Patent Document ID: 8174503
Application ID: 12122667
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method of a mobile device comprising: defining a tactile force on a touch screen of a mobile device without a visual aid; wherein the tactile force may consist of an application within a designated input region of the touch screen of an arbitrarily complex spatial and temporal pattern of tactile forces; recognizing an another tactile force on the touch screen without a visual aid as an unlocking gesture; wherein a variable location on the touch screen of the mobile device is designated as available to receive the another tactile force; wherein the another tactile force is algorithmically determinable to be the unlocking gesture when recognized on the touch screen of the mobile device; wherein a total time to create the another tactile force is within a permitted amount of time when determining whether it is the unlocking gesture; storing the unlocking gesture to a memory of the mobile device; determining that the another tactile force is placed at multiple distinct locations on the touch screen without a visual aid while recognizing the another tactile force as the unlocking gesture, wherein the multiple distinct locations are simultaneously and serially placed; associating the another tactile force on the touch screen without a visual aid with the unlocking gesture; wherein the another tactile force applied on the designated area of the touch screen receptive to the tactile force is in a variable location within the designated area of the touch screen receptive to the tactile force; wherein the another tactile force is applied without a visual aid on the designated area which comprises the touch screen that is receptive to the tactile force enclosed within a touch insensitive enclosure of the mobile device; wherein the another tactile force is within an acceptable range of associability with the unlocking gesture when associating the another tactile force with the unlocking gesture; and transforming the mobile device from an initial state to an unlocked state based on the association between the another tactile force and the unlocking gesture.