Patent ID: 9332106
Filing Date: 2016-05-03
CPC Classification: G06F,G07C,H04M

Claim Text:
1. A method of access control in an electronic device, the method comprising: receiving input at the electronic device; when the input is received from a key of a keyboard, identifying a Unicode character that is associated with the key and adding the Unicode character that is associated with the key to a passcode; when the input is a gesture, identifying a Unicode character that is unused for any other character encoding and that cannot be typed using the keyboard, and adding the Unicode character that is unused for any other character encoding and that cannot be typed using the keyboard to the passcode; and determining whether the passcode matches a previously set passcode that includes the Unicode character that is unused for any other character encoding and that cannot be typed using the keyboard; and changing an access state at the electronic device when the passcode matches the previously set passcode.