Patent ID: 8868036

Claim:
A programmable management method for a mobile device, the method comprising: proactively monitoring current and anticipated values of: user location, activity, proximity to other users or events or locations, planned activities, usage pattern, environmental sensory information, biological sensory information, or combinations thereof, wherein said proactive monitoring is performed continually while the device is in operation and without request for user input; generating a security level for the present time based on said monitoring; and upgrading said security level based on detecting a discrepancy between said current and anticipated values, failure to perform a planned activity, failure to correctly respond to alerts, owner's request or combinations thereof; and upon upgrading said security level, performing a multi-phase security handling procedure, wherein said procedure includes: a first security phase to establish a user identity via a user biological identification, user inquiry, user location identification, or combinations thereof; a second security phase including a device locking operation, a content backup operation, an owner notification operation via a predefined method, or combinations thereof; and a third security phase including notifying another party, tracking the location of mobile device, activity detected on the mobile device, proximity, environmental information, capturing user's biological information, user's photograph, reporting said information to owner or another party, or combinations thereof; wherein each of said security phases is followed by a next security phase upon failure to pass one or more of previously performed security checks of the first phase, a predetermined schedule, user's input or combinations thereof.