Patent ID: 9141150
Filing Date: 2015-09-22
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for controlling a security system comprising: authorizing a user in the security system; accessing user identification input rendered by the authorized user of the security system using a personal mobile device, including recording, using a tilt sensor of the personal mobile device, a first gesture signature input to authenticate the authorized user and enable the security system, and a second gesture signature input to authenticate the authorized user and disable the security system, the first and second gesture signature inputs having been defined by movement of the personal mobile device in a particular pattern using a set of user gestures performed by the authorized user of the security system while holding the personal mobile device; defining, based on the accessed user identification input, signatures of the authorized user of the security system, the defined signatures including a first gesture signature based on the recorded first gesture signature input rendered by the authorized user and a second gesture signature based on the recorded second gesture signature input rendered by the authorized user, each of the signatures comprising at least one of: storing, in a signature database, the defined signatures; subsequent to storing, in the signature database, the defined signatures, receiving user identification input rendered by an unauthenticated user using the personal mobile device by receiving, using the tilt sensor of the personal mobile device, a gesture authentication input rendered by an unauthenticated user moving the personal mobile device in a pattern that defines the gesture authentication input; based on receiving the user identification input rendered by the unauthenticated user using the personal mobile device, accessing, from the signature database, signature data corresponding to at least one of the defined signatures including the defined first gesture signature and the defined second gesture signature; comparing the accessed signature data with the received gesture authentication input rendered by the unauthenticated user moving the personal mobile device in the pattern that defines the gesture authentication input; based on comparison results, determining whether the received gesture authentication input rendered by the unauthenticated user moving the personal mobile device in the pattern that defines the gesture authentication input matches the defined first gesture signature or the defined second gesture signature; authenticating the unauthenticated user as the authorized user of the security system based on a determination that the received gesture authentication input rendered by the unauthenticated user moving the personal mobile device in the pattern that defines the gesture authentication input matches the defined first gesture signature or the defined second gesture signature; and in response to the authentication of the unauthenticated user as the authorized user of the security system: