Patent Document ID: 9195815
Application ID: 13163050
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. An automated method for operating an information handling system, comprising: providing an information handling system including at least one processing device, the processing device configured to provide interactive access for a user to a default unrestricted computing environment that includes all software applications, content items, and setting options that are available on the information handling system; capturing image data of facial characteristics of a current user of the information handling system; providing the captured image data to the processing device; analyzing the captured image data with the processing device to determine at least one of an age, gender, or age and gender of the current user from detected features of the facial characteristics of the current user; wherein one of the facial characteristic features detected is an amount of skin wrinkling and wherein a plurality of skin wrinkling thresholds are used for characterizing a user into a predefined age category; wherein eyebrow thickness, hair length, and hair volume thresholds are used to characterize a user into a predefined gender category; and wherein the method further comprises using the processing device to determine if the determined age, gender, or age and gender of the current user matches at least one predefined user category from a plurality of categories; and then performing the following steps without requiring entry or recognition of a password or username for the current user: if the determined age, gender, or age and gender of the current user matches one of the plurality of predefined user categories then using the processing device to limit the interactive functionality of the information handling system by providing interactive access for the current user to a restricted computing environment associated with the matched user category that does not include all software applications, content items, and/or setting options that are available on the information handling system; and if the determined age, gender, or age and gender of the current user matches no predefined user category then using the processing device to provide interactive access for the current user to the default unrestricted computing environment that includes all software applications, content items, and setting options that are available on the information handling system.