Patent ID: 8874082

Claim:
A wireless communication device, comprising: a memory comprising protected data and a monitoring and lock management configuration; and a lock management engine resident in the memory and operable to monitor protected data access attempts, maintain a record of data access information, including access attempts to the protected data, based on execution of the monitoring and lock management configuration, send the data access information including the access attempts to the protected data to an external predetermined device; receive a control command from the external predetermined device in response to the data access information sent; and restrict access to the protected data according to the monitoring and lock management configuration and the control command received from the external predetermined device, wherein the configuration comprises at least one predetermined tracking parameter and a predetermined activity standard, and wherein the lock management engine is operable to record the data access information based upon the at least one predetermined tracking parameter and to compare the predetermined activity standard to the recorded data access information to determine an authorized data access attempt.