Patent ID: 9740845
Date: 2017-08-22
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L,H04W,Y02D

Claim:
1. A beacon-authenticated electronic device associated with a device user, the device comprising: a device housing; a thermal sensor at least partially within the device housing; a non-thermal signal detection system; and a device controller configured to authenticate the device user when the device is locked by, in order, sensing a human presence via the thermal sensor and based on sensing the human presence, activating the non-thermal signal detection system, detecting a non-thermal beacon via the non-thermal signal detection system, wherein the beacon contains an authentication string-code, determining whether the embedded authentication string-code is associated with the device user, and allowing the user access to the device when the authentication string-code is determined to be associated with the device user, and otherwise maintaining the device in the locked state.