US 12,118,068 B2
Electronic device and method of performing authentication operation by electronic device
Soyoung Kim, Gyeonggi-do (KR); and Hyeonjeong Kim, Gyeonggi-do (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, (KR)
Appl. No. 17/421,143
Filed by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Gyeonggi-do (KR)
PCT Filed Jul. 2, 2021, PCT No. PCT/KR2021/008410
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jul. 7, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/010187, PCT Pub. Date Jan. 13, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0083202 (KR), filed on Jul. 7, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0146095 A1, May 11, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 21/32 (2013.01); G06F 9/451 (2018.01)
CPC G06F 21/32 (2013.01) [G06F 9/453 (2018.02)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic device comprising:
communication circuitry;
a processor; and
memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the electronic device to:
if a locked state of the electronic device and a first state of the electronic device in which a user is not holding the electronic device are identified, when a first user utterance is acquired that requests a task executable in an unlocked state of the electronic device, change an unlocking type of the electronic device to an unlocking type of an external device, based on information of the external device, the external device being communicatively connected to the electronic device through the communication circuitry,
unlock the electronic device, which is configured with the unlocking type of the external device, based on user authentication information acquired from the external device, and
execute the task corresponding to the first user utterance.