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Granted Patent B2
US 10,136,326 · App. 15/844,954 · Granted Nov 20, 2018

Mobile device locking

Inventors: Lisa M. W. Bradley (Cary, NC); Jonathan Dunne (Dungarvan, IE); Liam Harpur (Skerries, IE); Asima Silva (Holden, MA)
Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
H04W12/08H04W56/002H04W76/14H04W12/06
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 10,136,326
App. No.
15/844,954
Granted
Nov 20, 2018
Kind
B2
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.

Claims (16)

1. A computer implemented method, comprising:

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 mobile 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,

wherein the synchronizing comprises: transmitting synchronization information to the remote mobile computer device; and receiving synchronization response data from the remote mobile computer device based on transmitting the synchronization information; and

the synchronization information comprises timing data of a time to transmit the tone, and wherein the synchronization response data comprises a verification of a receipt of the synchronization information and an acknowledgment that the remote mobile computer device will simultaneously trans it the tone.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the compound resonance frequency comprises a temporal period, a transmissibility, and a damping coefficient of the surface of the object.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the tone comprises one of a pulse of white noise and a pulse of a particular frequency.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein a speaker on the first mobile computer device transmits the tone.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein a microphone on the first mobile computer device receives the compound resonance signal.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the stored compound resonance frequency is a stored compound resonance frequency of a trusted object.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the determining comprises comparing a resonance frequency, temporal period, transmissibility, and damping coefficient of the received compound resonance frequency from the object to the stored resonance frequency, temporal period, transmissibility, and damping coefficient of the trusted object.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the unlocking is based on the compound resonance frequency from the object conforming to the stored compound resonance frequency of a trusted object.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 18, 2017
From: BRADLEY, LISA M.W.; DUNNE, JONATHAN; HARPUR, LIAM; SILVA, ASIMA
To: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 044423/0108 →
Continuity (2)
Continuation 15494982 · Apr 24, 2017
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