Patent ID: 8869305

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for implementing password-protection policies based on physical locations of mobile devices, at least a portion of the method being performed by a computing device comprising at least one processor, the method comprising: maintaining a set of password-protection policies configured to provide varying degrees of security to a mobile device at different physical locations, the set of password-protection policies comprising: at least one password-protection policy that corresponds to at least one untrusted physical location; at least one password-protection policy that corresponds to at least one semi-trusted physical location; at least one password-protection policy that corresponds to at least one trusted physical location; receiving, from a user of the mobile device, input directed to associating a password-protection policy from the set of password-protection policies with a Bluetooth headset associated with the user of the mobile device; identifying, within a database that stores the set of password-protection policies, the password-protection policy based at least in part on the input received from the user of the mobile device; updating the database that stores the set of password-protection policies to indicate that the mobile device is to implement the identified password-protection policy when the mobile device is connected to the Bluetooth headset associated with the user of the mobile device: detecting the Bluetooth headset associated with the user of the mobile device; determining that the mobile device is connected to the Bluetooth headset associated with the user of the mobile device; in response to determining that the mobile device is connected to the Bluetooth headset associated with the user of the mobile device: searching the database that stores the set of password-protection policies for the password-protection policy that the mobile device is to implement when connected to the Bluetooth headset; identifying, based on the search of the database, the password-protection policy that the mobile device is to implement when connected to the Bluetooth headset; implementing the identified password-protection policy while the mobile device is connected to the Bluetooth headset.