Patent attributes
A method for preventing digital content misuse can include receiving, by a client-side computing device, digital content from a remote computing system; periodically presenting sonic signals to confirm that a mobile computing device of a user authorized with the client-side computing device is within a desired geographic distance of the client-side computing device; receiving, by the client-side computing device, a notification that a number of unconfirmed sonic signals exceeds a threshold number of allowable unconfirmed sonic signals, wherein the number of unconfirmed sonic signals indicates a number of sonic signals presented by the client-side computing device that the mobile computing device did not confirm detecting; and in response to receiving the notification that the number of unconfirmed sonic signals exceeds the threshold number of allowable unconfirmed sonic signals, executing a remedial action.
