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US 9949060
System allowing or disallowing access to resources based on sensor and state information
Current assignee: SENSAY TECHNOLOGIES LLC
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Patent summary
Title, assignee, inventors, filing/issue dates, abstract, and a plain-language overview of the claims.
Patent Overview: US9949060B2
Title: System allowing or disallowing access to resources based on sensor and state information
Patent number: US9949060B2 | Application: US15/611,820
Inventor: Shamim A. Naqvi
Current assignee (as listed): SENSAY TECHNOLOGIES LLC; Original assignee: Sensoriant Inc.
Key dates:
- Priority date: 2010-07-21
- Filing date: 2017-06-02
- Publication date: 2018-04-17
- Anticipated expiration: 2030-07-21
- Legal status: Active
Purpose and plain-language scope (from the supplied text):
The patent concerns controlling whether access to resources is allowed or disallowed based on sensor and state information. The listed prior-art keywords — "user device," "resource," "mobile device," "network," and "user" — suggest the subject matter involves mobile or user devices, networks, and access decisions. The granted classification categories reinforce this: access security and access restriction (H04W12/08, H04W48/02), access restriction based on user or terminal location or mobility data (H04W48/04), location-based services (H04W4/02, H04W4/021, H04W4/029), and, on the commerce side, transaction verification (G06Q20/401) including fraud or risk assessment (G06Q20/4016), along with mobile payment aspects (G06Q20/32, G06Q20/322, G06Q20/3223, G06Q20/3224).
Not established by this excerpt:
The supplied text contains no claim language, no detailed description, no abstract, and no explicit statement of the technical problem or inventive mechanism. Therefore this overview cannot state what specifically is claimed as novel, what sensors are used, how "state information" is defined, what resources are governed, or how the allow/disallow determination is made. The excerpt also notes a family litigation reference (Florida Southern District Court) but provides no litigation details, and lists several assignments/reassignments, including a security agreement and termination; none of these are analyzed here.
Source: https://patents.google.com/patent/[US9949060](/patent/US9949060)/en
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