18497664. SECURITY ENHANCEMENT FOR COMPUTING DEVICE STATE CHANGE (Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC)

SECURITY ENHANCEMENT FOR COMPUTING DEVICE STATE CHANGE

Organization Name

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Inventor(s)

Assaf Bar - Ness of Rehovot IL

Shoham Dekel of Tel Aviv IL

SECURITY ENHANCEMENT FOR COMPUTING DEVICE STATE CHANGE

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18497664 titled 'SECURITY ENHANCEMENT FOR COMPUTING DEVICE STATE CHANGE

Original Abstract Submitted

Systems and methods are disclosed herein for identifying a bypass of a computing device state change. In an example system, a determination is made that a computing component, such as an application executing on the computing device, is blocking a state change of the computing device. The state change includes various types of actions to protect the computing device, such as an automatic lock, logoff, standby mode change, or powering off change. An idle period of the computing device is detected. A proximity change of a user relative to the computing device is also detected. Based on the idle period and the proximity change, an action to remediate the blocking of the state change is performed, such as generating a notification associated with the blocking of the state change for providing to the user and/or automatically bypassing the blocking of the state change.