US 11,995,162 B2
Method and apparatus for managing unlocking of an electronic device
Hari Krishnan Thiruvalli Venugopalan, Bangalore (IN); Mineni Niswanth Babu, Bangalore (IN); Gaurav Gupta, Delhi (IN); Sri Lakshmi Punuru, Bangalore (IN); Gopinath Chennakeswaran, Bangalore (IN); Ashish Kumar Singh, Bangalore (IN); Ravindra Kumar Mishra, Kormangala (IN); and Rajaram Hanumantacharya Naganur, Bangalore (IN)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Appl. No. 17/254,515
Filed by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
PCT Filed Jul. 18, 2019, PCT No. PCT/KR2019/008895
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 21, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/017903, PCT Pub. Date Jan. 23, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 201841026854 (IN), filed on Jul. 18, 2018; and application No. 201841026854 (IN), filed on Jul. 5, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0224372 A1, Jul. 22, 2021
Int. Cl. G06F 9/4401 (2018.01); G06F 1/3203 (2019.01); G06F 3/0484 (2022.01); G06F 9/445 (2018.01); G06F 21/31 (2013.01); G06F 21/32 (2013.01); G06F 21/45 (2013.01); H04L 9/32 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 21/32 (2013.01) [G06F 9/4418 (2013.01); G06F 21/45 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for managing unlocking of an electronic device, the method comprising:
receiving an unlocking input from a user;
authenticating the unlocking input;
generating a first pre-wakeup command of partially initializing a progress action for the electronic device, the progress action comprising launching a home screen of the electronic device;
initializing the progress action in parallel with the authenticating;
generating a second pre-wakeup command of whether to continue and complete the progress action or to retrogress the progress action in response to a completion of the authenticating of the unlocking input; and
determining whether to unlock the electronic device based on the second pre-wakeup command.