Remote Wireless Device Alert and Data Recovery System
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Solution Overview
Problem
Wireless communication devices often lack effective protection against data loss when stolen or lost, as users tend to neglect password-locked features due to inconvenience, leaving personal data vulnerable.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for remotely recovering, purging, and alerting a wireless device, which involves sending data messages to the device to execute recovery or purge operations, including locking, locating, and alerting functions, using a data recovery/purge application that matches identification data and performs requested actions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a password lock feature is enabled on the wireless device, then data security is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates due to additional steps required
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by automatically enabling the password lock feature before the user can access the device. When the device is activated, the password lock is automatically engaged, requiring the user to enter the password before accessing any functions or data. This preliminary security measure ensures data protection without requiring the user to manually configure security settings.
Solution Approach 2:
The password lock feature operates autonomously without requiring continuous user intervention. Once the password is set, the system automatically manages the locking and unlocking process based on device activation and password verification, reducing the operational burden on users while maintaining security.
2Ease of operation
If the wireless device is lost or stolen, then loss of data occurs, but user convenience is maintained by not requiring lock features
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically enables password protection upon device activation, performing the security action before the user can access data. This preliminary lock ensures that even if the device is lost or stolen, the data remains protected without requiring the user to remember to manually enable the lock feature.
Solution Approach 2:
The password lock feature provides preliminary anti-action by preventing unauthorized access to data before a loss event can occur. The automatic locking mechanism counteracts the potential harm of data theft by establishing security barriers in advance, protecting data even when the device is misplaced or stolen.
3Reliability
If remote alerting functionality is added to the wireless device, then device recovery capability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses an intermediary approach by implementing remote alerting functionality that communicates with external systems through the communications network. When the device is lost or stolen, the alerting function can send notifications to designated contacts or law enforcement, facilitating recovery without requiring complex onboard processing or additional hardware components within the device itself.
Data Source
AI summary
A wireless device may be alerted. For example, a message may be received from an invoking party and parsed for request data. Then a determination may be made as to whether identification data in the received message matches identification data resident in the wireless device. Next, the wireless device may be alerted when the received identification data matches the identification data resident in the wireless device and when the request data includes a request to alert the wireless device. A return message may be sent to the invoking party when the request data includes the request to alert the wireless device. The return message may indicate that the wireless device as been alerted. Alerting the wireless device may comprise causing the wireless device to perform a function configured to indicate to a subject that the wireless device has been lost.