Apple has been granted a patent for “User Equipment Configuration For Anti-Theft.”
In the patent Apple notes that someone’s electronic devices may be stolen without trace or proper measures to prevent possible theft. Under conventional circumstances, the current protection for the UE is to prevent the person who stole the device from flushing the current operating system.
Additionally, the UE can be easily switched off when it is stolen to stop reporting its location via subscriber identity module (SIM) card assuming the UE is not connected to other devices. However, these existing solutions fail to alert the user in a timely manner when the UE is stolen and consequently fails to prevent UE loss or theft.
Apple’s patent involves an apparatus of a user equipment (UE), that packs processing circuitry configured to perform an identification procedure for a user to unlock the UE, identify the user as a suspicious user attempting to unlock the UE and perform an operation in response to the identifying the suspicious user.
The patent also involves a method, including performing an identification procedure for a user to unlock a user equipment (UE), identifying the user as a suspicious user attempting to unlock the UE and performing an operation in response to the identifying the suspicious user.
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