Mobile Device Child Share Mode with Gesture Transition
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions
Solution Overview
Problem
Parents face challenges in allowing children to use mobile devices safely and securely, as children may inadvertently access restricted features and applications, such as email, internet browsing, and device settings, while using their devices.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a 'Kid's Corner' or child share mode on mobile devices that restricts access to certain applications and features, allowing parents to create a child-friendly space with limited functionality and content, while maintaining protection of other device settings and content, using a device share service that activates and deactivates this mode based on user input.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a parent passes their mobile phone to a child for entertainment, then the child can be entertained with games and media, but the child may inadvertently access restricted features and applications such as email, internet browsing, and device settings
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the mobile device interface into distinct modes: a default lock screen mode for adult users and a child lock screen mode for children. This segmentation allows the parent to provide full device access to the child while maintaining protection of sensitive features through mode separation. The child lock screen presents a simplified interface with restricted functionality, preventing accidental access to email, internet browsing, and device settings while still allowing entertainment access.
2Reliability
If the device displays a default lock screen requiring PIN code, then device security is maintained, but the child cannot access the device without the PIN code
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary mechanism - a gesture-based transition from the default lock screen to a child lock screen. Instead of requiring the child to know the PIN code (which would compromise security), the system provides an intermediate access path through specific gestures on the lock screen. This intermediary approach maintains device security by not exposing the PIN code while still enabling child access to appropriate features.
3Ease of operation
If the child can access the device without restrictions, then ease of use is improved, but access to sensitive content and settings cannot be prevented
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by creating a child lock screen with locally restricted properties. The child lock screen mode presents a customized interface where only appropriate applications and features are accessible to the child, while sensitive content and settings remain protected. This local quality approach allows the device to have different access characteristics in different modes - full access for adults, restricted access for children - without compromising overall device functionality or security.
Data Source
AI summary
In embodiments of mobile device child share, a mobile device can display a default device lock screen on an integrated display device, and receive an input effective to transition from the default device lock screen to display a child lock screen without receiving a PIN code entered on the default device lock screen. The mobile device can receive a second input effective to transition from the child lock screen to display a child space. The mobile device implements a device share service that activates a child share mode of the mobile device, and restricts functionality of device applications and access to device content based on designated restriction limits.