US 12,346,420 B2
Method for protecting software applications of electronic computing devices
Yen-Han Chou, Taipei (TW); and Yao-Sheng Chou, Taipei (TW)
Assigned to Decentralized Biotechnology Intelligence Co., Ltd., Taipei (TW)
Filed by Decentralized Biotechnology Intelligence Co., Ltd., Taipei (TW)
Filed on Nov. 1, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/516,651.
Claims priority of application No. 110110239 (TW), filed on Mar. 22, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0300590 A1, Sep. 22, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 21/32 (2013.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01); G06V 40/13 (2022.01)
CPC G06F 21/32 (2013.01) [G06F 21/6218 (2013.01); G06V 40/1306 (2022.01); G06V 40/1329 (2022.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for protecting software applications (Apps) of an electronic computing device having a display screen comprising the following steps:
arranging a fingerprint detection device at least partially overlapped on said display screen of said electronic computing device;
setting a verification area on said display screen by a process of said electronic computing device to lock or unlock said Apps or files been framed in said verification area and to protect said framed Apps or files from unauthorized retrieving, wherein said display screen graphically shows a boundary of said verification area after said verification area being activated, and wherein said boundary is hidden after said process being completed;
unlocking said display screen of said electronic computing device to provide double security protection, wherein said display screen is unlocked by fingerprint recognition, face recognition;
performing security protection on said Apps or files been framed by performing first individual fingerprint and finger gesture settings on specific Apps or files selected from said Apps or files been framed to lock said specific Apps or files;
performing a next level of security protection over confidential information/data of said framed Apps or files by performing second individual fingerprint and finger gesture settings, wherein said confidential information/data of said framed Apps or files include specific text paragraphs in email content or specific confidential area/columns of company report; and
wherein said steps of performing said first and said second fingerprint and finger gesture settings include to detect a combination of a gesture and a fingerprint.