti-theft protection instruction includes at least one of a password input box and a contact number to be displayed on the device in the cellular phone;

receiving the anti-theft protection instruction generated by the designated contact by selecting the operations indicated by the anti-theft protection information and sent by the designated contact via the instruction-transmission form; and

automatically executing the received anti-theft protection instruction.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 17 , wherein a process of judging whether the cellular phone satisfies a pre-set condition for starting an anti-theft mode specifically comprises:

judging whether the current user data matches pre-stored user data, on the condition that the current user data does not match the pre-stored user data, prompting a user to input an anti-theft instruction, and judging whether the user is legal according to the anti-theft instruction currently inputted by the user, and determining that the condition for starting the anti-theft mode is satisfied on the condition that the user is illegal; or

judging whether a remote instruction for starting an anti-theft mode has been received, and determining that the condition for starting the anti-theft mode is satisfied on the condition that the remote instruction for starting an anti-theft mode has been received.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 17 , wherein a process of starting the anti-theft mode specifically comprises:

performing a locking operation on the cellular phone to make the current user of the cellular phone user unable to operate the cellular phone.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 17 , wherein

on the condition that the anti-theft protection information comprises the operations to be selected to generate the anti-theft protection instruction and the instruction-transmission form for sending the generated anti-theft protection instruction, a process of the designated contact performing the anti-theft processing for the cellular phone specifically comprises: the designated contact generating the anti-theft protection instruction by editing according to the operations selected from the anti-theft protection information, and transmitting through a device the anti-theft protection instruction to the cellular phone in the instruction-transmission form, and accordingly, upon receiving the anti-theft protection instruction, the cellular phone automatically executing the received anti-theft protection instruction; or

on the condition that the anti-theft protection information comprises a web address corresponding to the website adapted for saving operations to be selected to generate the anti-theft protection instruction and the instruction-transmission form for sending the generated anti-theft protection instruction, a process of the designated contact performing the anti-theft processing for the cellular phone specifically comprises: the designated contact generating the anti-theft protection instruction by selecting the operations from the website, and transmitting through a device the anti-theft protection instruction to the cellular phone in the instruction-transmission form, and accordingly, upon receiving the anti-theft protection instruction, the cellular phone automatically executing the received anti-theft protection instruction.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 16, 2014
From: WANG, QING; LUO, ZHANGHU; HUANG, ZEFENG; GUO, HAORAN; XIAO, QUANHAO; YUAN, YIXIA; SONG, JIASHUN; LI, PENGTAO; DAI, YUNFENG
To: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
Reel/Frame 033323/0637 →
Priority Claims (1)
CN 2012 1 0017606 · Jan 19, 2012 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTCN2013070717 · Jan 18, 2013
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